At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to ensure safe and efficient maintenance in our manufacturing facilities.
- Company: Victrex, a leader in high-performance polymer solutions across various industries.
- Benefits: Inclusive culture, career development, and a focus on safety and performance.
- Other info: Join a diverse team committed to excellence and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving continuous improvement and leading a dedicated team.
- Qualifications: Strong leadership skills and engineering background required.
The predicted salary is between 35000 - 45000 £ per year.
At Victrex, we enable transformational solutions by creating high-performance PEEK polymer and differentiated solutions that deliver world-class performance across industries including automotive, aerospace, energy and medical. Our people are at the heart of what we do. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and high-performing environment where everyone can contribute, develop and succeed.
The Role
We’re looking for a Maintenance Team Leader to lead a team of technicians in delivering safe, reliable and efficient maintenance across our manufacturing facilities. This is a key leadership role where you will ensure assets and equipment are maintained to the highest standards - maximising performance, minimising downtime, and supporting continuous improvement across the site. You will play a pivotal role in embedding a strong safety culture, developing team capability, and driving performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People (SQDCP).
What You’ll Be Doing
- Providing customer focused, proactive planned and predictive maintenance and corrective maintenance to ensure compliance with standards and regulations, effective asset management strategies whilst also maximising asset availability.
- Leading and developing a team of maintenance technicians (circa 10 direct reports).
- Promoting a proactive safety culture and ensuring compliance with all site standards and procedures.
- Ensuring preventative maintenance is safely delivered to schedule.
- Manage corrective maintenance activities—prioritising work to minimise production impact.
- Working with a maintenance co‑ordinator to plan team resource effectively to support outages, routine maintenance and improvements.
- Supporting root cause analysis and fault diagnosis to prevent recurrence of issues.
- Coaching and developing the team in structured problem solving and technical capability.
- Supporting implementation and commissioning of plant improvement projects.
- Driving continuous improvement opportunities within the team and wider operations.
- Ensuring maintenance procedures, systems and documentation are accurate and followed.
- Drive cost improvements to reduce the overall cost of manufacture.
What We’re Looking For
Essential:
- Strong background in team leadership, ideally with an engineering background.
- Experience leading a team in a 24/7 operational environment.
- HNC (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline.
Desirable:
- Experience working in COMAH / PPC regulated environments.
Skills & Behaviours
- Strong leadership with the ability to build trust and respect.
- High levels of emotional intelligence and communication skills.
- Highly organised with the ability to prioritise effectively.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
- A proactive, solutions‑focused approach to problem solving.
Victrex values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community.
Maintenance Team Leader in England employer: Victrex Manufacturing Limited
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Contact Details:
Victrex Manufacturing Limited Recruitment Team
