# Shift Engineering Supervisor

**Company**: Biffa
**Location**: Edmonton, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £55,895.84 per annum + London Weighting Allowance
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Waste Management
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4904749

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## Description

As a Shift Engineering Supervisor at Biffa's Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Edmonton, you will lead and support a team of multi-skilled technicians to drive plant performance, reduce downtime, and ensure maintenance work is completed safely and efficiently.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and supervising a shift team of engineers and contractors to maximise plant performance and uptime

- Prioritising planned and reactive maintenance activities to support operational requirements

- Carrying out fault finding, diagnostics, and repairs across plant and machinery

- Delivering preventative and breakdown maintenance to minimise downtime

- Supporting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and implementing long-term corrective actions

- Identifying continuous improvement opportunities to improve reliability and engineering efficiency

- Ensuring all engineering activities are carried out safely and in line with company procedures

- Supporting and developing engineering team capability and skill progression

- Maintaining accurate maintenance records using the CMMS system

- Ensuring high standards of housekeeping, engineering practice, and communication through effective shift handovers and reporting

The successful candidate will have:

- An HNC qualification in Mechanical or Plant Engineering

- Previous experience supervising engineering teams within an industrial, manufacturing, or processing environment

- Strong fault finding and problem solving ability

- Experience with hydraulics, pneumatics, and welding

Biffa offers a range of benefits, including:

- Competitive salary + London Weighting Allowance

- Ongoing career development, training, and coaching

- Generous pension scheme

- Retail and leisure discounts

- Holiday and travel discounts

- Life cover

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Plant Engineering
- Fault Finding
- Problem Solving
- Hydraulics
- Pneumatics
- Welding
- CMMS system

### Nice to have
- Engineering Team Leader
- Maintenance Team Leader
- Shift Maintenance Supervisor
- Engineering Operations Supervisor
- Lead Shift Engineer
- Engineering Chargehand
- Senior Maintenance Engineer
- Engineering Shift Lead
- Site Engineering Supervisor
- Maintenance Shift Lead

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