Maintenance Engineering Team Leader

You'll be trusted to make decisions, coordinate engineering resources, develop your team and ensure production runs as efficiently and safely as possible.\n\nThe Role\n\nYou'll be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the engineering function during your shift, acting as the link between Engineering, Production and Site Management.\n\nKey responsibilities include:\n\n* Leading, motivating and developing a team of Multi-Skilled Engineers.\n* Coordinating reactive maintenance, planned maintenance and engineering priorities across shift.\n* Scheduling engineering resources to maximise equipment availability and minimise downtime.\n* Making real-time decisions during breakdown situations to restore production safely and efficiently.\n* Supporting continuous improvement, reliability and root cause analysis activities.\n* Driving engineering standards, accountability and performance across the team.\n* Coaching and mentoring engineers to support their technical development.\n* Working closely with Production to balance operational priorities with engineering requirements.\n* Ensuring all engineering work is completed safely and in line with food safety and site procedures.\n* Producing accurate shift handovers, engineering reports and communicating effectively between shifts.\n\nEquipment You'll Support\n\nThe site operates a wide range of automated PLC controlled manufacturing equipment and you will ideally have experience working with the following:\n\nElectrical:\n\n* Three-phase systems.\n* Electrical fault finding.\n* Control panels.\n* Inverters and variable speed drives.\n* Relays, contactors and overload protection.\n* Sensors, photocells and safety circuits.\n* Reading electrical schematics.\n* PLC fault finding, ideally Siemens.\n\nMechanical\n\n* Bearings.\n* Chains and sprockets.\n* Gearboxes.\n* Conveyor systems.\n* Pneumatics.\n* Mechanical strip downs and rebuilds.\n* Fast-paced production machinery.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\nYou'll probably already be an Engineering Team Leader, Lead Engineer or an experienced Multi-Skilled Engineer who naturally takes ownership, supports colleagues and wants to progress into a formal leadership role.\n\nPrevious experience planning workloads, coordinating engineering activity or supervising engineers would be highly advantageous.\n\nWhat's On Offer\n\n* circa £58k basic salary.\n* conti shift pattern offering excellent work-life balance.\n* Company pension.\n* Health Cash Plan.\n* Employee discount platform.\n* Ongoing technical and leadership development.\n* Genuine long-term career progression within a large and growing manufacturing group.\n\nIf you're looking for a role where you'll have genuine responsibility, influence engineering performance and play a key part in developing both people and plant reliability, I'd be keen to have a confidential chat.\n\nWhether you're already an Engineering Team Leader or a Senior Multi-Skilled Engineer with leadership experience ready to take the next step, I'd be keen to speak with you