Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor – Join a Leading Manufacturer in the West Midlands
Are you a hands on maintenance professional looking to step up into leadership or already leading a small team and ready for a bigger challenge? This is your chance to join a well established, successful manufacturer known for quality, stability, and excellent staff retention.
We’re growing, and we need a Maintenance Supervisor to lead and develop our skilled engineering team at our modern, well equipped site.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Salary: £48,000 + overtime at premium rates
- Early Friday finish – enjoy a long weekend every week
- Enhanced holidays (increase with service)
- Company pension & life assurance
- Modern, safe, and well-equipped site
- Ongoing training & clear career progression
- Free onsite parking
- Supportive team with excellent retention
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and support a team of engineers and technicians
- Plan, schedule and deliver PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance)
- Respond quickly to breakdowns to keep downtime to a minimum
- Manage contractors and issue permits to work
- Drive health & safety compliance across site
- Mentor apprentices and develop junior engineers
- Support continuous improvement projects to boost reliability and efficiency
- This is a hands-on leadership role – perfect if you enjoy combining technical involvement with team management.
What We’re Looking For
- Solid experience in planned and reactive maintenance within manufacturing, production, or process industries
- Proven background as a Maintenance Supervisor / Team Leader (or strong step-up potential if you’ve deputised previously)
- Strong fault finding and diagnostic skills (electrical or mechanical bias)
- Confident managing contractors and using permit-to-work systems
- NVQ Level 3 / City & Guilds (or above) in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Apprenticeship background highly desirable
Location
Easily commutable from Erdington, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Coventry, Birmingham & Solihull.
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Please Note: Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.
Our aim is to help you secure the best possible future for yourself & this is a totally FREE service to all our Candidates.
If you believe that your skills and experience match what we are looking for please call me or APPLY and I will be in touch.
Should you want to learn more about any of our MAINTENANCE, RELIABILITY & SERVICE ENGINEERING vacancies, or should you just want to discuss your particular needs, then please do not hesitate to contact me to have an informal, confidential chat.
Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Maintenance, Reliability & Service Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994