Lead Maintenance Technician: PLCs, Robotics & Leadership

TotalEnergies Group; Portalegre; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

TotalEnergies Group in Portalegre, Portugal, seeks a skilled maintenance supervisor to lead a technical team in an industrial plant. The role combines hands-on management of maintenance tasks with strategic oversight to improve equipment reliability and safety.

You will supervise work, enforce procedures, plan spare parts manufacturing, and analyze losses to drive productivity gains. PLC/robot troubleshooting and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Training in mechanics/electricity/electrical engineering.
• Knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics and electromechanics.
• Experience in industrial maintenance.
• Experience in team management.
• Initiative, leadership and negotiation. Proactive, good communication skills, good interpersonal relationships and ability to work in a team.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the operation of maintenance work, with regard to the distribution of tasks by the team, and oversee the execution of equipment maintenance work.
• Know and apply the procedures of the maintenance sector.
• Determine the manufacturing process of spare parts and route them to manufacture.
• Analyze the production loss times due to maintenance, utilization, productivity, and labor efficiency, proposing actions for improving these indicators.
• Troubleshoot and program PLCs, drives, and robots.
• Critically analyze equipment shutdowns for corrective maintenance using this information to improve preventive maintenance.

Skills

Initiative

Leadership

Negotiation

Communication

Teamwork

Team management

Education

Training in mechanics/electricity/electrical engineering

Tools

PLC programming

Robot programming

Job description

TotalEnergies Group in Portalegre, Portugal, seeks a skilled maintenance supervisor to lead a technical team in an industrial plant. The role combines hands-on management of maintenance tasks with strategic oversight to improve equipment reliability and safety.

You will supervise work, enforce procedures, plan spare parts manufacturing, and analyze losses to drive productivity gains. PLC/robot troubleshooting and leadership are essential.