Facilities Supervisor

What you will do

• Provide day-to-day supervision coaching and performance management of 12 Facilities Shift Technicians across both rotational shifts ensuring adequate cover competency and morale at all times
• Own the shift handover process ensuring outstanding actions alarms plant status and safety observations are clearly communicated and closed out between teams
• Plan allocate and prioritise daily work planned preventive maintenance unplanned/reactive maintenance and project support work across the technician and apprentice team
• Ensure full and accurate completion of maintenance records shift logs BMS interrogation results and readings driving right-first-time documentation to support regulatory compliance
• Act as an escalation point for site alarms plant faults and breakdowns mobilising the appropriate resource and ensuring timely rectification and root cause follow-up
• Own and drive the apprentice development programme ensuring structured safe and progressive exposure to electrical mechanical pneumatic and BMS disciplines
• Support and enforce safe systems of work permit to work LOTO confined space and other high-hazard controls across all shift activities
• Monitor and report on Facilities KPIs including PPM compliance breakdown response times and backlog identifying and driving improvement actions
• Liaise closely with the Facilities Manager EHS Manufacturing and R&M teams to ensure Facilities service delivery meets site and customer needs
• Lead or support routine testing and compliance activity on life safety systems including sprinkler and fire alarm systems and other statutory plant
• Identify coach and close out skills and knowledge gaps within the team through structured mentoring and on-the-job training
• Support recruitment onboarding and induction of new shift technicians and apprentices
• Deputise for the Facilities Manager as required including representation at meetings

What you will need

• Recognised craft/technical qualification (electrical mechanical or multi-skilled) with a strong working knowledge of facilities plant BMS systems and critical utilities in a manufacturing or process environment
• Proven experience supervising or leading a shift-based maintenance or facilities technician team ideally within a semiconductor pharmaceutical or other high-hazard/regulated site
• Strong understanding of safe systems of work permit to work and statutory compliance requirements (e.g. PSSR DSEAR/ATEX life safety systems)
• Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritise resource across competing planned and reactive workloads
• Confident communicator comfortable liaising across Manufacturing EHS and senior Facilities leadership
• A genuine coaching and mentoring mindset with a track record of developing technicians and apprentices
• IOSH/NEBOSH qualification (or working towards) an advantage
• Flexibility to respond to occasional out-of-hours escalations in support of the 24/7 shift operation