Maintenance Team Leader

Maintenance Team Leader (Mechanically-biased)

Based: Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Salary: Up to £48,000 plus Benefits (pension scheme, private healthcare, etc.)

I am working closely with my client to recruit an experienced Maintenance Team Leader, ideally with a mechanical-bias, to join the on-site multi-disciplined and multi-skilled Engineering Team at their busy facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

Employed as a Maintenance Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplined and multi-skilled team of Engineers and Technicians to safely maintain the diverse range of equipment on site, both planned preventative and corrective, in order to facilitate the safe and efficient operations of the business.

The purpose of this role (as part of the Engineering Team) is to oversee the daily operations of the Team (including sub-contractors); manage and monitor PPM programmes and legal compliant inspections; conducting risk assessments; and review the team to identify training requirements.

We are looking for candidates with excellent engineering skills, knowledge and experience of a wide range of equipment and systems ideally including some HVAC (such as boilers, steam generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, pumps, UPS).

We are looking for a Maintenance Team Leader with the following attributes:

• Prior experience as a Maintenance Team Leader leading a engineering team in a high-risk process-driven manufacturing environment and/or production facility which requires extensive documentation of actions in sectors such as food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, nuclear, chemicals, oil & gas, or similar industries which require significant amounts of documentation.
• Excellent communication and people skills
• Proven track record of developing members of the engineering team through training, coaching and mentoring
• Ability to use of LEAN methodologies within a team and co-ordinating the use of resources and fully utilising the skills within the team to meet operation and maintenance needs

Candidates must hold a recognised engineering qualification / completed an engineering apprenticeship, or have significant work experience. Previous experience of a maintenance management system would be beneficial, as would experience of permit to work systems.

This Maintenance Team Leader role is being offered with a very attractive salary and benefits package within a company with an excellent reputation for developing their staff and facilitating clear career progression opportunities.

More information available upon application.

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