Mechanical Team Leader

To support in the management of the Mechanical maintenance department to ensure:

• Highest standards of H&S are continually followed
• Legislative compliance is fulfilled

Specific Tasks:

• People management and leadership
• Utilize leadership tools and practices in daily maintenance operations
• Responsible for personnel issues within own team and according to HR policies
• Managerial responsibility over a team, including performance, compensation, absence management and disciplinary issues
• Solid line supervisor for engineers and blue collars in own area
• Resolve any HR related issues within own team
• Responsible for new team member on-boarding at the mill (in practice)
• Continuous development of team skills and efficiency through coaching, leading, motivating and providing development and training opportunities
• Maintain documentation of skill matrices and roles and responsibilities in co-operation with manager
• Team resourcing as well as optimization, adjustment and allocation of resources within the team
• Annual reviews within own team

Daily and shutdown maintenance work management:

• Supervising daily work in responsibility area
• Responsible for work execution of corrective and preventative work orders within responsibility area
• Management of breakdown incidents and unplanned shutdown co-ordination
• Making decisions regarding schedule changes of daily maintenance work
• Review work orders allocated to the area and team members within own responsibility area
• Agree and negotiate labour utilization across areas
• Supervision of shutdowns and evaluating work execution time schedules, delays or change needs of shutdown works
• Creating and updating work orders in Maximo
• Communication and cooperation within production area of responsibility
• Planning of maintenance activities (long term, short term, daily maintenance) in cooperation with a scheduler
• Management of work back-log and work orders
• Detailed work planning with support from Area Engineers
• Define detailed labour requirements for all work orders including skill requirements
• Define spare part requirements and identify technical specification of required spare parts e.g. pump type, etc.
• Define required special tools and lifting equipment etc.
• Decision and approval of external resource use within approval limits
• Ensure full utilization of internal and external resources
• Ensure work quality of executed work including external contractors
• Follow up of external contractor performance
• Work co-ordination between Mechanical and EAI teams
• Creation of work instructions for repetitive maintenance actions, when required
• Creation of Risk Assessment and Method Statements (RAMS) for maintenance work
• Ensure required information will be entered in Maximo and work orders are closed in agreed time frame
• Execute activities given by solid line supervisor
• Request Maximo changes of any findings from CMMS admin
• Participate in on-call support on rota basis

Maintenance development and reliability:

• Development of preventative and corrective maintenance processes and practices in responsibility area
• Reliability development in responsibility area in co-operation with Area Engineer and development team
• Ensure preventive and predictive maintenance program development is done within own responsibility area
• Allocation of required resources to development projects
• Ensure implementation of outcome of maintenance development projects and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations

Cost control:

• Define planned costs for a work order
• Cost control and follow up of costs within own area
• Review planned and actual costs within area
• Evaluate and analyse cost of external labour, scaffolding, hire equipment, spare parts, etc.
• Follow up of maintenance budget within own area
• Approval of costs based on approval limits

KPI-Supporting production and maintenance activities to reach Key Performance Indicators and other targets set.

Academic qualifications:

• Time Served Apprenticeship with relevant experience, NVQ Level 3 / HNC/HND

Professional experience:

• +5 years’ experience within Power Plant Mechanical Maintenance Environment

Specific training:

• Modern Mechanical Maintenance Techniques
• Maintenance of Power/Energy primary and ancillary equipment (GT_ST_ERB)
• Maintenance of Power and Energy conversion systems
• Maintenance of Power plant assets and ancillary equipment
• Maintenance Boiler and steam raising plant inclusive of water and ancillary systems
• Maintenance of Fuel and Reject treatment plant including ancillary equipment