Lead Department Engineer

Connected Consulting Limited; Lochyside; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Connected Consulting Limited is seeking a Lead Department Engineer to own day-to-day maintenance delivery across a large-scale industrial site. You will coordinate resources, support engineering teams, and work with operations to keep plant reliability and performance on track.

In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll bring together planned maintenance, urgent repairs, and improvements while guiding engineers and contractors to deliver high safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering maintenance experience within a heavy industrial environment.
• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering background.
• Previous experience leading engineering or maintenance teams.
• Strong understanding of planned, reactive and reliability-centred maintenance.
• Knowledge of maintenance management systems (CMMS).
• Good understanding of health, safety and environmental standards.
• Experience helping develop engineers, apprentices or technical teams.
• COMAH experience would be beneficial but isn’t essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day maintenance activities across multiple plant areas.
• Coordinate planned, reactive and breakdown maintenance priorities.
• Manage and support Department Engineers, providing leadership and direction.
• Work closely with Operations to manage plant condition, priorities and recovery activities.
• Review maintenance performance, backlog, repeat failures and preventative maintenance activities.
• Ensure maintenance work is delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
• Support shutdowns, projects, plant modifications and new equipment installations.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

CMMS knowledge

HSE awareness

Team leadership

Mechanical/Electrical

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Do you enjoy being at the centre of a busy engineering operation, balancing priorities, leading teams, and keeping maintenance activities moving safely and efficiently? We're looking for a Lead Department Engineer to take ownership of day-to-day maintenance delivery across a large-scale industrial site. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll coordinate resources, support engineering teams, and work closely with operations to ensure plant reliability and performance remain on track.

What you'll be doing:

You’ll be the person who brings everything together - planned maintenance, urgent repairs, engineering priorities, contractor activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Lead day-to-day maintenance activities across multiple plant areas
• Coordinate planned, reactive and breakdown maintenance priorities
• Manage and support Department Engineers, providing leadership and direction
• Work closely with Operations to manage plant condition, priorities and recovery activities
• Review maintenance performance, backlog, repeat failures and preventative maintenance activities
• Ensure maintenance work is delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard
• Support shutdowns, projects, plant modifications and new equipment installations

What we’re looking for:

• Proven engineering maintenance experience within a heavy industrial environment
• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering background
• Previous experience leading engineering or maintenance teams
• Strong understanding of planned, reactive and reliability-centred maintenance
• Knowledge of maintenance management systems (CMMS)
• Good understanding of health, safety and environmental standards
• Experience helping develop engineers, apprentices or technical teams
• COMAH experience would be beneficial but isn’t essential

Why this role?

This is an opportunity to influence maintenance delivery, plant reliability and team performance. Working alongside experienced engineering and operational teams, helping shape maintenance priorities and driving improvements that make a visible difference every day.