Maintenance Lead - Night Shift

AstraZeneca GmbH; Macclesfield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Maintenance Lead for their night shift team in Macclesfield. This role is pivotal in driving asset performance in a modern sterile manufacturing facility. You'll lead, mentor, and develop engineering technicians while ensuring compliance with regulations and optimizing asset care processes. The company values collaboration and offers a dynamic work environment where you can make a meaningful impact on patients' lives. With a competitive salary and extensive benefits, this opportunity is perfect for those looking to grow in a supportive and innovative setting.

Benefits

Private Healthcare

Generous Holiday Allowance

Training and Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience with high-performing teams.
• Experience in equipment performance and productivity improvements.
• Relevant engineering degree or recognized training route.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in a modern sterile manufacturing facility.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Deliver asset care capability and data-driven improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Asset Care

GMP Compliance

Data Analysis

Education

Engineering Degree

HNC/HND or Equivalent

Job description

Maintenance Lead – Night Shift

Location: Macclesfield, UK

Competitive salary and benefits

Opening date: 07/05/2025

Closing date: 20/05/2025

Make a more meaningful impact to patients’ lives around the globe

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge within Engineering? We believe this is an attractive opportunity to join a dynamic business area at our AZ Macclesfield.

Macclesfield campus supplies products for most of the AstraZeneca therapy areas, to global markets and thus has great development opportunities. This position offers excellent challenges, and great rewards for the successful candidates who will gain training and experience in a fast paced, lean focused aseptic manufacture environment.

Working nights as a Maintenance Lead, you'll drive the delivery of asset performance within a leading modern sterile manufacturing facility.

Leading a team, you will support, mentor and develop engineering technicians to achieve outstanding asset performance through equipment expertise. You'll coordinate the performance of the asset care processes in terms of asset availability, performance & output quality. You will hold accountability for the asset care strategy, compliance and associated resources.

What you'll do

You'll be accountable for leading a team in a pioneering manufacturing facility, ensuring compliance of yourself and your team to internal and external regulations. This will involve monitoring and maintaining compliance in accordance with cGMP, SHE, Fiscal and Business procedures.

You'll be responsible for ensuring asset contribution to OEE (availability, performance and quality) that will be delivered successfully through world-class asset care processes and appropriate asset care strategy. Providing expert mentorship to your given business area regarding assets, asset care, asset performance and variability, you'll understand the asset, it’s performance, and how this performance is maintained.

We'll expect you to deliver Asset Care capability and Data driven improvements in order to deliver the business strategy. We'll need you to ensure that you have the right capabilities across all roles in your team.

As a dynamic leader you will optimise performance outcomes of your team and ensure individuals understand and are passionate about their contributions.

Essential Criteria

• Proven leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to cultivate high-performing teams and foster a positive, motivating work environment.
• Evidence of improvement in equipment performance and productivity
• A confident and engaging communicator who can influence a variety of partners to drive success
• You'll have a relevant engineering degree (preferred) or recognised engineering training route (e.g. apprenticeship with HNC/HND or equivalent)
• Experience of assets and asset care practices within a GMP / highly regulated / FMCG environment

Desirable Skills

• Understanding of TPM principles and evidence of deployment
• Ideally you will be Chartered or working towards Chartership with an appropriate engineering institution

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work five days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

There are so many fantastic employee benefits that AstraZeneca offer. AstraZeneca can offer you a competitive salary, private healthcare, a generous holiday allowance, phenomenal training and development opportunities, and much more.

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

Interested? Come and join our journey