Night Shift Engineering Team Lead — Drive uptime & Growth

Whitworths; Wellingborough; In loco; GBP 45.000 - 60.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

33 days holiday

Competitive salary

Pension

KPI bonus scheme

Family friendly benefits

Health care cash plan

Onsite occupational health

Lifestyle benefits

Descrizione del lavoro

Whitworths is seeking an Engineering Team Leader to coordinate our night shift engineering team and keep the site running safely, reliably and efficiently. You’ll combine hands‑on technical leadership with practical people management on the factory floor.

You'll lead, respond to breakdowns, deliver the preventive maintenance programme and drive long‑term reliability improvements while maintaining high health and safety standards. This role offers development within Whitworths.

Competenze

• Experience as a qualified maintenance technician.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing controls and instrumentation.
• Electrical fault-finding and general maintenance skills.
• Ability to diagnose complex problems and deliver practical solutions.
• Proactive approach to planned and preventive maintenance.
• Organise workloads, set priorities, hold others accountable.
• Clear communication with colleagues at all levels.
• Support leadership and developing others.
• Good IT, administration and record‑keeping.
• Strong commitment to health, safety and high standards.

Mansioni

• Lead, organise and support the shift engineering team.
• Respond decisively to breakdowns and minimise downtime.
• Deliver the planned preventive maintenance programme.
• Identify recurring faults and drive lasting improvements.
• Plan repairs around production requirements with Operations.
• Maintain health‑and‑safety standards and safe systems of work.
• Coordinate contractors and issue permits to work when needed.
• Document machine settings and maintenance activity accurately.
• Manage spares and stock levels.
• Support machinery modifications and continuous improvement projects.
• Coach and develop your team through regular feedback and reviews.
• Build strong site relationships and provide a responsive service.

Conoscenze

Maintenance Technician

Manufacturing systems

Electrical fault finding

Problem diagnosis

Preventive maintenance

Workload management

Communication

Leadership

IT & records

Health & safety

Formazione

Time-served apprenticeship / BTEC / ONC / HNC / City & Guilds in engineering

Strumenti

PLC systems

Process equipment

Packaging equipment

Service equipment

Descrizione del lavoro

Whitworths is seeking an Engineering Team Leader to coordinate our night shift engineering team and keep the site running safely, reliably and efficiently. You’ll combine hands‑on technical leadership with practical people management on the factory floor.

You'll lead, respond to breakdowns, deliver the preventive maintenance programme and drive long‑term reliability improvements while maintaining high health and safety standards. This role offers development within Whitworths.