Maintenance Team Lead: Automation & Reliability

Hunter Selection; Devon and Torbay; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Early Finish Every Friday

4% Matched Pension

Life Assurance

Retail Discount Scheme

Opportunity to shape automation

Job summary

Plymouth, Devon-based Maintenance Team Leader role with a manufacturing business. You will lead a multi-skilled team, drive planned maintenance and reliability, and support complex breakdowns while shaping the site's automation strategy.

£45,000-£50,000, with Friday finish and matched pension. Role focuses on hands-on engineering and people leadership across a busy site, requiring experience with conveyors, sensors, pneumatics and automation, plus strong fault-finding skills and a proactive

Qualifications

• Experience leading a maintenance team in manufacturing/automated environments.
• Strong hands-on mechanical and/or electrical engineering background.
• Proven fault-finding and breakdown experience.
• Experience with PPM/Planned Maintenance and equipment reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multi-skilled maintenance engineering team.
• Plan daily engineering priorities and allocate resources.
• Drive Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) across the site.
• Support complex breakdowns and technical fault finding.
• Use Root Cause Analysis to identify recurring problems and implement solutions.
• Develop and improve preventative maintenance routines.
• Manage work orders and schedules using the CMMS.
• Support TPM and Continuous Improvement activities.
• Analyse downtime and equipment performance to identify improvements.
• Collaborate with Production, Engineering and Quality teams.
• Support new machinery installations and automation projects.

Skills

Leadership

Fault finding

Root Cause Analysis

CMMS/maintenance systems

Communication

Time-served engineering background

TPM/Continuous Improvement

Electrical/Mechanical knowledge

Education

HNC or equivalent in Electrical/Mechanical/Multi-Skilled Engineering

Tools

SAP or similar CMMS

ShireSystem

Job description

Plymouth, Devon-based Maintenance Team Leader role with a manufacturing business. You will lead a multi-skilled team, drive planned maintenance and reliability, and support complex breakdowns while shaping the site's automation strategy.

£45,000-£50,000, with Friday finish and matched pension. Role focuses on hands-on engineering and people leadership across a busy site, requiring experience with conveyors, sensors, pneumatics and automation, plus strong fault-finding skills and a proactive