Mechanical Team Lead

Amcor Limited; Swansea; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Amcor is seeking a Mechanical Team Lead to oversee the Mechanical Department across the Swansea site, driving safe, reliable maintenance and dependable production to meet customer requirements.

You will lead a team, coordinate planned maintenance, manage machine changeovers, and partner with engineers to enhance process capability while delivering monthly performance reports and ensuring adherence to safety, quality and cost targets.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years manufacturing experience
• Time served craftsman with hands-on maintenance skills
• Supervisory experience is advantageous
• Manufacturing Engineering experience (SOPs, plant layout, waste elimination)
• Small capital expense project management capabilities
• Flexibility on working hours to meet business demands
• Decision making and strong business judgement
• Team oriented and communicative

Responsibilities

• Manage Mechanical Maintenance team, ensuring development and upskilling
• Deliver world-class maintenance service to customers
• Meet targets for safety, quality, hygiene, productivity, waste and costs
• Identify and implement areas for continued improvement
• Investigate and be involved in disciplinary procedures as needed
• Interview future employees and input on hires
• Coordinate with Planning on Planned Maintenance and downtime
• Collaborate with Supervisors to ensure smooth production
• Improve manufacturing process capability with engineers
• Maintain maintenance data and produce monthly performance reports
• Liaise on projects (installations, product development, improvements)
• Manage obsolescence and spare parts sourcing with suppliers
• Work closely with Electrical Maintenance and perform hands-on tasks when needed
• Oversee Engineering Contractor management and communications
• Ensure policies on safety, quality, hygiene, HR are enforced

Job description

Department: Operations/Production/Manufacturing

Full-time or Part-time: Full-Time

Job Type: Employee

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet. More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world‑class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

Position Job Title: Mechanical Team Lead

BG and BU: Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East & Africa (AFEMEA) FP&PC - Meat

Function: Operations

Line Manager’s Job Title: Engineering Manager

Advertising Legal Entity: Amcor Flexibles Swansea Ltd.

JOB PURPOSE

To effectively manage the Mechanical Department and team, encouraging and fostering a culture that focuses on service, safety, quality and production in line with customer requirements. To manage all Mechanical maintenance functions on a day-to-day basis throughout the plant. To also oversee the smooth running of all Mechanical services.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Manage Mechanical Maintenance team, ensuring team members are developed, challenged and constantly upskilled
• Manage Mechanical Maintenance Department to deliver world class service to customers
• Ensure all departmental targets are met - safety; quality; hygiene; productivity; waste; costs
• Identify, implement and recommend areas for on-going improvement of service and department
• Initiate disciplinary procedures and involvement in subsequent stages as necessary
• Interview for future employees and have input into final decision;
• Negotiate with Planning Department to effectively manage Planned Maintenance, machine changeovers, machine downtimes for maintenance activities etc.
• Liaise with all department Supervisors to ensure the smooth running of the production area
• Liaise with Mechanical Engineer and Manufacturing Engineer to improve capability of the manufacturing process
• Monitor maintenance data daily (e.g. log books, PM data, etc.) and take appropriate actions. Proactively highlight findings to Senior Management when necessary
• Produce monthly maintenance reports on maintenance performance, or as necessary
• Liaise with appropriate personnel on projects (e.g. installations; product development; technical improvements; etc.)
• Obsolesce management & spare part identification from drawings and liaising with suppliers to source components
• Work closely with Electrical Maintenance Department
• Hands-on the tools where necessary.
• Full responsibility for Engineering Contractor Management and Control
• Communicate key events and ensure there are clear channels of communication at all levels within the department
• Ensure application and enforcement of all company policies and procedures (health & safety; quality; hygiene; HR; etc.)

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

• Good organisational and time management skills
• Time served craftsman, with minimum of 5 years manufacturing experience
• Supervisory experience will be an advantage
• Manufacturing Engineering experience (Standard Operations, plant layout, waste elimination, continuous improvement, engineering change control)
• Small capital expense project management capabilities
• Flexibility on working hours to meet business demands
• Decision making, sound business judgement;
• Team orientated;
• Communication and presentation skills
• Organised.

About Amcor

Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.
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