Maintenance Supervisor

This role is ideal for an established Maintenance Supervisor who combines strong mechanical or building services knowledge with proven experience managing engineers, contractors, compliance activities and planned maintenance programmes. Working closely with the Hard Services Manager, you'll play a key role in ensuring the safe, compliant and effective operation of the estate while supporting, coaching and developing the engineering team.

• Supervising a team of maintenance engineers and technicians
• Leading the delivery of planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance
• Acting as a technical point of escalation for engineers and contractors
• Supporting fault‑finding and diagnosis across building services systems and plant
• Managing contractors, permits to work and safe systems of work
• Monitoring statutory compliance activities and maintaining associated records
• Ensuring health, safety and environmental standards are consistently achieved
• Maintaining and updating CAFM systems and maintenance records
• Planning and coordinating repairs, minor works and maintenance projects
• Coaching and developing engineers, helping to build technical capability within the team

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect. We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre‑employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment.

By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.

• Experience in a Maintenance Supervisor, Lead Engineer or similar supervisory position
• Level 3 technical qualification (NVQ, City & Guilds, BTEC or equivalent) in Mechanical, Electrical or Building Services Engineering
• Strong hands‑on experience within building maintenance, facilities management or a similar environment
• Proven experience delivering planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance
  
  Experience supervising maintenance teams and specialist contractors
• Sound understanding of statutory compliance and health and safety requirements within a maintenance environment
• Experience using CAFM systems
• Strong fault‑finding and problem‑solving skills

• Mechanical bias with experience of HVAC systems, pumps,…