Engineering Supervisor, Dagenham

This role is a mix of having hands-on responsibility in providing support to the shift teams coupled with improving reliability and long term asset care on site. In the absence of the Manager, you will have direct responsibility for a team of technicians. Please note that this role works on a Mon-Fri basis with shifts rotating between earlies and lates (6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm) - for example, 2 weeks of earlies, then 2 weeks of lates.

This would be a fantastic opportunity for either an experienced Supervisor/Team Leader who has had good exposure to reliability and leading a small team, or an existing Multi Skilled Engineer/Reliability Engineer who is looking for their first formal step into a supervisory/leadership role.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing maintenance plans and asset care packages, with safety as top priority.
• Managing engineering teams on a shift basis, collaborating with production to hit shift targets.
• Developing and implementing training plans to ensure a mix of skills and coverage across the shift teams.
• Completing and tracking work orders on the CMMS system
• Raising requisitions for spares through the Engineering Administrator.
• Completing PPM tasks and reporting
• Allocation of key team roles such as Duty Holder, First Aider, Fire Marshall (some of which you will be doing yourself)
• Maintaining site critical infrastructure
• Supervising contractors on site
• Identifying and carrying out continuous improvement activities.

We are looking for:

• Electrical/Mechanical qualified - minimum of NVQ Level 3 (NVQ 3, ONC, OND, HNC, HND, Degree or equivalent)
• Formally electrically qualified (City and Guilds/18th edition etc)
• Experience in a fast paced manufacturing environment (food, drink, brewery, pharmaceutical, plastics, packaging, automated warehouses etc)
• Safety literate and conscious (qualifications preferred)
• Good leadership ability/potential with a can-do attitude and motivational approach.
• Good presentation skills, capable of presenting asset care and reliability plans to Senior Management.