Maintenance Team Leader

Role: Maintenance Team Leader / Maintenance Supervisor (70% management & 30% hands on - biased to management)
Salary: 50,000 to 55,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus benefits and opportunities for further progression and training initiatives
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm (start/finish times are somewhat negotiable) - flexibility required
Location: Commutable from Portsmouth, Fareham, Southampton, Winchester, Ringwood, Havant and surrounding areas

Company

We are currently recruiting for a large, new and modern factory and company who are on the look-out for a Maintenance Team Leader / Maintenance Supervisor who's strengths are in staff management; leading, motivating, supporting, coordinating and driving teams to meet business and operational objectives. You are responsible for a team of up to 12 permanent staff, and various contractors, in this fast moving production environment.

Responsibilities

Reporting into the Engineering Manager, your role is to oversee all maintenance and technical work in the factory, both proactively and reactivley, leading a maintenance and technical team of up to 12 staff members. This role and opportunity still requires a "hands on" approach with an estimated split of 70% management and 30% hands on. So when the going gets tough, this person will still have an active role to play in supporting the machinery in those occasions and when required.

This role is to focus on bringing a sense of positivity and enthusiasm to the team, driving a continuous improvement culture and provide support, guidance, training and delegation of works to the team. Planning and scheduling of work and utilising and maximising on the CMMS system. To minimise downtime, establish and combat reoccurring problems, look at first fix right fix, and provide necessary training to engineers by way of upskilling and development on their weaknesses. Health and safety and compliance will form part of this roles responsibility too, ensuring all correct PPE are provided and worn, and correct procedures are followed.

Requirements

Completed a recognized engineering apprenticeship and/or hold relevant engineering qualifications
Management of a team of Engineers and Staff
Worked in a similar environment, such as Production, Manufacturing, Automation or Industrial
Must have great staff / people management skills and experience, someone who can inspire, motivate and lead a team is essential
Ability to prioritise and delegate workload and use own initiative in a fast-paced production environment
Computer literate


If this role sounds of interest, please apply now and send your most up to date CV to Wesley at TechNichols Resourcing to be considered. Or call TechNichols Resourcing and speak with Wesley for further information.

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard back within 5 working days unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.