Maintenance Team Leader

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.
• Managing 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.
• Driving 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.