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Maintenance Engineering Team Leader
Location:Bridgwater, Somerset
Hours:37 hours per week, day shift
Salary:40,000 up to 4% annual bonus, 25 days holiday, Pension, Life assurance
Key Responsibilities of a Maintenance Engineering Team Leader:
- Lead and develop a small maintenance team, ensuring delivery of high-quality service levels to support site operations.
- Oversee routine and reactive maintenance of factory machinery and tooling workshop equipment.
- Plan and manage preventive maintenance schedules using a CMMS, maintaining accurate records and improving efficiency.
- Monitor and improve maintenance KPIs, using data to drive performance and reduce downtime.
- Support engineering projects and facilities-related tasks, ensuring maintenance requirements are integrated.
- Collaborate with suppliers for parts and services and help introduce Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) across the site.
Key Skills of a Maintenance Engineering Team Leader:
- Proven leadership experience within a manufacturing maintenance environment, or readiness to step up from a senior maintenance role.
- Strong understanding of preventive maintenance strategies and CMMS systems.
- Familiarity with maintenance standards (e.g. BS 14200) is desirable.
- Excellent communication and team management skills.
- Engineering qualification to Level 5 (e.g. HND) or equivalent.
- IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent certification is highly desirable.
