Maintenance Engineering Team Leader - Electrical Bias

Maintenance Engineering Team Leader - Electrical Bias

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Engineering Team Leader to join our team at Florette in Lichfield (WS13 8NF). You'll report into and assist the Maintenance Manager in managing a team of Maintenance Engineers. You will also carry out engineering duties alongside your team, ensuring routine servicing and conducting repairs across the site is performed at a high quality. The successful candidate will be electrically biased or strongly multi-skilled across both electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines.

This role is perfect for a current Maintenance Engineer with proven team-leading and managing skills that is wanting to move into a formal Team Leader position. You will have a good knowledge of both preventative and reactive maintenance, ideally within a food manufacturing environment. We're really excited about what's in store for our Engineering department in 2025. We're midway through implementing plans to develop/replace some of the equipment on our site, with further projects in the works! This role offers an opportunity for a proactive and innovative individual to drive forward technological advancements and make a significant contribution to the future of engineering projects within our organisation, that will give the successful candidate notable expansions in their personal development and overall skillset.

Pay: £56,000 per annum

Working hours: Panama Shift - 12 hour shifts | Rotating days & nights | 7am-7pm & 7pm-7am.

Main Responsibilities
• Motivate and lead a team of engineers and contractors whilst encouraging EPIC behaviours (Excellence, Positivity, Innovation and Co-operation)
• Day to day upkeep of Production Equipment.
• Site-wide Preventative Maintenance.
• Reacting to breakdowns quickly in order to reduce downtime.
• Equipment repair, technical repairing, in addition to factory start up and testing.
• Ensure implementation of hygiene and safety regulations, the wearing of protective clothing and the correct use and maintenance of hardware available whilst following general compliance with internal regulations and labour legislation.

Skills and Experience Required
• A proven experienced leader with good people skills is essential.
• Technical Hands-On-Engineering Experience, ideally within a food manufacturing environment, and happy to lead a shift of engineers whilst remaining on the tools.
• A Multi-Skilled Engineer with strong knowledge of both Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, desirably with experience of working with Hydraulics, Pneumatics, and PC/Inverter Assets.
• Relevant technical qualifications in either mechanical or electrical fields at a minimum NVQ Level 3, ideally through a recognised time served apprenticeship.
• Experience and knowledge of Planned Maintenance and PPM development, with an eye for continuous process improvement.
• Specific experience of prioritising resources in a busy environment.

What You Will Get In Return

An annual salary of £56,000, with a range of employee benefits you’d expect from a market leading business, including:
• Life Assurance: 3x your basic salary paid to your nominated beneficiary.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Providing a Remote GP service along with a 24/7 helpline for financial, legal, medical and life issues.
• Annual leave entitlement: 23 days annual leave per annum inclusive of UK Bank Holidays that increases with service, as well as an option to purchase an additional working week of holiday.
• Training and Development: Personalised induction as well as regular training and development courses and schemes.
• Benefits Platforms: Employee discount platform for multiple retailers as well as salary finance schemes for bicycles, gyms, and financial assistance.
• Other: Recognition awards, Regular Employee Engagement days, attendance incentives, an annual volunteering day, and a free staff transport service to and from site covering Lichfield, Burton on Trent, Cannock, Rugeley, and Burntwood.

About Us

Florette is one of three UK food manufacturing factories within Agrial Fresh Produce, which is an autonomous part of the larger 22,000 employee strong French co-operative group, Agrial.

The business operates mainly under it's recognisable Florette salad brand and we are one of the UK’s leading producers in the industry. Under the well-known Florette brand, our site processes and distributes pre-packed, ready to eat, fresh salad bags and bowls to some of the UK's most well-known supermarkets and retailers, as well as your favourite restaurants and fast food vendors. In total, we sell around 600,000kg of products every week - an unbe-leaf-able amount!

Agrial has operations across 18 regions, with 280 farming outlets and 5 different divisions, which comprise Beverage, Dairy, Meat, Fresh Produce & Agricultural operations; it’s not just about lettuce! As well as the 3 factories we also have a farming operation – Agrial Fresh Farms. All UK sites operate under the name of Agrial Fresh Produce Limited and fall under Agrial's vegetable division. We have a recipe for success through our EPIC values and working together as one team.

Next Steps

It’s an exciting time to join our business as we look for new starters to join us in innovating in everything we do! We’re looking for positive and driven people to join our professional team. If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, and want a fresh challenge we would love for you to join us on our journey!

Please apply directly or alternatively contact Will Kaye, Recruitment Officer for a totally confidential discussion.

Agrial Fresh Produce reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

VISA Sponsorship: We are unable to provide VISA sponsorship, and therefore cannot employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. Our recruitment process will ask you to provide evidence of your Right to Work in the UK.

Agrial Fresh Produce Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer. In addition, as part of Responsible Recruitment, Agrial Fresh Produce Ltd believes in the Employer Pay Principle. No worker should pay for a job – the costs of recruitment should be borne not by the worker but by the employer.

We are committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of all of our staff. That’s why we’ve taken the Mental Health at Work Commitment and are currently delivering a programme of activities to ensure that everyone can have open and honest conversations about their wellbeing in the workplace and feel supported. We encourage applications from persons with experience of poor mental health and are committed to supporting our employees to fulfil their potential and perform at their best in work