Maintenance Supervisor (Mech/Electrical) – FMCG Plant

Verian Business Solutions Ltd; Dudley; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Canteen

Company events

Company pension

Employee discount

Health & wellbeing programme

On-site parking

Sick pay

Job summary

Verian Business Solutions Ltd is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor Engineer (Mechanical & Electrical) for a FMCG manufacturing site in Dudley. You will drive day-to-day maintenance, lead a shift team, and ensure PPM routines minimise downtime while delivering improvements and cost savings.

Working with the Operations Director and Maintenance Leadership, you will optimise line performance, ensure health and safety compliance, manage reactive and planned tasks, and develop the maintenance function

Qualifications

• Engineering qualification (HNC/HND min. — Mechanical or Electrical).
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in food manufacturing.
• Proven leadership and shift management capability.
• CMMS competency: work order management and reporting.
• Strong fault-finding and RCA skills (5-Why, Fishbone).
• Food manufacturing environment experience preferred.
• PTW knowledge and H&S compliance awareness.
• LEAN/continuous improvement mindset.
• MS Office and CMMS system literacy.
• Planning and organising skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor line performance; prioritise maintenance response and record findings, CMMS
• Ensure maintenance and operational ownership from handover to handover
• Allocate engineers to planned and reactive tasks at shift start
• Manage shift attendance; escalat absences to TEM immediately
• Enforce PTW compliance for all shift activities
• Coordinate with incoming Lead Engineer during handover overlap
• Lead RCA for all repeat and high-impact failures, record such scenarios within 24hrs.
• Apply 5-Why / Fishbone methodology as standard investigation tool
• Track corrective actions to closure; share learnings across shifts
• Conduct daily toolbox talk at shift start — maximum 10 minutes
• Cover safety topics, PPM priorities, near misses and RCA learnings
• Record attendance and topics in toolbox talk log e

Skills

Leadership

Fault-finding

RCA

LEAN/continuous improvement mindset

Planning and organising

Education

Engineering qualification (HNC/HND min. — Mechanical or Electrical)

Tools

CMMS

MS Office

Job description

Verian Business Solutions Ltd is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor Engineer (Mechanical & Electrical) for a FMCG manufacturing site in Dudley. You will drive day-to-day maintenance, lead a shift team, and ensure PPM routines minimise downtime while delivering improvements and cost savings.

Working with the Operations Director and Maintenance Leadership, you will optimise line performance, ensure health and safety compliance, manage reactive and planned tasks, and develop the maintenance function