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The Maintenance Team Leader will oversee the maintenance operations within the engineering department of Manufacturing and industrial environment. This role is based in Manchester and requires exceptional organisational skills, along with a strong technical ability to ensure the smooth running of daily operations.
Client Details
The organisation is a well-established entity within the Manufacturing and Production industry. As a medium-sized enterprise, it is committed to excellence in production and maintenance, offering employees a structured and supportive working environment. The business are a global supplier of products, operating in a fast paced manufacturing plant in Manchester and across the UK.
Description
As the Maintenance Team Leader you will be tasked with the following;
- Supervise and co-ordinate maintenance activities across the site and off-site quarry
- Identify and suggest improvements to the manufacturing and quality processes
- Carry out all planned preventative maintenance as requested
- Assist with the installation of new plant equipment
- Promote Lean thinking and actively look for ways to improve efficiencies
- Carry out factory inspections, giving advice and support to production operatives and other personnel as relevant
- Monitoring quality from raw material to finished goods
- Ensure all new starters are efficiently inducted and trained
- Provide emergency maintenance cover when required
Profile
A successful Maintenance Team Leader should have:
- Preferably you will be apprentice trained, but with a minimum level 3 qualification in an Engineering discipline. Successful candidates will be asked to provide copies of their relevant qualifications / carry out competence assessments
- Time served with experience of working in a manufacturing environment ideally heavy manufacturing (clay, refractory, quarrying, cement) or FMCG
- At least a year's leadership experience in a Team Leader / Supervisor role or similar
- Strong leadership, communication and motivational skills
- Excellent attention to detail with a keen attitude and a positive approach
- Good exposure to health & safety standards
- Good working knowledge of EHS
- Strong organisational & planning abilities
- Passionate about improvement with knowledge of Lean manufacturing
- Ability to use common sense to deal with any issues that arise
- Analytical, fault finding and problem-solving skills
- Experience and diagnostics experience of hydraulic, pneumatic, drive chain fault finding, bearing fitting / alignment and electrical control systems
- Knowledge of cutting & grinding regulations
- Maintenance experience and diagnostics of hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical control systems
Job Offer
- Annual salary up to 48,800
- Annual bonus scheme
- Ability to purchase additional holidays
- Company Pension
- SIP - ability to become a shareholder via our Share Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Flexible benefits offering (including health, wellbeing and money saving opportunities)
