Shift Maintenance Engineering Team Manager (Mechanical)

2 Days & 2 Nights, 4-off rotating

Bury, Greater Manchester

Salary: £52,859 + benefits and overtime paid at premium rates.

Very low staff turnover

National group with 40 factories

Great training and development opportunities

An excellent culture and working relationship between the 26 Engineers at the site.

A fantastic attitude to flexibility, work-life balance, and your wellbeing.

These are just a few reasons to click apply on this great opportunity for a Maintenance Shift Team Manager to work at the company's manufacturing plant in Bury. The business has produced construction materials and products for both construction and home improvement markets for over 100 years.

The site is a heavy manufacturing plant, a great environment to keep our engineers challenged with a range of material and aggregate processing, mixing, conveying, and some heavy pressing equipment.

As a Maintenance Engineering Team Manager, you will play a key role in leading a small shift team in the delivery of site production plans through ensuring optimum availability, performance, and ongoing improvement of site machinery, plant, and systems. You will achieve your goals through the effective management of your team in delivering engineering team KPI's while managing adherence to all health and safety requirements.

Your duties will include contributing to site maintenance planning activities through our CMMS system including input into supporting our engineering stores personnel to ensure the availability of engineering spares for maintenance plan delivery.

We are seeking an experienced people manager with proven experience in supporting the development and improvement of maintenance colleagues through structured performance reviews, appraisals, situational management, and the coordination of training plan delivery. The role has a mechanical bias but an appreciation of electrical maintenance and an ability to lead a multi-skilled team will be a great advantage.

This is a great time to join the team, we have exciting plans in place to further improve our mature maintenance environment through the adaptation of reliability-based maintenance practices, condition-based monitoring, and the introduction of a new CMMS system.

Key required skills?

· Excellent fault-finding skills

· The ideal applicant will be qualified, time served apprentice trained in a mechanical engineering discipline, ideally to NVQ level 3, HND, or similar.

· Proven experience of leading, motivating and developing small maintenance teams.

· Experience of automated, fast paced manufacturing environements.

· Experience in hydraulics & pneumatics are essential.

· Recognised safety training for example IOSH or NEBOSH

· Forward thinking and planning work/improvements

· Knowledge of Continuous Improvement and Engineering Best Practice systems & processes would be beneficial.

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