Hutton Scientific Services
Maintenance Supervisor
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Maintenance Supervisor
Starting Salary £36,178.00
Location Aberdeen
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in 21 days at 23:59 BST.
The Vacancy
Main Purpose of Job
To provide support to the Site Operations Manager to ensure safe, cost effective maintenance planning and execution of maintenance to JHL assets and equipment. Schedule and Plan maintenance activities, Management of internal work request system, Generate and issue facilities maintenance plan. Manage teams of skilled and unskilled maintenance operators to deliver all aspects of the maintenance of our facilities. To carry out and oversee all works as required by the schedule of work by internal staff or external contractors. To manage performance of the site teams.
Key Accountabilities
- Work within the Facilities Team to deliver all elements within the facilities maintenance plan.
- Deliver on the schedule to ensure maintenance is executed to the highest of standards and delivers asset reliability.
- Be accountable for managing all works safely and to procedure, ensuring that any work permits are in place. Ensure that the team are well briefed on all safety requirements and make sure that all work is carried out safely.
- Coordinates maintenance activities and produces agreed plans to procedures in place.
- Spends time to ensure facilities work is planned and delivered within cost and is value for money maintenance.
- Deliver agreed Facilities KPI’s.
- Ensure all assets are maintained to minimum legal and statutory standards and meet insurance requirements, e.g. (lifting equipment, pressure systems and LEV).
- Be accountable to the site operations manager to deliver day to day facilities activates across the site.
- Support the delivery and cascade of site objectives to technical team.
- Participate in training and development of self and facilities team.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with all internal and external site contacts.
- Support Continuous Improvement plan / activities.
- Supervise and performance manage technical teams and manage all aspects of performance.
- Be mobile and spend time on all sites in the cluster.
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Key Contacts
| Typical Reason for Contact | Type of Contact | Job Title of Contact | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly update meetings reporting on progress of maintenance plan and reactive faults | telephone / face to face / e-mail / meetings | Site Operations Manager | Daily / weekly / monthly |
| Hand over monthly work to be completed, dealing with reactive works | telephone / face to face / e-mail / meetings | Site Operations Manager / FM Maintenance team / Contractors | Daily |
| Escalate safety calls | telephone / face to face / e-mail / meetings | All | Daily |
| Develop maintenance plans | telephone / face to face / e-mail / meetings | All above | Daily / weekly / monthly |
| Budget preparation for planned maintenance | telephone / face to face / e-mail / meetings | Site Operations Manager | Monthly |
| Stakeholder engagement | Face to face | Stakeholders | weekly |
| Contract day rates and review of performance | telephone / face to face / e-mail / meetings | External contractors | Weekly |
Knowledge, Skills And Experience
Business Knowledge
- Skilled with City and Guilds or equivalent in electrical, mechanical, or similar.
- Engineering HNC preferred.
- Facilities management experience.
- Experience of CMMS in particular Maximo and Help Desk Experience.
Essential Functional/ Technical Skills
- Team coordination skills.
- Effective communicator.
- Organised approach.
- Flexible / reliable / conscientious.
- Supervision and performance management.
- Trade background.
Personal Attributes/ Competencies
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Results oriented – gets things done.
- Takes accountability.
- Pragmatic – can do attitude.
- Analytical – can interpret and use numbers.
- People management skills – able to work with and through people to make the most of their skills.
- Accurate and honest.
- Desire to learn.
- Tenacious.
- Responds positively to feedback.
- Acts as an ambassador for department and business.
- Build relationships with key stakeholders.
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Key Projects/ Activities Managed
- Ensure statutory and legal compliance.
- Define the maintenance plan for site and ensure it is delivered.
Decision Making Authority
- Award of works to contractors typically up to 10k.
- Prioritise work coming in FM team ensuring safety and statutory compliance are first.
- Deciding KPIs to measure performance of help desk.
- Setting up maintenance and support contracts up to 50K.
Our Commitment to Equality and Diversity
We will not consider the use of 3rd party recruitment agencies for the sourcing of candidates for this position.
The James Hutton Institute is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
The James Hutton Institute is a: Stonewall Diversity Champion; Athena SWAN Silver Status Holder; Disability Confident Committed Employer and a Living Wage Employer.
The James Hutton Institute is Happy to Talk Flexible Working.
The Company
The James Hutton Institute combines strengths in crops, soils and land use and environmental research, and makes a major contribution to the understanding of key global issues, such as food, energy and environmental security, and developing and promoting effective technological and management solutions to these.
James Hutton (1726 – 1797) was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, an eighteenth century golden age of intellectual and scientific achievements centred on Edinburgh. He is internationally regarded as the founder of modern geology and one of the first scientists to describe the Earth as a living system. His thinking on natural selection influenced Charles Darwin in developing his theory of evolution.
Our Values
- We respect and value our people and the people we engage with.
- We want to make a difference.
- We strive to be excellent in everything we do.
- We lead by example.
- We foster creativity and innovation.
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