Maintenance Team Leader

Travail Employment Group; Ripon; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Workplace pension

Healthcare scheme

21 days holiday + buy up to 5 days

Cycle to Work scheme

Refer a Friend bonus

Ongoing training and career developing

Job summary

Travail Employment Group is seeking a Maintenance Team Leader in Ripon to lead a hands-on maintenance team on a days-only shift. The role mixes supervision with practical engineering tasks across mechanical, electrical and PLC areas.

You’ll oversee planned and reactive maintenance, drive improvements and mentor engineers to uphold high safety and reliability standards on site.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or time-served equivalent background.
• Strong mechanical or electro-mechanical fitting experience.
• Confident fault finding on hydraulics, motors and control panels.
• Basic knowledge of control systems, PLCs and sensors.
• Previous experience supervising, mentoring or leading engineers would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the maintenance team while remaining hands-on.
• Oversee a maintenance workload split of around 70% mechanical and 30% electrical activity.
• Coordinate planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive breakdown response across site.
• Support fault finding, strip down, inspection and rebuild of machinery.
• Assist with electrical fault finding on wiring, motors and control panels.
• Support basic PLC fault diagnosis and helping the team resolve equipment issues efficiently.

Skills

Mechanical fitting

Supervisory experience

Fault finding

Electrical/electro-mechanical

PLC knowledge

Safety consciousness

Leadership by example

Physically fit

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or time-served equivalent background

Job description

Maintenance Team Leader

£41,000, Days Only (4 on / 4 off)

Join a well-established business in a hands‑on Maintenance Team Leader role offering variety, training and long‑term progression, while taking responsibility for leading day‑to‑day maintenance activity across site.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Fitter, Senior Engineer or Maintenance Team Leader who enjoys staying hands‑on while coordinating workload, supporting engineers and driving high standards across planned, reactive and improvement‑focused maintenance.

The Role

• Leading and supporting the maintenance team while remaining hands‑on with day‑to‑day engineering tasks
• Overseeing a maintenance workload split of around 70% mechanical and 30% electrical activity
• Coordinating planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive breakdown response across site
• Supporting fault finding, strip down, inspection and rebuild of machinery
• Assisting with electrical fault finding on wiring, motors and control panels
• Supporting basic PLC fault diagnosis and helping the team resolve equipment issues efficiently
• Leading installation, upgrades and commissioning activity for new equipment where required
• Working with hydraulic systems and lifting equipment, ensuring safe maintenance standards are followed
• Carrying out and overseeing MIG welding, racking repairs and general site maintenance tasks
• Maintaining mechanical handling and production equipment to support smooth operational performance
• Completing and coordinating condition‑based inspections including bearings, drives and alignment checks
• Identifying and implementing improvements to reliability, safety and equipment performance
• Allocating work, setting priorities and ensuring maintenance tasks are completed safely and efficiently
• Providing day‑to‑day guidance, support and technical input to engineers and maintenance fitters

About You

We're keen to hear from candidates with a solid engineering foundation, strong hands‑on maintenance experience and the confidence to lead others in a practical, site‑based role:

• NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or a time‑served equivalent background
• Strong mechanical or electro‑mechanical fitting experience
• Confident fault finding on hydraulics, motors and control panels
• Basic knowledge of control systems, PLCs and sensors
• Previous experience supervising, mentoring or leading engineers would be beneficial
• Comfortable allocating work, setting priorities and supporting the team on technical issues
• Comfortable with physical work and occasional working at height
• Safety‑conscious with a continuous improvement mindset
• A hands‑on leadership style with the ability to lead by example

This role would suit:

• Experienced Maintenance Fitters ready to step into a hands‑on team leader role
• Senior Engineers or Lead Engineers looking for a formal leadership opportunity
• Maintenance Team Leaders who still enjoy being on the tools
• Engineers seeking better work‑life balance or a move into a days‑only shift pattern

Shift Pattern

4 on / 4 off

6:00am - 6:00pm (days only - no nights)

Benefits

• Competitive salary of £41000
• Workplace pension
• Healthcare scheme
• 21 days holiday + option to buy up to 5 additional days
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Refer a Friend bonus
• Ongoing training and career development