# Electrical Maintenance Supervisor

**Company**: Biffa
**Location**: Redcar
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £48,987.12 per annum (£22.43 per hour, plus 2% shift allowance)
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4904749

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Maintenance Supervisor to lead and support the engineering function at our Redcar facility. As Electrical Maintenance Supervisor, you will be responsible for ensuring plant reliability, maximising operational uptime, and driving engineering standards across the site.

Your core responsibilities will include:

- Supervising and coordinating engineering and maintenance activities across the site

- Driving plant availability through effective planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance management

- Supporting and leading the engineering team during breakdowns, ensuring faults are diagnosed and resolved efficiently

- Ensuring engineering tasks are completed safely and in line with company procedures and compliance standards

- Identifying recurring faults and implementing long-term engineering solutions and continuous improvement initiatives

- Monitoring engineering performance and supporting the development of best practice across the site

- Liaising with external contractors and suppliers regarding specialist repairs and maintenance activities

- Supporting engineering planning, permit systems, and maintenance scheduling

- Promoting high standards of housekeeping, health & safety, and environmental compliance at all times

- Providing leadership, guidance, and support to engineers and site operatives where required

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- An NVQ Level 3 Engineering qualification, electrical bias preferred

- Previous experience within a supervisory or lead engineering role in an industrial or production environment

- Strong background in maintaining production machinery and equipment

- Experience fault-finding on PLCs, VSDs, and relay logic circuits

- Good understanding of planned preventative maintenance systems

- Strong communication and team leadership skills

- A proactive approach to continuous improvement and problem-solving

In return, we offer a competitive salary, ongoing career development, training, and coaching, a generous pension scheme, medical and dental scheme, retail and leisure discounts, holiday and travel discounts, and a bike-to-work scheme.

## Skills

### Required
- NVQ Level 3 Engineering qualification
- electrical bias
- previous experience within a supervisory or lead engineering role
- strong background in maintaining production machinery and equipment
- experience fault-finding on PLCs, VSDs, and relay logic circuits
- good understanding of planned preventative maintenance systems
- strong communication and team leadership skills
- proactive approach to continuous improvement and problem-solving

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