Maintenance Supervisor

Biffa Waste Services; Seaham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Maintenance Supervisor in Seaham, where your expertise will help ensure optimal performance of essential equipment. This role involves supervising a dedicated maintenance team, conducting fault finding, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. With a competitive salary and a commitment to ongoing career development, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a sustainable future while enjoying a supportive work environment. Embrace the challenge of enhancing maintenance services and making a real difference in waste management.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Ongoing career development

Retail and leisure discounts

Holiday and travel discounts

Bike to work scheme

Qualifications

• Previous supervisory experience in engineering maintenance.
• Experience working in an engineering/maintenance team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct fault finding and repairs on process and support equipment.
• Maintain plant equipment to ensure maximum efficiency.
• Support planning and organization of routine shutdowns.

Skills

Team supervision

Fault finding

Maintenance engineering

Health and Safety compliance

Education

Maintenance Engineering qualification (Electrical or Mechanical)

Job description

Help us make a difference as a Maintenance Supervisor in Seaham.

4 on 4 off, 12-hour day shifts from 0600 to 1800, totaling 42 hours per week.

Salary: £21.61 per hour + 2% shift allowance.

A quick look at the role

Supervise maintenance team members and support the Maintenance Manager. Ensure fault finding and repairs are prioritized and responded to within acceptable timeframes. Assist the team in maintaining production and ancillary equipment, keeping them in optimal condition. Conduct routine maintenance inspections as directed, report defects, and ensure timely repairs. Support and collaborate with production and engineering teams to improve maintenance services. Oversee spare parts maintenance, ensuring OEM-recommended critical spares and service parts are available and correctly stored in the MRO stores.

Your core responsibilities

• Conduct fault finding on process, ancillary, and support equipment, and perform necessary repairs to resolve breakdowns.
• Maintain plant equipment daily to ensure maximum efficiency and meet business KPIs.
• Assist engineering with process modifications, performance improvements, decommissioning redundant equipment, and installing new equipment.
• Ensure compliance with all Health and Safety legislation and maintain safe working practices.
• Support planning and organization of annual and routine shutdowns, ensuring availability of all necessary maintenance materials and spare parts.

Our essential requirements

• Maintenance Engineering qualification (Electrical or Mechanical)
• Previous supervisory experience in engineering maintenance
• Experience working in an engineering/maintenance team
• Ability to supervise a team

Desirable

• IOSH Managing Safely certification
• Experience in a recycling environment
• Knowledge of the recycling industry

And here's why you'll love it at Biffa

• Competitive salary
• Ongoing career development, training, and coaching
• Generous pension scheme
• Retail and leisure discounts
• Holiday and travel discounts
• Bike to work scheme

Changing the way people think about waste

At Biffa, we love working with waste—turning it into sustainable power, recycling innovatively, and keeping streets clean. Our 11,500+ colleagues nationwide trust us to provide rewarding careers that are challenging but never dull.

Dedicated to diversity

Inclusivity is core to our culture. We believe diverse ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds foster a creative, effective environment that benefits our communities, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders. We champion diversity, equity, and inclusion at every level.