Maintenance Team Leader

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You're purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia's Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose 'to advance life around the world' drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it's facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for "good enough" when there's an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It's time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments

We are currently looking for a Maintenance Team Leader to join us at Forest Works. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Reporting to the Engineering Lead, the Maintenance Team Leader will be responsible for supervising and assisting the engineering activities of Forest Works Manufacturing processes to the achievement of planned site operational and Health & Safety objectives. The role will also be responsible for developing and influencing individual team members, ensuring that they are clearly aware of both their personal and their team objectives.

The role

• Active engagement with plant safety, raising of safety concerns and strict adherence to the 12 Work Safe Basics
• To be a hands-on (80/20% split practical/office based) member of the maintenance team, providing leadership and motivation to the engineering team
• Leading a multi-skilled engineering team including delegation of work and monitoring individuals and team performance
• Responsible for identifying and prioritizing pro-active and reactive maintenance tasks on a daily basis
• Supporting the Engineering Manager in the day to day running of the department
• Communicate with the site leadership team escalating any problems or issues related to production and engineering
• Ensuring best practice is followed by the team and shared across all shifts
• The writing of clear, concise handovers between shifts; capturing machines issues that could impact production
• Lead the shift on day-to-day maintenance activity maintaining machine availability
• Coordinate workplace organisation
• Liaise with Engineering Manager regarding Continuous Improvement and long-term projects
• Provide hands on support for shift teams
• Coach and mentor maintenance engineers to develop succession plan
• Identify training requirements of maintenance team
• Mentor apprentice(s) within the maintenance department
• To actively and analytically fault find
• Operate in line with all Wavin HS&E standards and procedures
• Responsible for overseeing plant safety including site emergency evacuation procedures
• Appropriate supervision of team and contractors including permit writing and inductions
• Drive Health & Safety and Environmental related issues to the Operational site leadership team
• Identify and implement PPM and AM schedules and activities, driving continuous improvement

Profile

• Previous experience of leading a team (desirable)
• Experience with digital maintenance planning software
• Exposure to the SQCPD (or equivalent) model
• Time served multi-skilled engineer, working within the manufacturing industry
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, experienced/confident communicating with personnel at all levels
• Effective organisational skills
• Excellent time management with the added need for flexibility as and when required to meet business needs

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers
Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin) Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.
Organization

Orbia's Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it's to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

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