Maintenance Team Leader
Salary: £58,268 pa, company pension scheme, with highly competitive contribution rates, 22.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
Permanent, Full time
Northern Ireland Mail Centre, Newtownabbey, BT36 4HQ
It’s an exciting time for Royal Mail… Engineering and Design are transforming how we work! Our Engineering vision is blossoming with the establishment of an in-house engineering design team focussed on innovation; transforming operational processes to improve the pace and quality we provide for customers as well as help us to achieve the business net zero strategy. With some exciting improvements deployed and more underway, the demand is growing for us to scale up across the business.
We have a vacancy for a Maintenance Team Leader to join our dedicated Engineering team at the Northern Ireland Mail Centre.
In this key role, you’ll provide first line technical leadership, guidance and support to engineers across the Mail Centre, ensuring our automation equipment performs at its very best.
As a leader within our engineering function, you’ll be responsible for delivering a high quality maintenance service that keeps our operation running smoothly and efficiently. You’ll take ownership of the Mail Centre maintenance plan, ensuring our automation assets consistently meet performance and availability targets.
Duties
* Manage a team of automation engineers and team coaches - develop, motivate the team through coaching, training and development.
* Own and co-ordinate the Mail Centre maintenance plan for automation equipment, ensuring that the asset performance and availability design criteria is achieved.
* Lead daily preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance to optimise automation assets.
* Act as the technical link between engineering and operations, communicate maintenance plans and updates to the engineering teams.
* Oversee implementation of approved equipment modifications and maintain configuration accuracy.
* Conduct audits, support reporting, data collection and root cause analysis for all maintenance / performance / events breakdowns and faults.
* Manage engineering risk assessments and ensure Safe Systems of Work are accurate and displayed.
* Monitor maintenance costs and manage engineering tools and spares using SAP.
* Ensure technical resources meet operational and maintenance demands.
* Have a hand on approach and support ad-hoc maintenance, modification duties.
Attendance: Monday to Friday, approx 07:30 - 16:00 with a degree of flexibility
About You
You need to demonstrate the following skills and experience on your application.
* Extensive background in automation engineering and maintenance
* Hold an electrical engineering qualification – NVQ 3/ONC/HNC or equivalent (essential)
* Experienced at leading large teams of engineers, provide technical leadership, guidance, and support to the team and senior stakeholders
* Reporting, data analysis and experience of using SAP based systems
Closing Date: Tuesday 10th February - this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
Next Steps - if selected, the next stage of the process will be an interview plus presentation on the 19th February
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Extra Benefits
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
• Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.
• Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*
• Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
• Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts
• Free stamps at Christmas
*Available only to perm employees
Your career in safe hands
At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.
We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.
An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.
Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.
Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.
Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.
We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.
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