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Position: Maintenance Engineering Team Leader
Location: Bedford
Job Description:
Recruit Mint is actively seeking an Engineering Team Leader to join our esteemed client in Bedford. This role involves overseeing asset management to ensure customer needs for delivery and quality are met, managing current and future operations to maintain asset availability within the standard cost model, and minimizing engineering-related unplanned downtime. The Engineering Team Leader will foster a positive and supportive team culture, effectively manage the engineering department, and collaborate with the Engineering Manager and Special Projects Director on engineering improvements. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in engineering leadership, strong asset management skills, excellent communication abilities, and a track record of minimizing downtime and driving engineering improvements. Join Recruit Mint and contribute to our client's success by ensuring efficient and effective asset management.
Key Responsibilities
- Foster a supportive team culture encouraging feedback and acting on it.
- Assist the Engineering Manager and Special Projects Director with engineering improvement projects.
- Ensure robust preventative maintenance plans and suggest improvements where necessary.
- Manage inventory of engineering spares, replacement parts, and consumables to maintain operations.
- Promote and maintain quality standards, seeking improvements where possible.
- Conduct regular appraisals and performance reviews using established procedures.
- Represent your team in daily MDI processes and ensure team members are trained to do so in your absence.
- Adhere to all company policies, procedures, and systems consistently.
- Align learning and development activities with business needs through training needs analysis.
Candidate Profile:
- Must have relevant Engineering Qualifications
- Must have management qualifications (Degree or Time served )
- Minimum 1 year of front-line management experience
- Minimum of 2 years manufacturing experience
- Lean knowledge preferred but not essential
Benefits:
- On-site free parking
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays
