At a Glance
- Tasks: Supervise and coach a team of Facilities Shift Technicians to ensure smooth operations.
- Company: Join Vishay, a leading tech company with over 60 years of innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development, and a dynamic work environment.
- Other info: Opportunity for growth and learning in a supportive, high-tech environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in facility maintenance while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Craft qualification and experience in supervising maintenance teams required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
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.
Facilities Supervisor in Newport employer: Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
Join a dynamic and innovative team as a Failure Analysis Shift Technician, where you'll be at the forefront of cutting-edge technology in a supportive and collaborative work environment. Our company prioritises employee growth through comprehensive training and development opportunities, ensuring you have the skills to excel in your role. Located in a vibrant area, we offer a unique blend of work-life balance and professional advancement, making us an exceptional employer for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.
Contact Details:
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. Recruitment Team
