Engineering Supervisor

Radar Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Radar Recruitment is seeking an experienced Supervisor/Team Leader to manage a team of technicians on a rotating Mon-Fri shift (6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm) with two weeks of each pattern. The role combines hands-on support on the shop floor with driving reliability and asset care initiatives.

The successful candidate will lead maintenance activities, develop training plans, manage work orders in CMMS, and coordinate with production to meet targets.

Qualifications

• Electrical/Mechanical qualification at NVQ3 level or equivalent
• City & Guilds/18th Edition qualification held
• Experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Safety literate and conscious
• Strong leadership potential with a proactive attitude
• Ability to present asset care and reliability plans to Senior Management

Responsibilities

• Develop maintenance plans and asset care packages with safety as a priority
• Lead engineering teams on a shift basis and coordinate with production to hit targets
• Design and implement training plans for skills coverage across shifts
• Complete and track work orders on the CMMS system
• Raise spare part requisitions via Engineering Administrator
• Carry out PPM tasks and report on progress
• Allocate key roles such as Duty Holder and First Aider
• Maintain site critical infrastructure and supervise contractors on site
• Identify and implement continuous improvement activities

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Education

NVQ Level 3

City & Guilds 18th Edition

Tools

CMMS

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.