Maintenance Supervisor - Resistors

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Role Overview and Responsibilities

Role Purpose

The Equipment Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for the day-to-day supervision and coordination of maintenance activities across the Bedlington Resistors business unit.

The role ensures that production equipment, plant infrastructure and site utilities are maintained safely, effectively and in accordance with agreed maintenance plans and operational priorities. The Maintenance Supervisor provides direct leadership to the maintenance technicians and apprentices, allocating work, coordinating the response to equipment breakdowns and ensuring planned maintenance is completed to the required safety, quality and technical standards.

Working closely with the Equipment Maintenance Manager and Manufacturing teams, the role supports equipment availability, reliability and operational performance. The Maintenance Supervisor promotes a proactive maintenance culture through effective frontline leadership, disciplined use of the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS), structured problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Role Boundaries

The Equipment Maintenance Manager retains accountability for maintenance strategy, budgets, lifecycle planning, capital expenditure, supplier strategy, departmental KPIs and the overall capability and performance of the maintenance function.

The Equipment Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for translating those plans into safe and effective daily execution, supervising the technicians and apprentices, coordinating breakdown response, controlling work quality and ensuring maintenance priorities are completed and accurately recorded.

Key Accountabilities

Daily Maintenance Supervision

• Supervise and coordinate the daily activities of maintenance technicians and apprentices.
• Allocate planned, reactive and improvement work according to production priorities, technical capability and available resources.
• Conduct daily maintenance team briefings, ensuring that priorities, safety requirements and outstanding equipment issues are clearly communicated.
• Monitor the progress of maintenance activities and address delays, resource constraints or technical issues promptly.
• Coordinate the maintenance response to equipment breakdowns, ensuring safe and timely fault-finding and repair.
• Escalate significant equipment failures, operational risks and resource concerns to the Equipment Maintenance Manager.
• Ensure effective handovers between technicians, shifts and manufacturing teams.
• Provide practical technical support and guidance during complex breakdowns and maintenance activities.

Preventative and Reactive Maintenance

• Ensure preventative and predictive maintenance activities are completed safely, on time and to the required standard.
• Coordinate breakdown repairs to minimise production downtime and operational disruption.
• Review outstanding and overdue maintenance work and agree recovery priorities with the Equipment Maintenance Manager.
• Support the development and improvement of preventative maintenance instructions, schedules and inspection routines.
• Ensure temporary repairs are properly controlled, documented and followed by appropriate permanent corrective action.
• Verify that equipment is safe, functional and correctly handed back to Manufacturing following maintenance work.
• Identify recurring equipment problems and initiate structured root cause analysis.
• Support the implementation and verification of corrective actions arising from equipment failures.

Team Leadership and Development

• Provide clear day-to-day leadership, direction and support to maintenance technicians and apprentices.
• Set expectations for safety, attendance, housekeeping, workmanship, communication and personal accountability.
• Monitor standards of work and provide timely, constructive feedback to team members.
• Identify technical skills gaps and training requirements and communicate these to the Equipment Maintenance Manager.
• Support technician training, coaching, mentoring and competency development.
• Help apprentices gain appropriate practical experience while ensuring they receive suitable supervision.
• Encourage teamwork, knowledge sharing and ownership of equipment performance.
• Support the Equipment Maintenance Manager with performance and development discussions by providing objective information on work completion, skills and training needs.
• Promote a professional and responsive maintenance service to internal customers.

Health, Safety and Environment

• Ensure all maintenance activities are completed in accordance with Health and Safety legislation, company policies and approved safe systems of work.
• Conduct or support risk assessments, method statements and pre-task safety reviews.
• Coordinate permit-to-work, isolation and lockout/tagout requirements for maintenance activities within the role’s level of authorisation.
• Ensure technicians and contractors use the appropriate tools, equipment and personal protective equipment.
• Stop work where unsafe conditions or practices are identified and escalate significant concerns immediately.
• Ensure good housekeeping is maintained in maintenance workshops, stores and work areas.
• Report and support the investigation of accidents, near misses, unsafe conditions and environmental incidents.
• Assist with safety inspections, audits and corrective-action follow-up.
• Ensure that contractors working under maintenance supervision comply with site safety requirements.

CMMS and Maintenance Records

• Use the CMMS to plan, allocate, monitor and close maintenance work orders.
• Ensure technicians record work completed, time used, parts consumed, failure information and follow-up actions accurately.
• Review completed work orders for quality and completeness before closure.
• Maintain visibility of open, overdue and high-priority maintenance work.
• Support the accuracy of equipment records, asset histories and preventative maintenance schedules.
• Use CMMS information to identify recurring failures, maintenance backlogs and improvement opportunities.
• Provide accurate daily and weekly maintenance information to the Equipment Maintenance Manager.

Equipment Reliability and Continuous Improvement

• Support initiatives to improve equipment uptime, reliability and maintainability.
• Participate in structured root cause analysis and problem-solving activities.
• Help implement corrective and preventative actions and confirm that improvements are sustained.
• Support Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance and continuous improvement activities.
• Work with Manufacturing and Engineering to identify and eliminate recurring causes of downtime.
• Encourage technicians to identify practical improvements to equipment, maintenance methods and working practices.
• Support equipment upgrades, refurbishment, installation, commissioning and production readiness activities.
• Assist with the standardisation of maintenance procedures, checklists and technical documentation.

Production and Cross-Functional Support

• Maintain close communication with Manufacturing regarding breakdowns, maintenance priorities and equipment availability.
• Coordinate planned maintenance with production schedules to minimise operational disruption.
• Provide clear updates