Maintenance Supervisor

GE Transport; Northampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent transportation company located in Northampton seeks a Maintenance Supervisor to lead their maintenance team. The role involves ensuring machinery and facilities are well-maintained, scheduling tasks, and overseeing external contractors. Ideal candidates will have supervisory experience and knowledge of maintenance processes. This position offers opportunity for professional growth in a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising maintenance teams.
• Strong organizational skills necessary for task delegation.
• Proficiency in machinery maintenance required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance team to ensure equipment is operational.
• Schedule and delegate maintenance tasks effectively.
• Monitor team performance to maintain productivity.

Skills

Supervisory history

Organizational skills

Machinery maintenance processes and procedures

Building maintenance and repair knowledge

Control of external suppliers and contractors

Presentation of data

Capital expenditure forming

Job description

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who will you be working with?

You will be supervising the Maintenance team, supporting the business to ensure that the various machinery and facilities around the site are kept in good working order. You will work closely with the operations team to ensure we maintain the maximum uptime with minimum disruption.

How will you make a difference?

Using your skills, you will support and develop the maintenance team ensuring that they have the correct knowledge and skills required to maintain and repair our equipment and facilities. Controlling any scheduled maintenance along with ensuring that we have the correct number of critical spares.

You will also be responsible for any outside contractors, the site security and fire systems, working closely with EHS to ensure that we conform to any building and site safety legislation.

What do we want to know about you?

• Supervisory history
• Organizational skills
• Experience of machinery maintenance process and procedures, essential
• Knowledge of building maintenance and repair, essential
• Control of external suppliers and contractors, essential
• Presentation of data
• Capital expenditure forming

What will your typical day look like?

• Lead the maintenance team to ensure that the business equipment and property stays in good working order.
• Schedule and delegate tasks amongst the maintenance team.
• Monitor the team’s performance to ensure that they remain productive and safe.
• Carry out problem solving activities to ensure that we can maintain maximum uptime of our equipment.

Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more! http://www.WabtecCorp.com

Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:

Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.

To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles… People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

About Us

Want to move the world? Want to innovate and bring that innovation to life?

At Wabtec, we are in the business of realizing potential – that of the transportation industry, and yours!

Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective success across the vibrant portfolios of Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, we offer employees hands-on opportunities all over the world to shape the future of transportation – as well as their own. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, leveraging our digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services to create transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Along with our industry-leading portfolio of products and solutions for the rail and transit industries, Wabtec is a leader in mining, marine, and industrial solutions.

Wabtec celebrates thinkers and doers. Our values included in the About Us page are rooted in innovation, collaboration, inclusiveness, and continuous improvement to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. Whether your talents lie in digital solution development, next-gen manufacturing, advanced service delivery, or the spectrum of business functions that support them, Wabtec literally has a world of opportunity for you across our global network.

Our employees are the architects of the future. Where will you be tomorrow?