Maintenance Team Leader - Mechanical

Knauf UK & Ireland; Sittingbourne; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Maintenance Team Leader (Mechanical) for their Sittingbourne Plant. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated team in ensuring efficient maintenance operations while upholding safety standards. The ideal candidate will have a multi-skilled background with strong leadership capabilities and a commitment to excellence. Join a values-driven organization that prioritizes safety and innovation, and take the next step in your career with a company that invests in its people and their development.

Benefits

Up to £55,000 + bonus

Three paid days leave for community commitments

7% employer pension contribution

Level 3 Westfield Cashplan Healthcare

Income Protection

Access to Reward & Benefits platform

Employee Assistance Program

Life Assurance (x 4 times salary)

Cycle to Work Scheme

Tech Scheme

Qualifications

• Completed a multi-skilled apprenticeship or equivalent.
• Strong management and leadership skills required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance technicians ensuring alignment with plant objectives.
• Develop team performance through mentoring and technical support.

Skills

Management Skills

Leadership Skills

Health & Safety Compliance

Multi-skilled Electrical/Mechanical

Communication Skills

Education

Multi-skilled Apprenticeship

Vocational Qualifications

Tools

MS Office

SAP

Job description

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Knauf stands for opportunity. We know that opportunity looks different to each person and we are proud that we see opportunity in everyone. This exciting role within the Engineering Team could be the perfect next opportunity for you to build a unique career, in a values-led culture with a clear purpose of making tomorrow a home for all of us.

As a Group we are a global manufacturer of construction materials and our 41,500 team members in 90 countries across 300 sites provide a huge opportunity for anyone with ambition and energy. We value everyone's contribution equally and we ask that you bring your whole self to work, to enrich the business further, as together we achieve more in a safe and inclusive environment.

We are searching for a Maintenance Team Leader (Mechanical) at our Sittingbourne Plant in Kent.

Can you say yes?

• Have you completed a multi-skilled (with a mechanical bias) apprenticeship or equivalent?
• Do you have strong management & leadership skills?
• Do you demonstrate and lead by example when it comes to safety standards, process and regulations?
  
  

If so we would welcome your application.

What You'll Be Doing

The Maintenance Team Leader is responsible for the management, supervision, coordination and development of the shift-based maintenance technicians. Through this team, the MTL ensures efficient and effective preventative and reactive maintenance of plant assets. As a leadership role within the maintenance function, the MTL also has a collective responsibility to ensure plant, process and infrastructure safety, performance, availability, and reliability.

Main Responsibilities Include

• To lead the team of on-shift maintenance technicians, ensuring their activities are aligned with plant objectives on planned and reactive maintenance (process utilisation and availability metrics), engaging with the shift manager team as required.
• To develop the team, including technical support, performance appraisal and reviews, mentoring and development, standards, and discipline.
• To develop a suite of documented processes, technical standards, diagnostic aids and risk assessments for routine maintenance activities.
• Together with the Operational team, to engage in planned maintenance activity scheduling and coordination, ensuring that tasks are appropriate, standardised, and executed on time and to the right standard.
• To engage with topical specialists from within the wider Knauf group both to develop process knowledge and technical competence, and to share best practice.
• To coordinate and supervise, service & repair contractors, always ensuring the opportunity to develop maintenance practices and record appropriately.
• Provide an active contribution to the activities and responsibilities of the engineering department & workshop, supporting and providing cover for colleagues where required.
• Health & Safety: Functional support, driving safety standards & excellence. Ensuring compliance audit actions are duly completed and maintained. Supporting regulatory audits.
• Acting as site nominated specialist ensuring compliance, maintenance & service for our LEV, DSEAR & Other engineering related legislation.
  
  

What We'd Love For You To Have

• Strong management & Leadership skills.
• Awareness of current workplace health and safety legislation.
• Multi skilled electrical/mechanical vocational qualifications, apprenticeship or equivalent.
• Specialist engineering competence in a mechanical and/or electrical vocation.
• Experience working with automated plant and equipment.
• Process competencies to develop technical expertise.
• Articulate, literate and numerate with good communication skills.
• Well-developed IT skills including MS office; SAP skills are an advantage.
  
  

We Will Provide

• Up to £55,000 + bonus
• Three paid days leave for community, charitable, or voluntary commitments.
• 7% employer pension contribution.
• Level 3 Westfield Cashplan Healthcare.
• Income Protection
• Access to a Reward & Benefits platform.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (legal or medical advice).
• Life Assurance (x 4 times your basic salary).
• Cycle to Work Scheme and Tech Scheme
  
  

What happens next?

We appreciate that your time is precious and applying for a new job can be a lengthy process - so we have committed to replying to your application within three working days.

We are one of the leading manufacturers of gypsum-based building materials in the UK.

We are proud to be a part of the Knauf Group, one of the largest independent building materials manufacturers in the world.

We sell plasterboard, plaster, metal sections, flooring, external renders, insulating laminates, drywall accessories and more and have more than 250 production facilities and sales organisations in over 86 countries. We employee over 35,000 people worldwide.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Wholesale Building Materials

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