Maintenance Team Leader

Are you the kind of Maintenance Engineer who likes being on the tools, solving problems and keeping production moving, but also enjoys supporting and leading a team?

We are recruiting for a Senior / Lead Maintenance Engineer to join an established, successful, and profitable food manufacturing business in Leicestershire. With continued investment and innovation, the site continues to evolve and grow, creating an opportunity for an engineer who wants to make a real impact. This role also offers a genuine opportunity for further career development as the business continues to invest in both its people and future growth.

This is not a role sat behind a desk writing reports all day. You will be out on the shop floor, fault finding, supporting engineers, improving reliability and helping drive the engineering team forward.

Benefits:

• c£52k
• + Bonus
• + Private Healthcare
• + Ongoing Training & career development
• Days Shifts only

Shifts: 3 on 3 off Days | 12 Hour Shifts

Why this role could suit you:

• Hands on engineering role with leadership responsibility
• Genuine opportunity for future career development
• Days only shift pattern
• Mix of reactive work, planned maintenance and improvement projects
• Ongoing training and development
• Bonus, private healthcare and pension
• Stable business with continued investment and growth

What you will be doing:

• Getting stuck into breakdowns and fault finding across production equipment
• Supporting and leading a team of engineers day to day
• Planned preventative maintenance and reactive repairs
• Fault finding to circuit diagram level
• Working on processing and automated packing equipment
• Supporting boilers, pneumatics, power and site services
• Looking for ways to improve reliability and reduce downtime

We are keen to speak with Maintenance Engineers who have:

• Engineering qualifications with strong electrical skills
• Previous experience leading engineers or stepping into leadership responsibilities
• Experience within manufacturing environments
• Strong fault finding ability and practical problem solving skills
• The attitude to get involved and lead from the front
• Food manufacturing experience would be useful but is not essential

If you are currently a Senior Maintenance Engineer, Lead Engineer or a Maintenance Engineer looking for the next step, this could be worth a conversation.

If this sounds like the kind of Maintenance Engineer role you have been looking for, apply now or contact Stuart at Wagstaff for a confidential conversation.

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