Title - Engineering Maintenance Supervisor
Location - Holme on Spalding Moor, East Yorkshire.
Contract - Permanent
Reporting to - Maintenance Manager
Shift - 3-week rotating shift pattern including Days and Nights. On average 11 days on, 10 days off.
The Opportunity
Howden Joinery is recruiting an Engineering Maintenance Supervisor for the Engineering team at our solid surface production facility, Howdens Work Surfaces, at Holme on Spalding Moor, East Yorkshire.
Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and controlling maintenance and engineering activities throughout manufacturing to ensure asset performance, reliability, and quality are guaranteed and improved.
A confident leader, you will lead a team of engineering colleagues and indirectly the maintenance activities of operators in the delivery of world-class asset care with the highest standards of safety.
Shift Pattern: 3-week rotating shift pattern including Days and Nights. On average 11 days on, 10 days off.
What will you be doing as an Engineering Maintenance Supervisor:
- Supports and leads as directed the implementation of world-class maintenance methods.
- Leads Route Cause Analysis for reliability and quality improvement.
- Leads practical problem-solving to minimise downtime with team members.
- Co-ordinate’s complex fault finding and escalates additional support requirements where required.
- Develops PM work orders and schedules for assets in CMMS.
- Develops calibration standards for critical assets.
- Responsible for Improving maintenance and asset KPI's as defined by the maintenance manager.
- Leads critical spares analysis for assets as allocated by the maintenance manager.
- Maintains spares and improves life cycle of components.
- Undertakes design out activities with members of their team.
- The job holder will be responsible for planning and allocating work for the maintenance team and ensuring work is completed to a high standard by their team.
- Ensures maintenance interventions on critical assets are bought off.
- Ensures man hours are recorded for maintenance work.
- Undertake 1:2:1's with team members to identify training needs and develop behaviours aligned to Howdens mission statement and culture.
- Coordinate and Undertake equipment Risk Assessments and SOP's.
- Lead the use of dynamic risk assessments within the maintenance team.
- Deputise for the maintenance manager out of hours to ensure planned and unplanned activities are conducted safely.
- Identifies and implements safe working practices.
- Identifies and implements risk reduction on equipment.
- Ensure statutory maintenance work orders are completed on time and feedback in CMMS.
- Manages and coordinates contractor activities through PTW's.
What do we need to qualify for the Engineering Maintenance Supervisor:
- Formal Health and Safety qualification
- CIEH Level 3 Health & Safety
- NEBOSH general Certificate (preferred)
- HNC in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Continuous Improvement experience
- Supervisory experience
What we can offer:
- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
- Lunch meal voucher.
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays per year & opportunity to buy extra holidays.
- Share save scheme.
- Exceptional reward and recognition events
About Howdens:
Howdens Joinery is the UK’s number one trade kitchen supplier providing thousands of products across kitchens, joinery, and hardware. We have over 800 depots throughout the UK and Europe – making us the first choice for more than 460,000 loyal trade professionals. With an ambitious and credible growth plan, we continue to build on our £2.3 billion sales made last year.
There is a strong entrepreneurial ethos and the opportunity to develop within a fast-paced and commercial environment. That, along with a competitive salary, development opportunities, and exciting rewards, are among the reasons why our people enjoy working for Howdens – and why we have been named as one of the 10 Best Big Companies to Work For.
How to Apply:
We are building a future where world-class service, innovation, and sustainability are embedded within our DNA. If Howdens sounds like the kind of place where you can build and develop your career, then we are keen to hear from you.
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