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The rewards and benefits on offer:

* Bonus- Up to 25% bonus based on personal performance and company performance.

* A full time and permanent role from day 1!

* The opportunity to work for an industry leading employer

* Company Pension Contribution - 5%

* Healthcare plan - Bupa PHC & Medicash Cash Plan

* Holidays - 25 days holiday + 8 Bank Holidays (26 after 5 years’ service)

* Life Assurance - £50,000 death in service benefit.

Mtrec’s new opportunity:

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious Heavy Engineering client, based in Gateshead, with their internal growth. We are supporting with their recruitment needs by recruiting a permanent Maintenance Lead to join their organisation. A successful candidate will be responsible for reporting activity from the maintenance department into the Maintenance Manager, leading a team of multiskilled engineers to achieve predetermined KPI’s, as well as, offering hands on support towards maintenance PPM Schedules. If you are an experienced Lead Maintenance Technician with electrical and mechanical skills, apply now for an immediate response!

The job you will do:

* Monitor, manage, report and achieve maintenance targets and KPI’S

* Set objectives and provide support for team members to enable the team to meet the KPI’s agreed with the Maintenance Manager

* Monitor engineering and maintenance expenses and improvement programmes designed to reduce costs while maintaining product quality and asset utilisation.

* Develop and lead continuous Improvement activities

* Promote & maintain awareness and compliance of H&S and Environmental legislation in accordance with best practice and legal requirement.

* Ensure that the necessary manpower, competence, skill, knowledge and tooling required is to achieve maintenance (availability and reliability) targets.

* Building and developing a high performing engineering and maintenance team through promoting and upholding company performance standards and best practice.

* Ensuring that the appropriate systems and processes are in place to measure and manage staff performance and to coach and develop a high-performance workforce.

* Address any staff discipline or grievance issue, maintaining appropriate records in accordance with company procedures.

* To coach and mentor direct reports ensuring an effective response to any daily tasks to improve the overall engineering and maintenance quality of work and service

* To produce the maximum uptime using exacting engineering and maintenance standards in the most efficient method possible.

* To actively manage all functions ensuring maintenance standards are delivered through best practice.

* Implement and deliver an engineering and maintenance continuous improvement strategy across all areas of the business.

* The preparation of and implementation and monitoring of a preventative maintenance plan and other continuous improvement activities.

About you:

* Ideally educated to the HNC in Manufacturing/Mechanical /Engineering and have a relevant professional institute qualification.

* Possess a broad background in mechanical / electrical engineering and manufacturing with a wide range of knowledge on manufacturing and production processes, preferably sheet metal related.

* Have a minimum of 5 years of experience in people management and team involvement.

* Have a minimum of 5 years of experience in Maintenance repair & Preventative maintenance.

* Have a high level of understanding of Health and Safety and Environmental best practice and legislation.

* Possess experience in the operating within ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System.

* Ability to build a high-performance maintenance and engineering team who can operate efficiently, effectively, productively and cost effectively.

* Possess the ability to work productively, efficiently & effectively with initiative and drive under tight timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality