Engineering Supervisor

Radar Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Radar Recruitment is seeking an experienced Supervisor/Team Leader to provide hands-on support to shift teams while driving reliability and long‑term asset care on site. In the absence of the Manager you will lead a small team across early and late shifts (6am–2pm and 2pm–10pm) on a Mon–Fri pattern with cycle of two weeks each.

The role suits someone with strong leadership, exposure to reliability, and a track record in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Formal leadership capability with experience in shift supervision.
• Background in maintenance planning and asset care.
• Exposure to reliability concepts in manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop maintenance plans and asset care on site with safety as priority.
• Lead engineering teams on shifts to hit targets and coordinate with production.
• Create and implement training plans for skill coverage across shifts.
• Complete and track work orders in the CMMS system.
• Raise spares requisitions through the Engineering Administrator.
• Complete PPM tasks and report on results.
• Allocate key roles (Duty Holder, First Aider, Fire Marshall) and participate as needed.
• Maintain site critical infrastructure and supervise contractors.
• Identify and carry out continuous improvement activities.

Skills

Leadership & team supervision

Maintenance planning

Reliability exposure

CMMS experience

Education

NVQ Level 3 / equivalent

Electrical/Mechanical qualification

Job description

This role is a mix of having hands‑on responsibility in providing support to the shift teams coupled with improving reliability and long term asset care on site. In the absence of the Manager, you will have direct responsibility for a team of technicians. Please note that this role works on a Mon-Fri basis with shifts rotating between earlies and lates (6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm) - for example, 2 weeks of earlies, then 2 weeks of lates.

This would be a fantastic opportunity for either an experienced Supervisor/Team Leader who has had good exposure to reliability and leading a small team, or an existing Multi Skilled Engineer/Reliability Engineer who is looking for their first formal step into a supervisory/leadership role.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing maintenance plans and asset care packages, with safety as top priority.
• Managing engineering teams on a shift basis, collaborating with production to hit shift targets.
• Developing and implementing training plans to ensure a mix of skills and coverage across the shift teams.
• Completing and tracking work orders on the CMMS system
• Raising requisitions for spares through the Engineering Administrator.
• Completing PPM tasks and reporting
• Allocation of key team roles such as Duty Holder, First Aider, Fire Marshall (some of which you will be doing yourself)
• Maintaining site critical infrastructure
• Supervising contractors on site
• Identifying and carrying out continuous improvement activities.

We are looking for:

• Electrical/Mechanical qualified - minimum of NVQ Level 3 (NVQ 3, ONC, OND, HNC, HND, Degree or equivalent)
• Formally electrically qualified (City and Guilds/18th edition etc)
• Experience in a fast paced manufacturing environment (food, drink, brewery, pharmaceutical, plastics, packaging, automated warehouses etc)
• Safety literate and conscious (qualifications preferred)
• Good leadership ability/potential with a can-do attitude and motivational approach.
• Good presentation skills, capable of presenting asset care and reliability plans to Senior Management.