Maintenance Lead

Maintenance Lead focuses on coordinating and execute the planned preventative maintenance program, ensuring all engineering tasks are completed efficiently to maximise equipment reliability and uptime.

What the role involves

• Coordinating and execute the Planned Preventative Maintenance program, ensuring all engineering tasks are completed efficiently to maximise equipment reliability and uptime.
• Delivering the site engineering maintenance strategy, driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, quality standards, and overall operational performance.
• Provide technical support for fault-finding activities, both on-site and remotely, ensuring rapid resolution of issues affecting production or engineering systems.
• Ensure full compliance with health, safety, food safety, and legal requirements, implementing safe systems of work and maintaining a safe environment.
• Managing engineering assets including stores, contractors, permits to work, and multi-skilled engineering teams while controlling budgets effectively and meeting targets.
• Lead engineering projects across full lifecycle, including planning, execution, reporting, and ensuring delivery aligns with business objectives and timelines.

Skills and requirements

• Proven experience within FMCG or food manufacturing environments.
• Experience in a similar role, such as (engineering team leader, engineering supervisor, maintenance lead, engineering shift manager, maintenance supervisor).
• Strong mechanical and electrical engineering skills with dual-skilled capability, supported by hands-on experience in maintenance and fault-finding activities.
• Relevant qualifications such as NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, or ONC/HNC in engineering, plus completed advanced or food engineering apprenticeship.

Confirmed role details

• Monday to Friday, 40 Hours Per Week.
• This is an excellent opportunity for a Lead Engineer to join an FMCG Manufacturer in York, to ensure effective care of the machinery, services, utilities and infrastructure of the.