Technician Manager

Diversey; Somercotes CP; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Diversey is seeking a Technician Manager to oversee day-to-day engineering activities and manage a team of technicians to ensure compliance with maintenance standards. You'll play a crucial role in operational performance, health and safety, and drive continuous improvement within the production site for cleaning chemicals.

Benefits

Annual leave: 25 days

Performance target bonus

Accident & Life Insurance: 1x to 4x annual salary

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

Employer contribution to pension insurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

PerkBox: Employee Discount and Wellbeing Platform

Qualifications

• A few years’ management experience in a similar role.
• Good understanding of manufacturing utilities plant equipment.
• Awareness of workplace and chemical hazards is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 10 engineers ensuring reactive and corrective maintenance.
• Drive operational performance of Safety, Quality, Speed, and Cost KPIs.
• Support production team in prioritising issues for performance improvement.

Skills

Management experience

Problem-solving

Team leadership

Health and Safety compliance

Operational performance improvement

Education

Electrical and/or Mechanical qualifications C&G, NVQ/ONC/HNC

Tools

MS Office (Word and Excel)

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As Technician Manager, you are responsible for the day-to-day engineering activities and management of the Shift Technicians running across 3 shifts, with a team of up to 10 engineers reporting to you. Your focus will be ensuring that reactive and corrective maintenance complies with all standards and is completed in a timely and efficient manner. This is a key role supporting the achievement of primary site KPIs.

You will be working alongside the Maintenance Leader who is responsible for Preventative maintenance, and reporting to the Engineering manager. In this respect, you will coordinate closely as an engineering management team to achieve improvement across the boards.

Our site in Cotes Park produces professional cleaning chemicals. Naturally, fast, accurate, and thorough repairs and corrective maintenance are critical to our success.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Driving operational performance of Safety, Quality, Speed, and Cost KPIs in their area and supporting the Engineering Manager.
• Complete management and scheduling of a team of 10 Technicians, ensuring key activities are delegated and the progress is monitored and tracked.
• Attending daily meetings with a cross-functional team.
• Supporting the production team in prioritising issues and utilising the team effectively to drive performance improvement.
• Playing a key role in introducing all new machinery and technologies to the site and improving production line effectiveness through breakdown investigations.
• Ensuring outstanding Health and Safety compliance, along with meeting local legislation and Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Active participation in site improvement processes.
• Coaching problem-solving tools such as 3Qs, 5 Why's, and ensuring root-cause investigation and correction.
• Ensuring complete investigations related to HSE/Quality incidents.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS

• A few years’ management experience in a similar role.
• Electrical and/or Mechanical qualifications C&G, NVQ/ONC/HNC.
• Previous experience within a Manufacturing Industry – various industries considered: Packaging, Food, FMCG, or Maintenance environment preferred.
• Good understanding of general manufacturing utilities plant equipment (Steam Boilers, Compressed air Plant, Water treatment Plant).
• Awareness of workplace and chemical hazards with the associated regulations is desirable.
• Proficiency in MS Office packages including Word and Excel.

BENEFITS PACKAGE

• Annual leave: 25 days (increases with length of service).
• Performance target bonus.
• Accident & Life Insurance: 1x to 4x annual salary (linked to employee pension contribution %).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay.
• Employer contribution to pension insurance (employee 3% & employer 5% or employee 4% & employer 6%).
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• PerkBox: Employee Discount and Wellbeing Platform.

ABOUT DIVERSEY

We are relentlessly pursuing our purpose to go beyond clean to take care of what’s precious. In today’s world of increasing resource scarcity—including water, energy, materials, and labour—we aim to achieve more with less for current and future generations.

We support every committed leader and employee of our customers, across all levels of the organization. We stand with buyers, chefs, building service contractors, food processing managers, nurses, doctors, dairy processors, hotel cleaners, head teachers, store managers, and many others who understand that hygiene and infection prevention are imperative to their business, reputation, and the environment.

Our commitment to caring for resources and our genuine concern for people, customers, and the environment distinguish us. Over 100 years, we have refined our solutions, which include patented chemicals, dosing and dispensing equipment, cleaning machines, services, and digital analysis.

*Note: Offer of employment is provisional until we receive satisfactory confirmation of your right to work in the UK, driver's license, and Disclosure and Barring check (where applicable).