A Day in the Life
You lead a team of maintenance technicians and engineers — planning and executing preventive and corrective maintenance programmes to maximise equipment uptime and support production targets.
- Coordinate daily maintenance work orders and technician deployment
- Review overnight breakdown reports and prioritise repairs for morning shift
- Conduct equipment walkarounds to identify developing faults before breakdown
- Approve and oversee major planned maintenance shutdowns
- Review and update preventive maintenance schedules in CMMS
- Report maintenance KPIs to engineering management (OEE, MTBF, downtime)
- Manage maintenance spare parts inventory and reorder triggers
- Coach and develop maintenance technicians on fault diagnosis skills
Work Environment
INDOORTeam: MEDIUMUNIFORMRemote: NONE
Industrial factory environment — the supervisor bridges the maintenance workshop and the production floor, managing a team of 5–15 technicians across multiple shift rotations.
Skills Required
Technical Skills
Maintenance management systems (CMMS)Reliability engineering tools (RCA, FMEA)Budget management for maintenance spendWork order planning and schedulingContractor and vendor management
Soft Skills
Team leadership and shift coordinationData-driven decision-making on maintenance prioritiesCommunication upward to management and downward to teamConflict management under production pressureContinuous improvement leadership
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