As a Maintenance Supervisor, you'll lead the day‑to‑day operations of our maintenance function at the Eynsham facility, ensuring high equipment availability and smooth production continuity. Working permanent days, you'll oversee a multi‑shift maintenance team and act as the link between engineering, production, and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Leading and supporting a team of maintenance engineers across rotating weekday and weekend shifts.
- Coordinating fast and effective breakdown response to minimise downtime and protect production output.
- Overseeing planned, preventive, predictive, and statutory maintenance activities.
- Prioritising work on the shop floor, balancing scheduled maintenance with operational risk and uptime.
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives to improve equipment reliability, efficiency, and cost performance.
- Acting as the interface between maintenance, production teams, and management.
- Ensuring compliance with health, safety, and regulatory standards at all times.
- Analysing recurring issues using data and root‑cause methods, and implementing lasting solutions.
- Supporting optimisation projects and working with suppliers and contractors where required.
- Maintaining accurate documentation, reporting, and performance visibility.
Qualifications
- A strong background in industrial maintenance, ideally within a highly automated manufacturing environment.
- Solid technical expertise in mechanical and/or electrical systems, with exposure to automation, PLCs, robotics, or SCADA.
- Proven people leadership experience, including managing and motivating teams across multiple shifts.
- Confidence making sound decisions under pressure and prioritising work based on operational risk.
- Experience with CMMS systems and maintenance planning.
- A continuous improvement mindset, with experience in root cause analysis and performance optimisation.
- Strong communication skills, able to engage effectively with engineers, production teams, and leaders.
- Relevant technical qualifications or apprenticeship, with safety certification such as IOSH or NEBOSH highly valued.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- 26 days annual leave with the option to buy up to 10 days and sell up to 5
- Up to 10% matched pension contributions
- BUPA Private Medical Insurance
- Bonus & Share Save Scheme
- Free to use on‑site gym
- 2 paid volunteering days each year
