Engineering Team Leader — Hands-On, Shift-Pattern Role

Recruitme; Toseland; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruitme is seeking an experienced Engineering Team Leader to lead a multi-skilled maintenance team on a busy food manufacturing site. You’ll stay hands-on while managing maintenance delivery, breakdown response, and continuous improvement across electrical and mechanical systems.

The ideal candidate has strong fault-finding skills, PLC knowledge, and prior supervisory experience, with exposure to boilers, refrigeration, and site utilities.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as an Engineering Team Leader, Maintenance Supervisor or Senior Engineer
• Experience leading or supervising maintenance engineers
• Electrical and mechanical engineering qualifications
• Strong electrical and mechanical fault-finding ability
• Experience within manufacturing, production or food manufacturing
• Knowledge of PLC-controlled machinery
• Experience with pneumatics and hydraulics
• Experience working with PPM and reactive maintenance programmes
• Experience with boilers, refrigeration, cooling systems, water systems or site services would be beneficial

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of multi-skilled maintenance engineers
• Ensure engineering activities are completed safely and efficiently
• Coordinate planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance
• Respond to breakdowns and support effective fault diagnosis
• Carry out electrical and mechanical fault finding
• Support production equipment and PLC-controlled machinery
• Maintain and support site utilities and services
• Work with boilers, cooling systems and water systems
• Support fabrication and general engineering activities
• Identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability and performance

Skills

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Fault finding

PLC control systems

Pneumatics & Hydraulics

Maintenance planning

Team leadership

Preventive maintenance

Site utilities knowledge

Education

Engineering qualifications (electrical & mechanical)

Tools

Boilers

HVAC systems

PLC-controlled machinery

Job description

Recruitme is seeking an experienced Engineering Team Leader to lead a multi-skilled maintenance team on a busy food manufacturing site. You’ll stay hands-on while managing maintenance delivery, breakdown response, and continuous improvement across electrical and mechanical systems.

The ideal candidate has strong fault-finding skills, PLC knowledge, and prior supervisory experience, with exposure to boilers, refrigeration, and site utilities.