Maintenance Team Lead
5 days ago
Coalville
JOB PURPOSE Manage plant-wide maintenance and capital investment programmes, maximizing asset reliability, uptime, and cost effectiveness with available resources. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES • Provides long-range planning for the plant and equipment needs including capital and major repairs., • Develops implements and oversees predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance programmes., • Uses other maintenance disciplines in the development and application of reliability engineering, root-cause analysis and fault-diagnosis of equipment and processes., • Coaches and develops all maintenance technicians, creating individual training and development plans, • Continually reviews the effectiveness of the service, ensuring that cost controls are maintained and internal customer expectations are managed, • Ensure support & cover for the site is maintained through the maintenance team., • Manage and control all site maintenance and engineering activities., • Drive and support process improvement activities in the pursuit of excellence., • Work with the Site Leadership Team to ensure that the level of service meets the business needs, developing long-term plans as required, • Ensure that all plant and equipment is regularly inspected in order to meet current Health, Safety and Environmental standards, insurance requirements and legislative compliance, • Develop a high-performance maintenance team, where individuals take responsibility for:, • o Following safe-working practices, • o Improving the performance of their designated machines, • o Managing one or more functions of the maintenance department, • o Maintaining good working relationships with machine operators, • o Accurate reporting of interventions and other activities, • Recruit and manage individual performance through formal performance review and one-to-one coaching, • Support each member of the team in his/her ongoing personal development, • o Multi-skills, • o Machine-specific technical know-how, • o Problem-solving skills, • Develop and implement a cost-effective maintenance programme comprising:, • o Planned, preventive maintenance, • o Predictive and condition-based maintenance, • o Targeted refurbishment programmes, • o Prioritised work-to lists and opportunistic maintenance, • Create an environment of Continuous Improvement where machine downtime and machine-related quality defects reduce with time, embracing the appropriate improvement tools eg., • Pareto analysis, • FMEA and RCFA, • CMMS, • Develop and manage a cost-effective spare-parts holding, • Support the TPM programme, in particular giving support where needed, • Report machine and departmental performance through agreed KPIs, • Manage projects and ensure that all machine modifications are controlled, • Meet current legislative requirements and best installation practices, • Risk assessed for human, product and equipment impacts, • Relevant documentation is updated, spare-parts holding modified, training provided, • Control expenditure within agreed budgets and provide ongoing, accurate forecast, • Manage site contractors to ensure that safe working practices are applied and that work is completed within the agreed timescales and cost. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS • Achieve departmental KPI’s, • Constantly strive to reduce downtime to agreed levels, • Meet and maintain customer requirements in terms of quality and output, • Compliance with all company’s quality standards, • Adherence to the company’s health safety & environment standards (HASAWA Act), • Maintain a good overall condition of work area through routine maintenance, • Accurate & efficient control of components including filing and good housekeeping practices, • Cost Saving, • Department housekeeping improvement – 5s continuous, • Training attendance GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES MANAGEMENT Maintenance Department SUPERVISORY Manager BUDGETARY Maintenance dept HEALTH & SAFETY Managerial CUSTOMERS Internal & External 3RD PARTIES Auditors as required SKILLS/QUALS • Graduate or HND in an Engineering discipline, • Have management/supervisory experience in a maintenance or engineering function, • Proven experience in project management, • Track record of improving processes and goal achievement, • Demonstrates strong communication skills and team leadership ability, • Has high level of numeracy with strong problem-solving skills, • Experience of modern maintenance practices including Reliability Centred Maintenance, use of CMMS, spare parts management, modification and documentation control, • Able to demonstrate effective maintenance resource planning and scheduling, • A good understanding of, Continuous Improvement /Six-sigma/Lean Manufacturing ideals and systems is desirable, • Health and Safety qualification or experience INTERPERSONAL SKILLS • Sense of urgency, • Energy and drive, • High standards, compliance mentality, • Analytical thinking, • People development, • Results focussed, • Positive attitude and commitment, • Ability to apply good practice and common sense in a people management environment, • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships, • Ability to influence others and generate new ideas, • Effective problem-solving and decision making, • Forward thinking, innovative and able to see the ‘bigger picture’