Maintenance Team Leader (Weekend Days) in Telford

Role Overview

Weekend Maintenance Team Leader – reports to the Maintenance & Facilities Manager and leads the maintenance team during shift operations, coordinating with production to meet manufacturing targets for plant availability and preventive maintenance completion.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure equipment availability is in line with departmental targets for the shift.
• Manage team holidays for Maintenance Technicians on shift in line with company policy and procedure.
• Ensure plant faults and defects are swiftly remedied to keep the facility operating smoothly.
• Engage in root cause analysis of repeat or major breakdowns and provide reports with suggested improvements.
• Engineer out previous issues following a continuous improvement mindset and methodology.
• Facilitate PM schedules and make recommendations for improvement, delegating through the team to ensure compliance KPIs.
• Support internal customers with technical issues, including non‑breakdown incidents.
• Comply with all corporate practice, procedures and policies related to Occupational Safety and Health administration rules (OSHA) during maintenance processes.
• Attend training when required and adhere to CCUK and Magna standards.
• Apply 5S methodology in the work area and wider factory.
• Drive through departmental and company goals/objectives.
• Promote and set a positive example in a manner that reflects Magna Employees Charter, Corporate Constitution, and Divisions Mission, Vision, Objectives, Goals and Values.
• Co‑coach, mentor and undertake annual appraisals of team members.
• Support management with ad‑hoc projects as required.
• Plan and organise work shifts for the timely completion of all maintenance activities.
• Lead a team and delegate work functions to them.
• Promote the company’s HSE policies across the department and plant and adhere to all Health and Safety environmental requirements.
• Organise job training activities for all team members.

Essential Experience

• Previous experience in a maintenance function.
• Apprentice experience in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Willingness to multi‑skill.
• Ability to delegate to skilled workers.
• Report writing skills.
• Experience in fault finding from hydraulic & pneumatic schematics.
• Good Microsoft package skills, especially Word and Excel.
• Ability to communicate technical issues and conduct start‑of‑shift briefs.
• 5S experience.

Desirable Experience

• Qualification in both electrical and mechanical disciplines.
• Educated to HNC/HND in a related discipline.
• Experience within the castings sector.
• Health and Safety accreditation.
• Experience of Tier1 automotive supply.
• Previous experience leading a technical team.

Personal Attributes

• Good problem‑solving skills.
• Team player who promotes a team approach to problem solving.
• Confidence to challenge the status quo.
• Target‑driven, understands KPIs and motivates the team to achieve them.
• Collaborative, able to achieve project and company goals.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.
• Good communicator, both written and verbal.
• Can work under pressure.
• Organised and able to multi‑task.
• Proactive with a “can‑do” attitude.

Eligibility

Eligibility to work in the UK.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment: At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That is why we are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer, hiring on the basis of experience and qualifications, in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.