Data Centre Operations Supervisor – MAC & Cabling, 24/7

Eligo Recruitment; Manchester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Eligo Recruitment is partnering with a growing technology and infrastructure business to hire an experienced Data Centre Supervisor in Manchester. You will lead MAC and BAU activities, manage structured cabling, and coordinate with clients and vendors to keep the data centre running 24/7.

This hands-on supervisory role requires strong leadership, fault finding, and incident management skills, with a 4-on/4-off, 12-hour shift pattern. Banking/enterprise DC experience is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Data Centre MAC environment and BAU tasks.
• Proven supervisory or team-leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of data centre infrastructure and cabling standards.

Responsibilities

• Supervise MAC and BAU activities across the data centre.
• Manage structured cabling, installation, testing, fault finding and decommissioning.
• Allocate workloads, manage resources and cover shifts.
• Coordinate with clients, internal teams and third-party vendors.
• Monitor SLA performance and escalate issues.
• Support incident management and first-line troubleshooting.
• Maintain H&S, quality and client standards.
• Manage documentation, reporting, assets and ticketing systems.
• Support projects from design through to handover.

Skills

Data Centre MAC

Supervisory leadership

Structured cabling

Ticketing & asset mgmt

SLA monitoring

Job description

Eligo Recruitment is partnering with a growing technology and infrastructure business to hire an experienced Data Centre Supervisor in Manchester. You will lead MAC and BAU activities, manage structured cabling, and coordinate with clients and vendors to keep the data centre running 24/7.

This hands-on supervisory role requires strong leadership, fault finding, and incident management skills, with a 4-on/4-off, 12-hour shift pattern. Banking/enterprise DC experience is advantageous.