Maintenance Leader

REQ ID: 114077
JOB TITLE: Maintenance Leader
SALARY: 36,600 - 46,400
POSTING END DATE: 12/03/23
LOCATION: Solihull

An ever-evolving heritage. A truly exciting future. Two of the world’s most iconic brands. Jaguar Land Rover is revered across the globe. Continually pushing the boundaries of innovation and redefining the benchmark for excellence, we set the standards others want to follow. We want to keep it that way too. Which is where you join the journey.

**WHAT TO EXPECT**

The Opportunity

In this leadership role, you will have the once in a lifetime opportunity to join a highly skilled, dynamic maintenance team based in Solihull.

You will contribute towards the long-term success of Jaguar Land Rover by leading your shift team in an uplifted body construction manufacturing facility with new manufacturing assets.

The manufacturing asset footprint includes numerous modern technologies encompassing automated multi-axis robots, automated welding and joining equipment, laser joining systems, automated conveyors, complex tooling and fixturing and lifting equipment to name but a few.

Delivering a premium product from your manufacturing facility, you will take extreme pride in being part of the maintenance operations team at Solihull, providing engineering maintenance support to maximise production efficiencies by maintaining all manufacturing assets and ancillary equipment within the manufacturing facility.

You will lead your team in adhering to standards and processes, ensuring the highest quality standards are achieved.

You will lead problem solving activities to ensure sustained improvements to business performance are yielded.

Through living and breathing our purpose, vision, strategy and transformation you will exemplify World Class maintenance skills, behaviours and competencies in all you do, maximising manufacturing efficiencies.

This will enable you to grow with the manufacturing facility and be a part of something very special within our global organisation.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Your key accountabilities and responsibilities include:

- Provide day-to-day leadership to the maintenance team to ensure a safe and efficient production performance is delivered within the Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People and Environment framework
- Comply to Health and Safety procedures by ensuring all safety metrics are achieved, including identifying safety hazards and risks and ensuring corrective action implemented and ensures the team receive appropriate training
- Support and maintain the area staffing and ensure it is within operational constraints to achieve operational targets
- Own and lead 5S and workplace organisation activities, validating effectiveness to standards
- Lead the team to carry out running checks and repairs, as well as the Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and Corrective Maintenance (CM) activities
- Ensure the achievement of equipment uptime objectives as directed
- Co-ordinate resource to ensure the right people are in the right place at the right time with the right tools for the task whist communicating clearly with the wider operations team
- Lead the major breakdown Practical Problem Solving (PPS) board from breakdown tipping point to Concern Report Out (CRO)
- Interfacing with the operational teams to ensure full visibility of current manufacturing requirements
- Lead the training and development of your maintenance team including delivery of behavioural, safety, technical and process training programs
- Lead your team in the achievement of environmental initiatives to maintain standards as required
- Support the delivery of Health and Safety initiatives to maintain standards as required
- Day-to-day management of waste within maintenance operations and continually seek efficiencies in all areas
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

**WHAT YOU’LL NEED**

Knowledge and Experience

Essential:

- Previous experience in a similar role within a maintenance operational environment in manufacturing
- Proven engineering maintenance technical skills gained from within a manufacturing environment
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively cross-functionally at different levels
- Able to work independently, manage priorities, and identify solutions to issues using own initiative, coupled with a strong desire to make a difference
- A ‘can do’ approach with a customer driven mindset
- Understanding of PLC’s/automation and control/mechanical systems
- Understanding of how maintenance contributes towards and effects operational delivery
- Operational acumen in order to prioritise your resources to where they are needed most
- A good level of computer literacy with the ability to use Microsoft office package elements
- Able to work a rotational shift pattern

Desirable:

- Holding either a HNC or HND in a relevant discipline
- Experience of environmental controls and practice