Maintenance Engineer - Team Leader

About the Role

Ready to lead and succeed in a fast-paced FMCG manufacturing environment?

We are looking for a Maintenance Engineer Team Leader to complement our existing Telford Engineering team at Northwood.

You will be leading a team responsible for ensuring that the yearly business plan's efficiency, quality, cost, and safety objectives are met or exceeded, ensuring that our facilities, equipment, and machinery are maintained in a safe and cost-effective manner that maximises the overall equipment effectiveness.

This position is a full-time permanent role working a 4 on 4 off rotating day and night shift pattern. (0600 - 18 : 00 - 18 : 00- 06 : 00)

• Manage, coach and develop a high performing maintenance team
• Foster and promote the One Northwood Strategy
• Proactively ensure engineering key performance indicators are achieved
• Effective task assignments to team members to effectively utilise resources to achieve desired objectives across the site
• Act as a key decision maker for the engineering department out of hours in collaboration with shift manager
• Organisation of engineering parts / contractors within the shift, and a proactive approach to following up outstanding actions
• Support and Report, investigate incidents / injuries when required
• Play an active role in Identifying equipment issues, advising maintenance / operation teams on work needed and opportunities for improvement
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice maintenance strategies, systems, processes and procedures to improve equipment reliability and play an active role in the department’s problem-solving process

This Maintenance Engineer-Team Leader role would suit candidates with experience working with automated manufacturing equipment as a Mechanical Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, or Multi-Skill Engineer, with an Apprenticeship and HNC or equivalent qualifications in Mechanical Engineering. If this sounds like you, apply today!

• NVQ Level 5 / HNC / Degree Qualified Electrical Engineer
• Minimum NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Mechanical Maintenance
• Managed a small team
• Fault‑finding on mechanical / electrical equipment
• Pneumatic, PLC’s, Inverters and Servo and AC / DC drives
• 18th Edition qualified or equivalent
• Good IT skills – MS Office
• Ability to read complex electrical and engineering drawings

• Demonstrated ability to identify and implement equipment improvements.
• Demonstrated experience with implementation of best practice business improvement tools e.g., TPM, Lean.
• Experience working with CMMS.

Northwood is a family‑owned group of associated companies that provide the manufacturing, supply and transportation of paper hygiene and wiping products for both the away‑from‑home and consumer market.

Our mission is to be the market‑leading partner of choice in the away from home tissue industry. One of only a small handful of companies in the UK market that is fully vertically integrated;
Northwood is involved at each point in the supply chain, from raw material supply, tissue and towel manufacturing, end‑user product converting, storage and transportation.

Our remit is huge, with a portfolio of products covering two key systems brands, professional wiping, commodity, consumer paper and private label. We sell into a distribution network spanning the UK, Ireland and Europe, which in turn service markets such as healthcare, hospitality, hotels, engineering, janitorial, catering and education.

We are a highly successful, award‑winning and ambitious business that has grown from a humble paper sales business to a market leader employing over 800 colleagues, across 11 sites in the UK and Spain.

We differentiate ourselves by excelling in product quality alongside market‑leading service and sales support.

At Northwood, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone is welcomed and respected. We strive to promote a workplace that celebrates diversity and encourages individuals to express their opinions and beliefs. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all.

• Company pension
• Life assurance
• Free company products
• Free on‑site parking
• Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
• Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
• Free early access to pay scheme
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Employee referral scheme