Mechanical Team Lead

Department: Operations/Production/Manufacturing

Full-time or Part-time: Full-Time

Job Type: Employee

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that's transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It's our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win - adapting quickly in an everchanging world - and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Mechanical Team Lead

Reports to: Engineering Manager

BG/BU/Corp: Maintenance

Location: AF Cumbria

A. Overview of role purpose

Purpose

To drive improvement in machine availability (uptime) and machine performance (OEE) for the assets across the span of control by managing the team through the planning and scheduling of the work and training required. Accountable for all line management duties for the team members.

Reporting structure

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager

Outline of duties

• Managing the team members to deliver the maintenance activities in line with the business priorities.
• Providing line management responsibilities for the team members including training and development.
• Executing the team lead role within the planning and scheduling process.
• Identification and monitoring of critical spares across the business utilising stock control systems including input, management and improvement activities.
• Providing technical support to the maintenance team on preventive and corrective maintenance as required.

B. Key Accountabilities Safety

• Leading by example and encouraging correct behaviours;
• Maintaining an up to date knowledge of OHSE legislation and taking the necessary steps to ensure compliance;
• Completing the necessary one minute risk assessments for each job;
• Challenging those who are not working safely;
• Promoting the use of the near miss system;
• Carrying out behavioural audits;
• Always working in a safe manner and reporting unsafe conditions;

Hygiene

• Leading by example;
• Working to and within the site hygiene rules;
• Promoting a clean as you go approach;
• Complying with 6S activities;
• Challenging non conformance.

Quality

• Implementing maintenance initiatives that will drive quality improvements;
• Supporting quality improvement programmes.

Waste

• Identifying and implementing maintenance solutions that will minimise waste production;
• Working closely with operational teams to support waste improvement programmes.

Engineering Responsibilities

• Managing the team members to deliver the maintenance activities in line with the business priorities, whilst ensuring correct resources allocated to emergency work. This includes staff and 3rd party contractors.
• Providing line management responsibilities for the team members including training and development.
• Prioritising new and existing preventive and corrective work orders.
• Complying with the planning and scheduling processes to ensure work is executed in line with those priorities.
• Identification and monitoring of critical spares across the business utilising stock control systems including input, management and improvement activities.
• Providing technical support to the maintenance team on preventive and corrective maintenance as required.
• Accountable for the completion of maintenance work orders, documents and records and providing feedback and future learnings for improvements.
• Working in a positive manner and is open to new tasks and challenges.

People Management

• To lead and support those within the direct team.
• To proactively seek out and arrange training requirements.

Operational Excellence / Continuous Improvements

• Actively seeking best practice solutions, both from within Amcor and externally.
• Determination to deliver best in class.
• Promoting operational excellence and continuous improvements within maintenance across the site.

C. Role dimensions and budget responsibility

• Secondary budget responsibility.
• Support the sites engineering budget delivery through delivery of effective maintenance.

D. Internal and External Relationships / Contacts

The discipline team lead reports directly to the maintenance manager.

Direct Reports

• Mechanical Chargehand.
• Mechanical Maintenance Engineers.
• Mechanical Apprentices.

Internal and External Stakeholders

• The senior leadership team.
• The engineering management team.
• The project engineer.
• The maintenance team.
• Operational management across the site.
• Support functions/Business partners.
• Equipment OEMs.
• Contractors.
• Other Amcor engineering departments.

E. Qualifications / requirements Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of leading teams.
• Positive attitude.
• Process knowledge/experience.
• Problem solving skills.
• Good organisational skills.
• Experience of operational maintenance within a manufacturing environment.
• Computer literate.
• Improving equipment maintenance strategies and maintenance plans.
• Developing and improving procedures for the execution of the maintenance plans.
• Training and mentoring.
• Planning and scheduling.

Education and Certifications

• HNC in mechanical engineering discipline or equivalent.
• Relevant equipment specific courses.
• Some form of OHSE qualification (IOSH Managing Safely).
• Leadership/supervision qualification (ILM Level 3).
• CI qualification.
• Ideally some form of OHSE qualification (desirable).

Job Specific Technical Requirements

• Engineering knowledge of printing presses and blown film extrusion lines (desirable but not essential).
• Understanding of continuous improvement / operational excellence tools and techniques.

About Amcor

Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualised sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.

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