Maintenance Supervisor at Sleep Group

Job Advert Summary    

• Productivity improvements and project-based activities, improve quality and safety, and reduce operating costs. Support delivery of the KPIs and ensure preventative actions are taken to maximize success.
• Work on many phases or sub-tasks of projects or entire projects of moderate complexity, with results impacting on project completion. Work under general supervision, reviewed at project milestones and/or on completion by Senior Management.

Minimum Requirements    

• Millwright, BTech or equivalent
• Experience in Electrical and Mechanical engineering
• Commitment to work towards professional accreditation with an industry related body
• Minimum of 5 years work experience in a manufacturing environment or similar role
• Ability to design processes and layouts
• Understanding of production costs to include waste, downtime, scrap and re-work
• Work under minimal supervision with frequent work reviews
• Excellent understanding of manufacturing processes
• Excellent understanding of engineering, scientific and other technical information
• Understand lean manufacturing
• Uses basic concepts and techniques of the profession
• Understanding of Health and Safety practices
• Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure/cost of poor quality

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Audits
• Filing and document control
• Analysis of recurring breakdowns
• Attend to job cards
• Ensure that all existing and new equipment and processes are operated in compliance with all current Quality Control, Health and Safety and Environmental legislation and regulatory requirements
• Ensure all equipment is maintained as assigned, and in accordance with requirements detailed on the appropriate schedule/plan or work instruction, ensuring the minimization of downtime within planned costs for repair and spares
• Support the installation and validation of new equipment and technology and ensure a smooth and acceptable transfer to production
• Undertake special projects and contribute to continuous improvement activities as required
• Support and participate in process improvement activities
• Report and provide information to line management
• Achieve goals within budget
• Plan projects or subtasks so that they may be tracked in line with budget and agreed timeframes
• Be aware and work to achieve the section Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Attend various meetings and action/communicate instructions
• Undertake continuous training and development
• Participate in root cause analysis and resolution of problems
• Agree and comply with the approach to be taken for assigned tasks
• Train and mentor apprentices and less experienced technicians
• Support training needs of the department and provide expertise to apprentices and trainees
• Provide a communication point for the team and provide a proactive feedback process between the technicians and management.
• Assist with visiting specialist engineers when necessary
• Work, liaise and utilize good effective communication with a range of internal departments, external suppliers, service providers and customers
• Ensure that contractors are utilized in accordance with the Company procedures
• Act as first point of contact for production and help provide a proactive feedback process between maintenance and other departments
• Support, comply and ensure complicity with the Health and Safety regulations, all the Companies policies and procedures, Quality and Environmental policies and procedures, etc.

Closing Date    

• 2026/10/06