Maintenance Supervisor - Resistors

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Role Overview and Responsibilities

Role Purpose The Equipment Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for the day-to-day supervision and coordination of maintenance activities across the Bedlington Resistors business unit.

The role ensures that production equipment, plant infrastructure and site utilities are maintained safely, effectively and in accordance with agreed maintenance plans and operational priorities. The Maintenance Supervisor provides direct leadership to the maintenance technicians and apprentices, allocating work, coordinating the response to equipment breakdowns and ensuring planned maintenance is completed to the required safety, quality and technical standards.

Working closely with the Equipment Maintenance Manager and Manufacturing teams, the role supports equipment availability, reliability and operational performance. The Maintenance Supervisor promotes a proactive maintenance culture through effective frontline leadership, disciplined use of the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS), structured problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Role Boundaries The Equipment Maintenance Manager retains accountability for maintenance strategy, budgets, lifecycle planning, capital expenditure, supplier strategy, departmental KPIs and the overall capability and performance of the maintenance function.

The Equipment Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for translating those plans into safe and effective daily execution, supervising the technicians and apprentices, coordinating breakdown response, controlling work quality and ensuring maintenance priorities are completed and accurately recorded.

Key Accountabilities Daily Maintenance Supervision Supervise and coordinate the daily activities of maintenance technicians and apprentices.

Allocate planned, reactive and improvement work according to production priorities, technical capability and available resources.

Conduct daily maintenance team briefings, ensuring that priorities, safety requirements and outstanding equipment issues are clearly communicated.

Monitor the progress of maintenance activities and address delays, resource constraints or technical issues promptly.

Coordinate the maintenance response to equipment breakdowns, ensuring safe and timely fault-finding and repair.

Escalate significant equipment failures, operational risks and resource concerns to the Equipment Maintenance Manager.

Ensure effective handovers between technicians, shifts and manufacturing teams.

Provide practical technical support and guidance during complex breakdowns and maintenance activities.

Preventative and Reactive Maintenance Ensure preventative and predictive maintenance activities are completed safely, on time and to the required standard.

Coordinate breakdown repairs to minimise production downtime and operational disruption.

Review outstanding and overdue maintenance work and agree recovery priorities with the Equipment Maintenance Manager.

Support the development and improvement of preventative maintenance instructions, schedules and inspection routines.

Ensure temporary repairs are properly controlled, documented and followed by appropriate permanent corrective action.

Verify that equipment is safe, functional and correctly handed back to Manufacturing following maintenance work.

Identify recurring equipment problems and initiate structured root cause analysis.

Support the implementation and verification of corrective actions arising from equipment failures.

Team Leadership and Development Provide clear day-to-day leadership, direction and support to maintenance technicians and apprentices.

Set expectations for safety, attendance, housekeeping, workmanship, communication and personal accountability.

Monitor standards of work and provide timely, constructive feedback…