Maintenance Team Leader

  • Bardon
  • Coalville, Leicestershire
  • Jul 29, 2026
Full time Trades & Services

Job Description

Monday - Friday8-5, 45hrs a week

JOB PURPOSE

Manage plant-wide maintenance and capital investment programmes, maximising asset reliability, uptime, and cost effectiveness with available resources.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Provides long-range planning for the plant and equipment needs including capital and major repairs.
  • Develops implements and oversees predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance programmes.
  • Uses other maintenance disciplines in the development and application of reliability engineering, root-cause analysis and fault-diagnosis of equipment and processes.
  • Coaches and develops all maintenance technicians, creating individual training and development plans
  • Continually reviews the effectiveness of the service, ensuring that cost controls are maintained and internal customer expectations are managed
  • Ensure support & cover for the site is maintained through the maintenance team.
  • Manage and control all site maintenance and engineering activities.
  • Drive and support process improvement activities in the pursuit of excellence.
  • Work with the Site Leadership Team to ensure that the level of service meets the business needs, developing long-term plans as required
  • Ensure that all plant and equipment is regularly inspected in order to meet current Health, Safety and Environmental standards, insurance requirements and legislative compliance
  • Develop a high-performance maintenance team, where individuals take responsibility for:
  • Following safe-working practices
  • Improving the performance of their designated machines
  • Managing one or more functions of the maintenance department
  • Maintaining good working relationships with machine operators
  • Accurate reporting of interventions and other activities
  • Recruit and manage individual performance through formal performance review and one-to-one coaching
  • Support each member of the team in his/her ongoing personal development
  • Multi-skills
  • Machine-specific technical know-how
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Develop and implement a cost-effective maintenance programme comprising:
  • Planned, preventive maintenance
  • Predictive and condition-based maintenance
  • Targeted refurbishment programmes
  • Prioritised work-to lists and opportunistic maintenance
  • Create an environment of Continuous Improvement where machine downtime and machine-related quality defects reduce with time, embracing the appropriate improvement tools eg.
  • Pareto analysis
  • FMEA and RCFA
  • CMMS
  • Develop and manage a cost-effective spare-parts holding
  • Support the TPM programme, in particular giving support where needed
  • Report machine and departmental performance through agreed KPIs
  • Manage projects and ensure that all machine modifications are controlled
  • Meet current legislative requirements and best installation practices
  • Risk assessed for human, product and equipment impacts
  • Relevant documentation is updated, spare-parts holding modified, training provided
  • Control expenditure within agreed budgets and provide ongoing, accurate forecast
  • Manage site contractors to ensure that safe working practices are applied and that work is completed within the agreed timescales and cost.

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Achieve departmental KPIs

Constantly strive to reduce downtime to agreed levels

Meet and maintain customer requirements in terms of quality and output

Compliance with all companys quality standards

Adherence to the companys health safety & environment standards (HASAWA Act)

Maintain a good overall condition of work area through routine maintenance

Accurate & efficient control of components including filing and good housekeeping practices

Cost Saving

Department housekeeping improvement 5s continuous

Training attendance

SKILLS/QUALS

Graduate or HND in an Engineering discipline

Have management/supervisory experience in a maintenance or engineering function

Proven experience in project management

Track record of improving processes and goal achievement

Demonstrates strong communication skills and team leadership ability

Has high level of numeracy with strong problem-solving skills

Experience of modern maintenance practices including Reliability Centred Maintenance, use of CMMS, spare parts management, modification and documentation control

Able to demonstrate effective maintenance resource planning and scheduling

A good understanding of, Continuous Improvement /Six-sigma/Lean Manufacturing ideals and systems is desirable

Health and Safety qualification or experience

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Sense of urgency

Energy and drive

High standards, compliance mentality

Analytical thinking

People development

Results focused

Positive attitude and commitment

Ability to apply good practice and common sense in a people management environment

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships

Ability to influence others and generate new ideas

Effective problem-solving and decision making

Forward thinking, innovative and able to see the bigger picture

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

General:Pace of work, customer demands, multi-tasking, leads by example

Office: VDU operation, sitting for long periods,

Factory/Warehouse/Yard:General health & safety, manual handling (bending, lifting, carrying, twisting), attend annual health check.

Benefits:

26 Days holiday + Bank Holidays

Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Access to Benefits Website

Death in Service




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