# Engineering Supervisor

**Company**: Biffa
**Location**: Edmonton
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: £55,895.84 per annum
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**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. Your responsibilities include driving plant performance, reducing downtime, prioritizing engineering activity, and ensuring maintenance work is completed safely and efficiently.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead and supervise a shift team of engineers and contractors to maximize plant performance and uptime.

- Prioritize planned and reactive maintenance activities to support operational requirements.

- Carry out fault finding, diagnostics, and repairs across plant and machinery.

- Deliver preventative and breakdown maintenance to minimize downtime.

- Support Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and implement long-term corrective actions.

- Identify continuous improvement opportunities to improve reliability and engineering efficiency.

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

- Support and develop engineering team capability and skill progression.

- Maintain accurate maintenance records using the CMMS system.

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

Essential requirements:

- HNC qualified 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.

- Ability to prioritize workloads and perform well in a fast-paced operational environment.

Benefits:

- 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
- Previous experience as 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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