Maintenance Supervisor - Building Materials

Worthwhile Recruiting; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Worthwhile Recruiting invites applications for a Maintenance Supervisor role at an industrial site in Sydney. You will own day‑to‑day maintenance coordination and budget performance, driving cost savings while safeguarding safety, reliability and production needs.

You will supervise maintenance teams, manage overtime, and lead prestarts, work orders and contractor coordination to deliver measurable improvements.

Qualifications

• A relevant mechanical or electrical trade qualification, or engineering qualification, backed by substantial industrial maintenance experience.
• Experience supervising maintenance teams in manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Proven ownership of maintenance budgets and delivering measurable cost improvements.
• Strong knowledge of electrical/mechanical maintenance, asset reliability and shutdown coordination.
• Proficient in CMMS; able to manage work orders, preventive maintenance schedules and backlog.

Responsibilities

• Monitor maintenance expenditure against budget, investigate variances and implement corrective actions.
• Analyse overtime, call-outs, labour allocation and work orders to identify unnecessary expenditure.
• Introduce overtime pre-approval and verify timesheets against completed maintenance activities.
• Deliver a findings report and savings plan within four weeks.
• Provide weekly cost and performance updates with monthly budget and risk reporting.
• Agree weekly maintenance schedules with Production and coordinate trades and contractors.
• Improve preventive maintenance compliance and reduce reactive maintenance.
• Prioritise maintenance backlogs by equipment criticality.
• Lead daily maintenance prestarts, allocate work and set expectations.
• Maintain safe isolation, lockout/tagout, permits to work and contractor management.

Skills

Maintenance budgeting

Team supervision

CMMS

Cost analysis

Electrical maintenance

Mechanical maintenance

Education

Trade qualification (mechanical or electrical)

Engineering qualification

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

Maintenance Supervisor - Building Materials

Reporting to the Site Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of day-to-day maintenance coordination and financial performance within your delegated authority at an industrial manufacturing site. A key priority will be understanding what is driving expenditure, challenging avoidable costs and implementing practical controls around overtime, work allocation and scheduling. You will need to demonstrate previous success managing maintenance budgets and delivering measurable savings while maintaining safety, equipment reliability and production requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor maintenance expenditure against budget, investigate variances and implement corrective actions


• Analyse overtime, call-outs, labour allocation and work orders to identify unnecessary expenditure


• Introduce consistent overtime pre-approval and verify timesheets against completed maintenance activities


• Deliver a findings report and practical savings plan within the first four weeks


• Provide weekly cost and performance updates, supported by monthly budget, savings and risk reporting


• Agree weekly maintenance schedules with Production and coordinate trades, contractors and vendors


• Improve preventive maintenance compliance and reduce reliance on reactive maintenance


• Prioritise maintenance backlogs according to equipment criticality and production needs


• Lead daily maintenance prestarts, allocate work and set clear expectations


• Maintain strong standards for safe isolation, lockout/tagout, permits to work and contractor management

About you

• A relevant mechanical or electrical trade qualification, or engineering qualification, backed by substantial industrial maintenance experience


• Demonstrated experience supervising maintenance teams in manufacturing or industrial environments


• Proven ownership of maintenance budgets, including investigating overspend, controlling overtime and delivering measurable cost improvements


• Practical knowledge of mechanical and electrical maintenance, equipment reliability and shutdown coordination


• Strong CMMS experience, including work orders, preventive maintenance schedules and backlog management


• Confidence analysing maintenance costs and timekeeping data using Excel


• Clear communication, sound judgement and the ability to hold people accountable while maintaining productive working relationships