Maintenance Lead - Night Shift

AstraZeneca; Macclesfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Maintenance Lead for its night shift operations in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. This role emphasizes leadership and mentorship, driving asset performance and compliance in a highly regulated environment. You will coordinate asset care processes, ensuring optimal equipment effectiveness and quality output. With a commitment to fostering a collaborative workplace, this position offers significant growth opportunities and the chance to make a real impact in the field of medicine. Join a dynamic team dedicated to excellence and innovation.

Benefits

Private Healthcare

Generous Holiday Allowance

Extensive Training Opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in building high-performing teams.
• Track record of improving equipment performance in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in a sterile manufacturing facility ensuring compliance with regulations.
• Optimize asset performance and mentor engineering technicians.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Equipment Performance Improvement

Education

Relevant 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 meaningful impact on patients’ lives around the globe

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge within Engineering? This is an attractive opportunity to join a dynamic business area at AstraZeneca Macclesfield.

Our Macclesfield campus supplies products for most therapy areas, serving global markets and offering great development opportunities. This position provides excellent challenges and rewards, with training and experience in a fast-paced, lean-focused aseptic manufacturing environment.

As a Maintenance Lead working nights, you will drive asset performance within a modern sterile manufacturing facility.

You will lead, support, mentor, and develop engineering technicians to achieve outstanding asset performance through equipment expertise. Your responsibilities include coordinating asset care processes to ensure asset availability, performance, and output quality. You will be accountable for the asset care strategy, compliance, and resource management.

What you'll do

You will lead a team in a pioneering manufacturing facility, ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations, including cGMP, SHE, fiscal, and business procedures.

You will ensure asset contribution to Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) — availability, performance, and quality — through world-class asset care processes and strategies. Providing expert mentorship on assets, asset care, and performance variability, you will understand asset performance and maintenance needs.

Your role includes delivering data-driven improvements and ensuring your team has the necessary capabilities. As a dynamic leader, you will optimize team performance and foster passion and understanding of their contributions.

Essential Criteria

• Proven leadership experience with the ability to build high-performing, motivated teams.
• Track record of improving equipment performance and productivity.
• Effective communicator capable of influencing partners to drive success.
• Relevant engineering degree (preferred) or recognized engineering training (e.g., apprenticeship with HNC/HND or equivalent).
• Experience with assets and asset care in GMP or highly regulated environments.

Desirable Skills

• Understanding and deployment of TPM principles.
• Chartered status or working towards Chartership with an engineering institution.

We promote in-person collaboration to foster innovation and connection, typically working five days a week from the office, with flexibility to respect individual needs.

AstraZeneca offers many benefits, including competitive salary, private healthcare, generous holiday allowance, and extensive training opportunities.

We are committed to being a Great Place to Work, fostering diversity, inclusion, and lifelong learning. Join us to make a difference in medicine, patients, and society.

Interested? Join our journey

Date Posted: 07-May-2025

Closing Date: 19-May-2025

We value inclusivity and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Reasonable adjustments are available for candidates who need them.