Engineering Team Leader

Annual Salary: £52,000 + 10% shift premium
Location: Maidstone
Job Type: Full-time, permanent
Shift: 4 on 4 offWe are seeking an experienced Engineering Team Leader to coordinate the tasks of a shift engineering team. This role involves providing clear leadership, ensuring tasks are completed on time and to a world-class standard, and reducing operating plant downtime. The Engineering Team Leader will play a crucial role in managing across departments to ensure the delivery of all maintenance plans and optimising the productivity of the team.

Day-to-day of the Engineering Team Leader role:

Spend 80% of the time in the plant working hands-on with the team.
Quickly and safely react to plant breakdowns to minimise downtime and maximise output.
Apply Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodology following significant downtime events to prevent reoccurrence.
Work with other Team Leaders to incorporate learnings from plant engineering issues into the bakery's maintenance system.
Ensure the engineering team completes preventative maintenance tasks on time and records them accurately.
Develop and update the engineering continuous improvement (CI) and RCA processes.
Provide weekly management reports on maintenance activities and progress.

Required Skills & Qualifications of the Engineering Team Leader:

Qualified engineer with a strong electrical & PLC bias and good mechanical knowledge (including hydraulics & pneumatics).
Proven experience leading a team of shift engineers.
A clear understanding of the principles of Continuous Improvement (CI) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), with a history of successful deployment.
Ability to identify effective long-term solutions to plant issues and an excellent troubleshooter.
Proven ability to operate and develop maintenance systems, comfortable with analysing and interpreting data.

Benefits for the Engineering Team Leader:

Life Assurance (x2 annually salary)
Pensions: Company will match up to 5%
Reward Gateway: discounts and cash back on a selection of hundreds of top retailers etc
Holiday purchase up to 3days after a years' service
Private medical after probationary period
Car lease scheme
Cycle to work schemeIf you are interested in the Engineering Team Leader role, please apply and Reed Engineering looks forward to speaking in more detail