Hands-On Engineering Team Lead – Manufacturing

RecruitMe; England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

RecruitMe is seeking an experienced Engineering Team Leader for a food manufacturing site in the United Kingdom. You will lead a skilled maintenance team, stay hands-on, and drive reliability and efficiency across equipment and systems.

The role covers planned and breakdown maintenance, site services, and continuous improvement, with rotating shifts. Ideal candidates have electrical/mechanical qualifications and CMMS experience.

Qualifications

• Experience as Engineering Team Leader or Senior Engineer.
• Experience supervising maintenance engineers.
• Electrical and mechanical engineering qualifications.
• Experience with PLC-controlled machinery and site utilities.
• Experience in manufacturing, especially food manufacturing.
• CMMS or maintenance management systems experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of multi-skilled maintenance engineers.
• Ensure engineering activities are completed safely and efficiently.
• Coordinate planned preventive maintenance and reactive maintenance.
• Respond to breakdowns and support fault diagnosis.
• Carry out electrical and mechanical fault finding.
• Support production equipment and PLC-controlled machinery.
• Maintain site utilities and services.
• Identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability.

Skills

Team leadership

Maintenance supervision

Fault-finding

Problem-solving

Hands-on leadership

Education

Electrical and mechanical engineering qualifications

Tools

CMMS

Job description

RecruitMe is seeking an experienced Engineering Team Leader for a food manufacturing site in the United Kingdom. You will lead a skilled maintenance team, stay hands-on, and drive reliability and efficiency across equipment and systems.

The role covers planned and breakdown maintenance, site services, and continuous improvement, with rotating shifts. Ideal candidates have electrical/mechanical qualifications and CMMS experience.