Maintenance Shift Lead

Overview

In this role you lead a high-performing maintenance team at the Midlands Super Hub to safeguard safety, reliability, and performance of automated material-handling systems. You drive a world-class maintenance strategy across advanced automation, coordinating with production and engineering to meet targets. You’ll lead root-cause analyses, improve asset reliability, and champion continuous improvement in a fast-paced logistics environment. This is a chance to shape maintenance culture and impact large-scale operations.

Pay / Benefits

• shift allowance
• Sunday premium payments
• potential earnings package over 67,000 per annum
• annual bonus up to 10%
• excellent benefits
• career development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Lead safety culture, hazard identifications and incident investigations with corrective actions
• Develop and execute shift maintenance strategies to meet production and reliability goals
• Supervise, coach and evaluate maintenance technicians and SME for high performance
• Manage line HR aspects, performance, attendance and policy compliance
• Drive preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance activities
• Manage shift budgets, track expenses and control costs
• Conduct root-cause analyses and implement effective corrective actions
• Coordinate with Production, Engineering and Procurement for shutdowns, capital projects and resource allocation

Key requirements

• Qualified engineer with NVQ Level 4 in Electrical and Mechanical (essential)
• Experience leading and developing a team of engineers
• Extensive industrial maintenance experience with supervisory/leadership background
• Hands-on PLC, hydraulics/pneumatics, electrical and mechanical automation skills
• Strategic leadership, project and change management experience
• Advanced fault-finding and root-cause analysis (5-Why, Fishbone, DMAIC) and continuous-improvement experience (Lean, Six Sigma, TPM)
• Stakeholder communication and cross-shift team development
• Data analysis, KPI monitoring and reporting in maintenance

• leadership
• communication
• team development
• PLCs
• hydraulics/pneumatics
• electrical and mechanical automation

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