Engineering Team Leader

Engineering Team Leader -An Electrical Maintenance background is essential.

The Maintenance team leader is a key role in prioritising and delivering the day-to-day KPI's within the engineering department. The Team leader will serve as a first point of contact for both the engineering manager and other external stakeholders in engineering activities.
General duties will include maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and improving the reliability of all equipment on site as well as assisting in the planning and delivery of all the days engineering activities.

The Person:

• Experience of managing a team within an engineering or manufacturing environment.
• Experience within the Food, pharmaceutical or chemical industry would be desired but not required.
• Familiar with working on production equipment including filling lines, conveyors, packaging lines, autoclaves tablet presses, granulators, WFI and heat sterilizers etc.
• An electrical bias background is essential.
• Previous experience of managing, coaching and developing colleagues would be beneficial.
• Able to work cross functionally.
• Strong communicator.
• Natural ability to plan and organise.

The Role:

• Distribute and monitor the teams work to achieve the delivery of a Planned maintenance program to ensure reliability of equipment and to improve asset performance.
• Remain up to date with the online ticketing system, ensuring the teams timely completion of work orders giving accurate and valuable detail for asset history following the functional failure.
• Lead the department Engineering RCA (root cause analysis) to stop any issues from re-occurring.
• Perform calibration services in accordance with work order instructions, associated procedures and regulatory standards.
• Continuous improvement of equipment, improving safety, efficiency, changeovers and minimising downtime.
• Ensure that all daily admin is carried out, such as the shift handover and completion of the DRM board.
• Ensure presence at the packing and manufacturing tier 1 meetings and communicates actions back to engineering to action out.
• Support problem solving sessions throughout site from an engineering aspect and carry out QMS documentation within documented and agreed deadlines.

This role is working aContinentalshift pattern - Rotating Day's & Nights

The pay rate is between49,000pa - 52,000padependant on skills and experience.

For more information regarding this position contact:

Laura Riding

Questech Recruitment.