Technical Team Leader (Maintenance)
Location: Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Your Role
* Lead and coach the engineering team. You set clear direction, develop capability, and maintain team performance.
* Plan and schedule day-to-day maintenance activities. You ensure the correct priorities are followed.
* Promote safety leadership. You ensure 100% compliance and lead projects that improve engineering and equipment safety.
* Ensure 100% Maintenance and Calibration compliance.
* Ensure that all the departments' Non Conformances, deviations, CAPAs, and change requests are completed in line with the site's Quality Management System.
* Oversee the yearly processing plant maintenance shutdown and ensure activities meet safety and quality requirements.
* Drive maintenance improvement from preventive to condition-based approaches.
* Ensure 100% audit readiness through accurate documentation and full compliance.
* Resource maintenance tasks for future projects and support cross-functional planning.
* Hold full day-to-day authority for technical and managerial decisions linked to maintenance operations.
* Act as the engineering link to Operations, Quality, EHS, and Planning. You resolve issues quickly and keep all functions aligned.
Your Expertise
* Knowledge of manufacturing equipment and the maintenance of automated systems.
* Experience leading or coaching technical teams.
* Strong technical problem solving using structured methods such as 5 Why, Ishikawa, or DMAIC.
* Ability to interpret engineering drawings, process instructions, and quality standards.
* Experience coordinating maintenance, calibrations, and engineering interventions during live production.
* Competence in managing non-conformances, deviations, CAPAs, and change controls.
* Leadership experience in enforcing safety rules, quality discipline, and procedural compliance.
* Experience with CMMS systems.
Our Benefits
* 26 days' holiday with the option to buy or sell an additional 10
* Up to 10% employer pension contribution
* Share and bonus scheme
* Access to our flexible benefits from private medical insurance to dental cover
* Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities including 2 paid volunteering days per year and support from our 24/7 employee assistance programme
Equal Opportunity Employer
We welcome applications from individuals with disabilities.
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