The Role
We’re looking for a Maintenance Team Leader to lead a team of technicians in delivering safe, reliable and efficient maintenance across our manufacturing facilities. This key leadership role will ensure assets and equipment are maintained to the highest standards, maximizing performance, minimizing downtime, and supporting continuous improvement across the site. You will play a pivotal role in embedding a strong safety culture, developing team capability, and driving performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People (SQDCP).
What You’ll Be Doing
* Provide customer-focused, proactive planned and predictive maintenance and corrective maintenance to ensure compliance with standards and regulations, effective asset management strategies whilst also maximizing asset availability.
* Lead and develop a team of maintenance technicians (circa 10 direct reports).
* Promote a proactive safety culture and ensure compliance with all site standards and procedures.
* Ensure preventative maintenance is safely delivered to schedule.
* Manage corrective maintenance activities—prioritise work to minimise production impact.
* Work with a maintenance co‑ordinator to plan team resources effectively to support outages, routine maintenance and improvements.
* Support root cause analysis and fault diagnosis to prevent recurrence of issues.
* Coach and develop the team in structured problem solving and technical capability.
* Support implementation and commissioning of plant improvement projects.
* Drive continuous improvement opportunities within the team and wider operations.
* Ensure maintenance procedures, systems and documentation are accurate and followed.
* Drive cost improvements to reduce the overall cost of manufacture.
What We’re Looking For
Essential
* Strong background in team leadership, ideally with an engineering background.
* Experience leading a team in a 24/7 operational environment.
* HNC (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline.
Desirable
* Experience working in COMAH / PPC regulated environments.
Skills & Behaviours
* Strong leadership with the ability to build trust and respect.
* High levels of emotional intelligence and communication skills.
* Highly organised with the ability to prioritise effectively.
* Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
* A proactive, solutions‑focused approach to problem solving.
We value diversity and encourage applications from all sections of the community.
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