Maintenance Team Leader

Maintenance Team Leader – Leeds

£49,086 per annum | Full-time | Rotating Shifts

Cubed Talent is recruiting for an experienced Maintenance Team Leader to join a well-established and highly respected manufacturing business in Leeds.

Whats in it for you?

£49,086 per annum

In addition to the competitive salary, the role offers:

• Bupa private medical cover
• Generous pension scheme – above standard employer contribution
• Death in service benefit
• EV scheme 
• Cycle to work scheme 

The business is a leading manufacturer of high-performance construction products and specialist building solutions, supplying products used across the construction, building maintenance and industrial sectors. With a strong reputation for innovation, quality and technical expertise, the site operates within a fast-paced manufacturing environment where safety, reliability and continuous improvement are key priorities.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a technically strong engineering professional who enjoys leading people, improving reliability and driving high standards across a modern manufacturing operation.

You’ll take a key leadership role within the engineering and facilities function, leading a skilled maintenance team and helping ensure plant, equipment and facilities operate safely, reliably and efficiently.

The Role

As Maintenance Team Leader, you will be responsible for coordinating day-to-day engineering and maintenance activities, balancing reactive requirements with preventative and proactive maintenance.

You’ll lead and develop a team of engineers, promote a strong safety culture and use maintenance data to identify opportunities to improve equipment performance, reduce downtime and maximise OEE.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of maintenance engineers.
• Coordinating maintenance activities through a CMMS, ensuring work orders and maintenance records are accurately completed.
• Supporting reactive, corrective and preventative maintenance activities.
• Maintaining high standards of health, safety, compliance and engineering workmanship.
• Ensuring safe systems of work are followed, including LOTO, permits to work, confined spaces and COSHH.
• Supporting breakdown response and prioritising engineering activity according to production requirements.
• Analysing equipment trends and breakdown data to identify root causes and prevent repeat failures.
• Working closely with Production and other departments to improve machine performance and reliability.
• Developing troubleshooting guides and standardised maintenance practices.
• Supporting critical spares management and ensuring appropriate stock levels.
• Maintaining high standards of workshop organisation, housekeeping and equipment care.
• Managing training, competency and skills development within the maintenance team.
• Ensuring effective communication and handovers between shifts.
• Supporting continuous improvement and the development of a proactive maintenance culture.
• Participating in the engineering on-call rota and arranging appropriate out-of-hours engineering cover.

About You

We’re looking for a confident and hands-on engineering leader who can combine strong technical knowledge with excellent people-management skills.

You’ll ideally have:

• An engineering apprenticeship or equivalent technical qualification.
• Significant experience within engineering, maintenance or manufacturing.
• Previous experience leading an engineering or maintenance team in a technical manufacturing environment.
• Strong mechanical and electrical engineering knowledge, with experience across areas such as pneumatic, hydraulic and control systems.
• Experience of preventative, predictive, corrective and reactive maintenance.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement techniques.
• Experience using a CMMS or maintenance management system.
• A strong understanding of engineering health & safety legislation and compliance.
• Experience with root cause analysis and structured problem solving

Knowledge of areas such as PUWER, LOLER, COSHH, DSEAR, ATEX, confined spaces, working at height and electrical safety would be highly advantageous.

What You'll Bring

This role would suit someone who is comfortable moving between hands-on engineering challenges, people leadership and longer-term improvement projects.

You’ll be expected to take ownership, make decisions, challenge the status quo and develop a high-performing maintenance culture. The successful candidate will be supported in the role while being given significant autonomy to tackle both immediate operational challenges and longer-term engineering objectives.

There is also an opportunity for the successful individual to develop into a deputy position to the Maintenance Manager over time.

Working Hours

This is a rotating weekly shift pattern:

Week 1: 5:45am – 2:00pm

Week 2: 1:45pm – 10:00pm

The shift pattern then rotates weekly.

Location

Leeds, Cross Green

Apply Now

If you’re an experienced Maintenance Team Leader, Engineering Team Leader or Senior Maintenance Engineer ready to take the next step in your career, Cubed Talent would love to hear from you.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an established manufacturing business, lead a skilled engineering team and play a key role in improving safety, reliability, efficiency and continuous improvement across the site.

Apply today to find out more about this exciting opportunity.