Maintenance Team Leader

Basic Function

The purpose of the job is to direct and manage technical team and resources to ensure planned maintenance schedules are delivered to agreed costs & times.
 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Line management responsibility for maintenance team and site planning engineer
• Maintain a consistent, proactive and positive approach to leadership to ensure a harmonious and effective employee relations climate within team.
• Ensure company and site HSE standards and procedures are consistently applied, while identifying and delivering opportunities for improvement within maintenance team. 
• Ensure maintenance operations are carried out meeting safety and environmental targets and good levels of housekeeping.
• Ensure inspection targets are met for all engineering disciplines, are in compliance with site targets and appropriate records updated.
• Monitor and review maintenance operations to ensure quality standards are maintained and improved.
• Manage and coordinate planned maintenance activities (preventive, reactive, shutdown events, projects, inspection, revenue expenditure and MOC activities) in conjunction with production personnel to enable the safe, efficient and cost effective care of assets.
• Monitor and review planned maintenance and reactive maintenance performance, supporting engineering team members in the diagnosis and correction of faults, to obtain continuous improvement in the efficiency and cost effectiveness of production operations.
• Provide, co-ordinate and manage contractor activity within area of responsibility ensuring cost effective utilisation.
• Responsible for the estimation, execution and cost control for all planned shutdowns.
• Preparation of shutdown budgets and project proposals and subsequent coordination of all shutdowns for production units along with other major works.
• Update and review inputs to SAP in a timely and accurate manner to optimize accuracy of maintenance cost control. 
• Management of maintenance workshop infrastructure and facilities.
• Management and control of all small /medium size maintenance contracts ensuring best value and maintenance cover.
• Management of main site maintenance contract to ensure compliance with current HSE legislation and delivery of all KPI’s
• Management of inspection schedules & resources to comply with both regulatory and LYB guidelines/standards. 
• Alert line manager on all issues associated with statutory inspections.
• Ensure Inspection M6 notifications are signed off and reports stored on G Drive with hard copies filed in DA folders.
• Ensure Inspection recommendations are input into SAP, M7 notifications.
• Plan, co-ordinate and participate in training program for members of the maintenance teams to maintain flexibility in the utilization of resources.
• Develop and maintain effective communication channels with Lyondellbasell and contractor personnel to ensure effective cross site coordination of production operations.
• Authorised Engineer (AE) site signatory for relevant discipline on Safety Certification
• Undertake responsibility as the Site Lifting Engineer Focal Point
• Deputise for the Site Maintenance Planner & Site Maintenance Manager
• Actively contribute to the development of a world class reliability culture on site
   

Qualifications and Experience

• HNC or higher in engineering discipline
• Minimum of 8-10 years post qualification working within the same or similar environment
• Knowledge of area equipment & maintenance activities
   

Person Specification

Critical Competencies/Behaviours:

• Directing others:  good at establishing clear directions, sets stretching objectives, distributes workload appropriately, maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results
• Customer focus: dedicated to meeting the customer expectations and requirements, gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements, acts with customers in mind, establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers
• Process management: figure out the processes necessary to get things done, know how to organise people and activities, understand how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow, look for opportunities for synergy and integration, get the best from available resources 

Skills:

• Good understanding and usage of SAP 
• Strong computer skills and proficient in MS Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project etc. 

Languages:

• Must be fluent in English. 
   

Terms and Conditions

Starting salary is negotiable commensurate with experience.
We offer a generous package including an annual bonus opportunity of 10%, based on company, site and individual performance
Working hours are 5 days/week, Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm with a half hour unpaid break for lunch.
25 days' paid holiday per year plus bank holidays increasing to 29 with service.
Defined contribution pension with employer contributions of up to 10% matching double employee contributions.
Private Health Insurance, Group Life and Group Income Protection Insurances, Health Cash Plan Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Employee Share Purchase Scheme.

Competencies