Engineering Supervisor

Position: Engineering Supervisor (Permanent)
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Engineering Supervisor

Do you enjoy working with a down to earth, supportive team but at the same time be relied on to use your own initiative to find solutions to problem out in the field? Our Field teams are critical in the delivery of our contracts, whether that is delivering or supervising maintenance, installation, cabling or civils works. Help build and keep the nation's critical infrastructure connected and protected 24/7.

Reporting into the Regional Manager, the Traffic Maintenance (Engineering) Supervisor will lead a small team of Engineers who are responsible for delivering our maintenance contracts with Newcastle Council.

This role require travel in the North East (Newcastle and surrounding areas) on a daily basis.

What you'll do:

Lead a small team of Trainee Traffic Maintenance Engineers
Manage controller builds and liaising with engineering team on configurations
Responsible for implementing and maintaining test rigs
Technical lead in the depo, coordinating new technologies before they go to street
Provide support to the Contract Managers to ensure that the contracts are delivering on time and within budget
Working alone and with colleagues to the highest standards to maintain signals equipment
To reduce the overall fault rates within our traffic signals maintenance contracts
Supporting Contract Managers to ensure engineers have correct stock on vans to complete first time fix
Liaising with maintenance engineers and Contract Manager to ensure repeat fault rate is kept to a minimum Who you are:

You will have previous experience in a Supervisor / Team Leader role, ideally gained within the Traffic / Highways / Telecoms / Utilities industry. You are a motivational people manager, with the ability to get the best out of your team whilst ensuring health & safety, compliance and customer satisfaction are at the heart of what you do.

Key Requirements:

Electrical Engineering experience is beneficial
Knowledge around traffic signal equipment specifications is highly desirable
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to act under pressure and provide good customer satisfaction.
Qualifications such as NVQ Level 3 in Highways Electrical, City & Guilds diploma (or HNC/HND) in Electrical / Electronic Engineering or BSth Edition are desirable.
Full driving license
IT skills - Proficient in Excel / word / RMS systems

What we offer:

A career at Telent can span many sectors, roles, technologies and clients giving you the opportunity to develop, learn new skills and make an impact. We are growing and we rely on our committed Team to deliver.

We nurture the talent that makes this happen, by our on-going commitment to creating an inclusive culture that respects and values difference, that celebrates diverse ideas. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work.

The additional benefits with this role:

Company Vehicle
34 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell days annually OR 26 days holiday, plus public holidays, and the option to buy or sell days annually
Company pension scheme
A range of family friendly policies
Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal
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