• A maintenance supervisor must take responsibility for his or her surroundings.construction worker image by dinostock from Fotolia.com
  
  Chaos can affect the entire organization, creating an unproductive and unprofitable work environment. A company's top goal should aim toward high productivity and customer satisfaction. Therefore, a maintenance room supervisor must take responsibility for the control of the environment, including all its operations and personnel. This demands the execution of several responsibilities and duties in order to successful.
  
  

Maintain the Safe Operation of Facilities

• A maintenance room supervisor is responsible for the smooth operation of all maintenance room facilities. He must be able to set up and operate and monitor all mechanisms. This includes inspecting facilities for problems and taking corrective actions to prevent further problems. In addition, he must not only train his staff to safely operate the facilities but they must also be able to seek the appropriate help when things break down. Maintaining a good work environment will help facilitate productivity as well as successful project completion.
  
  

Supervise, Motivate and Train Diverse Staff

• A maintenance room supervisors not only must direct and motivate staff, but also he or she must be willing to engage people with a variety of social, ethnic and educational backgrounds. She must know how to communicate her thoughts or feelings with sensitivity when teaching or training individuals from other cultures. This ability demands that supervisors learn about the behavior and mannerism of the diverse groups in order to effectively communicate with them. The inability to communicate with diverse work groups will interfere with the quality of the training and productivity.
  
  

Encourage Effective Working Relationships

• Maintenance room supervisors must monitor the interactions and attitudes of all staff in order to create good working relationships. People working together in harmony are able to communicate effectively with one another regarding the duties and responsibilities of the job. This activity increases the success of an organization. Bad working relationships interfere with productivity. Because of bad relationships, employees may avoid the communication necessary for successful completion of tasks and projects. Therefore, maintenance room supervisors must often orchestrate meetings where employees can come together and resolve conflicts and grievances.
  
  

Execute Disciplinary Action

• A maintenance room supervisor must be willing to discipline every staff member that is not conforming to company's policies. This may include those who are tardy, excessively absent, threatening, or simply unproductive. Employees may have issues, both personal and work-related, that could interfere with their performance on the job. Maintenance room supervisors must engage these individuals professionally and suggest ways to resolve the problem. Some solutions may involve the need for counseling, especially when dealing with such issues as alcoholism, divorce, anger and other abuses that may interfere with an individual's alertness on the job.