Maintenance Supervisor (Electrical and Instruments)

Independent Forgings and Alloys Ltd.; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and industrial forging company in Sheffield is hiring a Maintenance Supervisor to oversee the maintenance team across shifts. Responsibilities include managing both preventative and reactive maintenance, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and raising purchase orders as needed. Applicants must hold a recognized engineering qualification and possess strong teamwork and planning skills. The company offers competitive pay, holiday benefits, pension scheme, and other incentives including a bonus scheme.

Benefits

Competitive pay

33 days holiday

Pension scheme with 5% contribution

Bonus scheme linked to performance

Health cash plan with discounts

Death in service payment

Long service rewards

Childcare vouchers

Cycle to Work scheme

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must hold a recognised engineering industry qualification.
• Apprentice trained Engineer with knowledge of Electrical or Furnace Engineering.
• Attention to detail and ability to work under own initiative.

Responsibilities

• Supervise maintenance team on shifts.
• Maintain preventative and reactive maintenance records.
• Order necessary spares for plant maintenance.

Skills

Electrical Engineering knowledge

Furnace Engineering knowledge

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Planning and organizing

Education

Recognised engineering industry qualification

Tools

Microsoft products

Job description

Maintenance Supervisor - 2 roles available (1x Electrical, 1x Furnace Engineering)

Key Details

Work hours: 37 hours per week

Location: Hillsborough, Sheffield

Independent Forgings and Alloys (IFA) is one of the UK’s leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers. The unique feature about IFA is the combination of open and closed-die forging while also undertaking the whole production process from raw material to the finished product in one location. Operating from a 680 000ft2 facility in Sheffield, we manufacture high-integrity, open-die and closed-die forged components in nickel alloy, titanium, stainless steel and carbon alloys for customers and tier‑one suppliers within the aerospace, nuclear, power generation, marine as well as oil and gas sector.

Main Purpose of the Role

Both roles report to the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for supervising a maintenance team on shifts, including the upkeep of the preventative maintenance (PPM’s) and reactive maintenance records for that shift. Ordering spares where required so plant is correctly maintained and available.

Key Accountabilities

• Supervise a site maintenance team across on shifts in line with site regulations on Health, Safety and the Environment.
• Assisting with supervise sub‑contract maintenance operations and contractors.
• Preventative maintenance – implementation of and keeping PM system up to date, checking that all tasks are completed and input into system, able to demonstrate in an audit.
• Working within your team to achieve departmental KPI’s, attending daily meetings and providing information.
• Responsible for raising PO’s for breakdown up to agreed limit, receipt of goods and signing of invoice for payment.
• Assisting Engineering Manager with managing projects as required with various levels of involvement depending on business needs.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Apprentice trained Engineer with working knowledge of Electrical or Furnace Engineering
• Basic Knowledge of Health, Safety and the Environment (e.g. ISOH).
• Comprehensive knowledge of plant and all working processes on site.
• Potential to learn our IT systems including Microsoft products and the PPM system.
• Attention to detail.
• Self‑motivated and determined to succeed.
• Good interpersonal skills, particularly teamwork.
• Ability to plan and organise workload.
• Pro‑active approach.
• Ability to work under own initiative and as part of a team.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Must hold a recognised engineering industry qualification.

Company principles and culture

Our vision of success through integrity is supported by our core values:

• Working safely – safety is a priority in all that we do, both the safety of all on site and the provision of a safe product.
• Teamwork – by working respectfully together on teams across our business, we build great relationships, recognise outstanding contributions and create the environment for our highly skilled workforce to support our customers in meeting their requirements.
• Improving Quality and Performance – our teams are excellent at what they do and are constantly working to improve our processes.

Why work for us?

At IFA we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. As one of the UK’s leading forge manufacturers we want to ensure that we attract, motivate and retain the best people who can deliver the best service to the company and our customers.

We offer you:

• Competitive pay.
• Holidays – you will have 33 days holiday, including bank holidays.
• Pension scheme – IFA wants to provide its employees a good foundation for the life after work and hence offers a 5% contribution. The pension scheme comes along with further discounts on health, travel and rescue insurances.
• Bonus scheme – this is linked to team and company performance.
• Westfield cash plan – IFA provides level 1 health cash plan which comes along with numerous discounts and special offers, including gym discounts, online, high street and grocery retailers and many more.
• Death in service payment, full company sick pay and long service rewards.
• Tax efficiency schemes: Childcare vouchers and Cycle to Work.
• Free work wear and PPE.
• On‑site parking is available.
• Focus on wellbeing and mental health awareness.
• Trust – we encourage you to come up with ideas and get the most out of your job with us.
• Development – we offer genuine development opportunities to progress your career.

If this has drawn your interest, we would be delighted to hear from you! Please hit the apply now button and upload your CV. PLEASE SPECIFY IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE ELECTRICAL OR THE FURNACE ENGINEERING ROLE.