Maintenance Supervisor - Navan

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Maintenance Supervisor - Navan

Cpl are working with our client partner who are a heritage brand name in the insulation manufacturing business.

The company which was established in Ireland 30 years ago, has recently merged with a global leader in the insulation industry and they are now part of an 8,000 strong workforce across 105 countries.

As the business continues along a path of rapid growth with a significant expansion plan now in place, they are currently recruiting an experienced Engineering / Maintenance Supervisor to lead the team in their manufacturing facility in Navan.

This is a full-time perm job opportunity working on a day shift

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager. The Engineering Maintenance Supervisor will:

• Lead a team of 9 skilled and high performing maintenance technicians
• Coach and mentor, the maintenance technician team and support continuous learning and development of the technician team.
• Champion a ‘Culture of Curiosity’ and promote open communication and engagement.
• Be Situationally Aware in terms of equipment conditions and use available resource pool to prioritise and address equipment conditions and performance issues in real-time.
• Have line side presence and visibility to understand equipment performance related issues.
• Use the maintenance team resources, and skillset combined with data and standard problem-solving structures to improve whole system performance.

• Coordinate and schedule technician rosters and manage time and attendance system
• Coordinating shift cover for planned / un-planned absences and pre-approved vacation time off and managing the shift-to-shift handover meetings across the manufacturing areas.
• Own training for maintenance team members, identifying training gaps and compliance to existing On-the Job training plans (OJT) and updating OJT’s as required.
• Be active in the recruitment process within the maintenance technician function.
• Develop, document and communicate out on annual maintenance team performance objectives.
• Adhere to all company and legislative health, safety and environmental requirements linked to site goals.
• Work safely and promote a positive safety culture with active participation in Safety Walks focusing on Situational Awareness. Support compliance to the Safe Plan of Action (SPA) process prior to maintenance interventions.
• Support Corrective and Preventative fixes for actions identified during safety walks and ensure actions assigned are followed up and closed in a timely manner.
• Ensure Right First Time approach is taken when executing technical protocols and the verification of product quality prior to handing back equipment to manufacturing.
• Coordinate all planned (PM) and unplanned maintenance activities, ensuring safety mitigation, task sequencing and ownership is clear to all maintenance team members ahead of work commencing.
• Feedback on critical spares concerns and stock levels to support equipment availability and uptime.
• Collaborate with the Engineering, Manufacturing and Technical Services projects teams to ensure that all new products and projects are introduced in compliance to site standards and are operationally successful.
• Actively monitor equipment waste levels across all process platforms and use data to develop a real-time understanding of root cause and potential solutions. Feedback observations to the Manufacturing Engineering team.

About Your Skills & Experience

• Senior Trade Qualification / National Diploma / Relevant Engineering Degree,
• Hands on practical experience of manufacturing would be an advantage.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills across departments and functions.
• The successful candidate will have excellent customer relations’ skills and an ability to satisfy demanding customer requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven experience as maintenance supervisor or similar role with demonstrated ability in developing and coaching a technical team.
• Demonstrated track history of implementing improvements in previous roles.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong decision-making and structured problem-solving practices.
• Excellent planning and leadership abilities.
• Strong technical knowledge of maintenance and calibration best practice.
• Knowledge of health & safety practices and regulations.

If you are interested in this career opportunity and you are qualified and eligible for full time employment and if Navan is a commutable role for you (please note this is a full time on-site role and does not offer a Hybrid working model).

Then please send your CV to shane.gleeson@cpl.ie and I’ll review and reply back to you within 24 hours of having received your CV. 

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