Engineering Team Leader in Ibstock

Monday - Friday 8-5, 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.
• 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 e.g. Pareto analysis, FMEA and RCFACMMS.
• 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 company quality standards.
• Adherence to the company 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/QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.