ATA Recruitment
Maintenance Team Leader
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Maintenance Team Leader
Salary: £53,000 with shift allowance
Shifts: Double Days (rotating 6am-2pm / 2pm-10pm)
Overtime: 1.5x Mon–Sat | 2x Sun & Bank Holidays
Holidays: 22 days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing with service
Benefits: 9% pension package | Life assurance - 4x annual salary | $3000 Annual tuition assistance
About the business
Join a well-established and financially secure organisation that continues to invest heavily in its people, equipment, and long-term future. With ongoing improvement projects, modernisation programmes, and a commitment to developing its engineering function, this is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious engineer looking to take the next step in their career.
Why join?
This role is ideal for an experienced engineer looking to progress into leadership, or for a current Maintenance Team Leader seeking a new challenge within a stable and supportive environment.
The business has a strong track record of developing its engineering staff and creating opportunities for progression. You'll have the chance to lead from the front, influence standards, support a team of engineers, and develop your management skills while remaining technically involved.
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Whether you're already working as a Maintenance Team Leader or you're an engineer with some supervisory, mentoring, or team-leading experience looking for a step up, this role offers the platform to develop your leadership career.
Role details
We are looking for a hands-on Maintenance Team Leader to support and coordinate a team of multi-skilled engineers across a busy operation. The successful candidate will split their time between supporting the team, coordinating maintenance activities, and remaining involved in practical engineering tasks.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading and supporting a team of engineers.
- Organising maintenance activities and prioritising workloads.
- Ensuring planned and reactive maintenance is completed safely and efficiently.
- Supporting fault finding and breakdown investigations.
- Monitoring team performance and standards.
- Liaising with operational teams to minimise downtime.
- Supporting continuous improvement and engineering projects.
Requirements
The business is very open to candidates from a wide range of engineering backgrounds and industries. They are interested in engineers who have some leadership exposure through mentoring, coordinating work, supporting apprentices, or deputising for management.
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Ideally, you will have:
- A recognised engineering qualification equivalent to a Level 3 or above (NVQ, City and Guilds, BTEC, ONC, HNC, etc.)
- Experience carrying out maintenance and fault finding within an engineering environment.
- Strong communication and organisational skills.
- The ability to motivate and support others.
- Experience coordinating workloads, projects, or people, either formally or informally.
- A proactive approach and a desire to progress your leadership career.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Maintenance Team Leader or aspiring leader to join a stable organisation where you can continue developing both your technical and management skills while building a long-term career.
Contact:
Faisal Ahmedy
ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
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