Maintenance Team Lead

Function: Supply Chain Location: Knockmore Hill, Lisburn Contract: Permanent

Responsible for managing all activities involved in the Engineering & maintenance of your area. Including co-ordinating of all maintenance activities ensuring the production processes run reliably and efficiently with a strong emphasis on preventative maintenance. Demonstrating leadership and commitment through development and execution of continuous improvement strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for health, safety and well-being to deliver a safety-first culture.
• Motivate and inspire maintenance team by creating an environment that promotes positive communication, encourages co-operation and collaboration.
• Lead and develop the maintenance team through consistent approach to Coaching, Performance Management, and feedback to drive a strong high-performance culture within the team.
• Develop training matrix for each team member, set timely objectives and conduct monthly 1 2 1's.
• Collaborate with production and quality to deliver KBIs.
• Organise and oversee annual overhauls.
• Lead company initiatives to improve equipment reliability.
• Provide high level technical, engineering support and innovative solutions to production plant, auxiliary equipment, systems, and spares to support improvements in manufacturing performance.
• Planning and overseeing the quantity and quality of work carried out by the maintenance team and appointed contractors.
• Ensure the content of the planned maintenance program is adequate and executed to maximise on plant up time and operational efficiency.
• Ensure that systems are in place for tracking equipment performance and that clear accountabilities are identified.
• Create an environment that challenges existing practices and seeks to generate or adopt Best in Class practices.
• Weekly reporting on team KPIs identifying and addressing key issues
• Comply with company policies and procedures.
• To ensure compliance with quality standards, conduct quality checks and keep records
• Operate company IT systems, record and update data as required

Qualifications

• Recognised qualification in Electrical engineering.
• Proven experience of people management and development, building strong succession pipelines within your team.
• Experience of managing a multidiscipline department.
• Ability to form effective working relationships across all layers of the organisation and with external organisations in order to deliver results.
• Strong relationship & communication skills with the ability to challenge and influence others.
• Proven track record in delivering against Maintenance KBIs.
• IT literate with effective skills in Powerpoint, Excel and ideally SAP.
• Strong problem solving with root cause analysis to determine clear corrective action plans.
• Detailed knowledge of manufacturing equipment, and of safety requirements in the maintenance and repair of the machinery.

Desired Criteria

• 3 years recent and relevant experience of leading and managing a maintenance engineering team within a manufacturing environment.
• Third Level qualification, ideally business/engineering/supply chain related.
• Experience of leading cross function projects that affect the entire organisation.
• Previous experience in FMCG manufacturing environment.