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Maintenance Team Leader

Coventry
4 days ago
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Maintenance Team Leader
Coventry, Warwickshire
£54,855
Panama 2’s and 3’s (Days and Nights, 2 weeks about)

Benefits

Company performancebased bonus – Was paid at just over 3% last year – Been paid 4 of the last 5 years 

£300 gross payment per shift of overtime worked 

Excellent death in service (8X annual salary) 

16% Pension (8% matched) 

26 days holiday
We are looking for a hands-on maintenance team leader to lead a shift of multi skilled engineers at our flagship manufacturing site in Coventry!

We are a rapidly expanding multinational company with 50 years of experience of providing market leading quality building materials. Testament to our expansion is our ability to match increased demand, we currently supply 1.1 million metres of our products per day. We employ around 400 employees on our Coventry site, 30 of them being maintenance engineers.

You’ll be repairing a wide variety of industrial plant machinery including hydraulic presses, rollers, conveyors, ABB Robots, Siemens and Allan Bradley PLC systems. The role is very hands on and varied day to day but you will also have supervisory responsibility.

Roles and Responsibilities

Handson team leader, roughly 80:20 hands-on: hands-off ratio
Shift handovers / shift reports
Scheduling and delegating maintenance work amongst the shift
Directly managing a team of 3 shift engineers
Experience Required

Minimum of 5 years experience as an industrial maintenance engineer – Ideally with prior team lead/supervisors experience
Ideally qualified to a minimum of Level 3 in maintenance
Ideally from a manufacturing background
Get in touch with Matt Morson at Stirling Warrington regarding this vacancy or any other vacancy in the Coventry area

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