Maintenance Unit Leader - Machining

FCA Fiat Chrysler Automobiles; Dundee; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive manufacturer in Dundee is seeking a Maintenance Unit Leader to oversee skilled trades within a high-volume manufacturing environment. This role involves coordinating safety, quality, delivery, and cost initiatives while driving improvements in maintenance and equipment efficiency. The ideal candidate will have a High School Diploma, significant industrial automation experience, and strong leadership skills. If you're organized and capable of mentoring teams, this is an excellent opportunity to impact operational success.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industrial automation experience with project management.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor skilled trade employees.
• Must be a goal-oriented self-starter with leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead skilled trades employees for maintenance objectives.
• Coordinate safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale initiatives.
• Drive throughput improvements and oversee maintenance activities.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Project management

Problem solving

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Maintenance Unit Leader leads and directs skilled trades employees to meet the objectives of the maintenance department in a fast paced, high volume, unionized, manufacturing environment. The selected candidate will coordinate safety, quality, delivery, cost and morale initiatives. Drive throughput improvements and coordinate professional maintenance and breakdown maintenance activities. Provide coaching and mentoring to team members (both hourly and supervisory) regarding World Class Manufacturing techniques for problem solving and corrective action implementation. Additional responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Possess a general level of technical understanding related to maintenance, time based maintenance (TBM), condition based maintenance (CBM), and dynamic maintenance (DM).

• Influence the key performance indicators (KPI’s), mean time between failure (MTBF) of components and equipment in their area, mean time to repair (MTTR), as well as maintaining equipment at basic conditions and continuous improvements of the equipment in their area.

• Address throughput, run to run, and downtime related issues with equipment in a production environment, supported by the Professional Maintenance Specialist (PMS) where applicable.

• Direct supervision of the Skilled Trades.

• Work with Skilled Trades staff in driving waste reduction efforts through implementation of methods / processes of the World Class Manufacturing (WCM); Autonomous Maintenance (AM), Professional Maintenance (PM), Quality Maintenance (QM), Focus Improvement (FI) and People Development (PD).

• Actively participate and lead kaizen project activities centered on Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) improvements and waste reduction opportunities identified through cost deployment.

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED

• Minimum 3 years of industrial automation experience with project management experience.

• Ability to work any shift and overtime as required.

• Excellent organization, written and oral communication skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with various levels of employees within all areas of the Plant from hourly represented employees to Senior Leadership as required.

• Ability to build effective business relationships with plant leadership and customers

• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously

• Demonstrated troubleshooting problem solving experience

• Goal oriented self-starter with ability to lead teams.

• Ability to coach/mentor/develop skilled trade employees

• Must have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office