Engineering Team Leader
- Annual Salary: £52,000 + 10% shift premium
- Location: Maidstone
- Job Type: Full-time, permanent
- Shift: 4 on 4 off
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Team Leader to coordinate the tasks of a shift engineering team. This role involves providing clear leadership, ensuring tasks are completed on time and to a world-class standard, and reducing operating plant downtime. The Engineering Team Leader will play a crucial role in managing across departments to ensure the delivery of all maintenance plans and optimising the productivity of the team.
Day-to-day of the Engineering Team Leader role:
- Spend 80% of the time in the plant working hands-on with the team.
- Quickly and safely react to plant breakdowns to minimise downtime and maximise output.
- Apply Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodology following significant downtime events to prevent reoccurrence.
- Work with other Team Leaders to incorporate learnings from plant engineering issues into the bakery's maintenance system.
- Ensure the engineering team completes preventative maintenance tasks on time and records them accurately.
- Develop and update the engineering continuous improvement (CI) and RCA processes.
- Provide weekly management reports on maintenance activities and progress.
Required Skills & Qualifications of the Engineering Team Leader:
- Qualified engineer with a strong electrical & PLC bias and good mechanical knowledge (including hydraulics & pneumatics).
- Proven experience leading a team of shift engineers.
- A clear understanding of the principles of Continuous Improvement (CI) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), with a history of successful deployment.
- Ability to identify effective long-term solutions to plant issues and an excellent troubleshooter.
- Proven ability to operate and develop maintenance systems, comfortable with analysing and interpreting data.
Benefits for the Engineering Team Leader:
- Life Assurance (x2 annually salary)
- Pensions: Company will match up to 5%
- Reward Gateway: discounts and cash back on a selection of hundreds of top retailers etc
- Holiday purchase up to 3days after a years' service
- Private medical after probationary period
- Car lease scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
If you are interested in the Engineering Team Leader role, please apply and Reed Engineering looks forward to speaking in more detail.