Maintenance Team Lead

Engineering Team Lead

📍 Aylesbury

💰 £50,000 + 10% Bonus
🕒 Monday to Friday | 8:30am - 5:00pm
🌴 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays | 📈 Career Progression Opportunities

An industry-leading manufacturer is seeking a Maintenance Manager to join its Aylesbury operation.

This position has become available due to the planned retirement of a long-serving engineer within the business. To ensure a smooth transition, the successful candidate will benefit from a comprehensive handover period, providing a unique opportunity to inherit extensive site knowledge while bringing fresh ideas and leadership to the department.

This is a pivotal role within the business. You'll effectively lead all engineering activities on site, driving reliability, efficiency and continuous improvement while managing a small team of multi-skilled engineers.

Importantly, this role is open to ambitious Senior Engineers or Team Leaders looking to take the next step in their career.

The Role

As Maintenance Manager, you'll take responsibility for the overall engineering function, ensuring equipment reliability, site safety and maintenance excellence.

Your responsibilities will include:

Managing daily maintenance activities, breakdowns and planned maintenance schedules
Driving preventative maintenance strategies and long-term asset reliability
Ensuring machinery downtime is minimised and production performance is maximised
Managing maintenance inspections, calibration programmes and compliance activities
Leading CAPEX projects, machinery installations, refurbishments and automation improvements
Managing maintenance budgets, spare parts inventory and engineering costs
Driving continuous improvement initiatives around reliability, downtime reduction, energy efficiency and sustainability

What We're Looking For

Electrically qualified (Apprenticeship, NVQ Level 3, HNC or equivalent)
Multi-skilled maintenance experience within a manufacturing or production environment
Strong understanding of electrical, mechanical and automation systems
Knowledge of PLCs and automated manufacturing equipment
Strong communication and leadership skills

What's On Offer?

£50,000 Basic Salary
10% Performance Bonus
25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
Monday to Friday Days Role
Full Handover from Long-Serving Incumbent
Significant Autonomy and Responsibility
Career Progression Opportunities
Stable, Growing Manufacturing Business
Opportunity to Lead Engineering Strategy and Site ImprovementsIf you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

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