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Engineering Team Leader
South Norfolk

Commutable from – Newmarket, Thetford, Bury St. Edmunds, Stowmarket, Diss, Attleborough
£39,000-£42,000

Monday-Friday Days

Benefits:-      25 Days Holiday + Banks, 6% Match Pension, Overtime, Life Assurance

Our client is a leading packaging manufacturing business, they are 1 of 2 companies in the UK that provide their particular products. Due to growth within the company they are looking for a hands-on engineering team leader to lead & develop their day-to-day maintenance activities.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day-to-day and week-to-week organisation of the engineering maintenance team
• Working really closely with the Engineering Manager to learn processes & procedures with the view of a succession plan step up role in the near future.
• Help to achieve targets for quality, cost, delivery and safety
• Provide electrical & mechanical support & repairs for all production & manufacturing machinery
• Workload allocation to engineers, PPM planning & scheduling, maintain records & reports
• Use of Piranha CMMS systems
• Staff training, holiday management, development plans, appraisals, disciplinaries
• Project work – machine upgrades, installations & continuous improvements
• Improve equipment reliability and operational OEE of manufacturing plant
• Dealing with pumps, motors, sensors, control systems, PLC’s, inverters, hydraulics, pneumatics

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Must be a multi-skilled engineer, ideally with an electrical biased
• Happy to be hands-on with the team when needed, carry out electrical & mechanical repairs
• Previously have worked as an engineering team leader or supervisor
• Ideally have some managerial task experience – budget control, department planning/development
• Worked in an industrial engineering maintenance capacity
• Be a strong, effective communicator and flexible character
• Have proven leadership skills and staff development / training experience
• PPM planning & scheduling – use of Shire
• Minimum Level 3 engineering qualified
• Ideally have worked in FMCG, industrial manufacturing or food production previously
• PLC – electrical fault finding skills
• Beneficial to have experience with mechanical fabrication, fitting, machining, welding
• Worked in a proactive PPM environment
• Strong industrial electrical fault finding experience
• Any knowledge of refrigeration systems would be great – FGAS certified

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