Technical Team Leader (Maintenance)
Location: Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Your Role
- Lead and coach the engineering team. You set clear direction, develop capability, and maintain team performance.
- Plan and schedule day-to-day maintenance activities. You ensure the correct priorities are followed.
- Promote safety leadership. You ensure 100% compliance and lead projects that improve engineering and equipment safety.
- Ensure 100% Maintenance and Calibration compliance.
- Ensure that all the departments' Non Conformances, deviations, CAPAs, and change requests are completed in line with the site's Quality Management System.
- Oversee the yearly processing plant maintenance shutdown and ensure activities meet safety and quality requirements.
- Drive maintenance improvement from preventive to condition-based approaches.
- Ensure 100% audit readiness through accurate documentation and full compliance.
- Resource maintenance tasks for future projects and support cross-functional planning.
- Hold full day-to-day authority for technical and managerial decisions linked to maintenance operations.
- Act as the engineering link to Operations, Quality, EHS, and Planning. You resolve issues quickly and keep all functions aligned.
Your Expertise
- Knowledge of manufacturing equipment and the maintenance of automated systems.
- Experience leading or coaching technical teams.
- Strong technical problem solving using structured methods such as 5 Why, Ishikawa, or DMAIC.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, process instructions, and quality standards.
- Experience coordinating maintenance, calibrations, and engineering interventions during live production.
- Competence in managing non-conformances, deviations, CAPAs, and change controls.
- Leadership experience in enforcing safety rules, quality discipline, and procedural compliance.
- Experience with CMMS systems.
Our Benefits
- 26 days' holiday with the option to buy or sell an additional 10
- Up to 10% employer pension contribution
- Share and bonus scheme
- Access to our flexible benefits from private medical insurance to dental cover
- Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities including 2 paid volunteering days per year and support from our 24/7 employee assistance programme
Equal Opportunity Employer
We welcome applications from individuals with disabilities.
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