Mechanical Team Leader

Mechanical Team Leader

Location: Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire (commutable from Cleethorpes, Scunthorpe, Stallingborough and Grainthorpe)

Salary: £39,000 - £44,000 depending on skills and qualifications

Full Time

Permanent

Lenzing makes cellulose fibre from managed natural wood sources using sustainable cutting edge processes for textile, non-wovens and technical end uses.

We are innovative by nature. How about you?

We have an opportunity at our Grimsby LYOCELL Fibre manufacturing site for a Mechanical Team Leader.

Responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of the Mechanical Engineering Technicians, this role will have a primary focus of optimising plant Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to maximise the safe production of fibre.

Key responsibilities of this role

• Manage a team of Mechanical Technicians in a fair and consistent way, including performance management and coordinating training requirements for the team.
• Ensure that all work is planned and executed in a safe and efficient way, with minimum possible impact on production.
• Act as a key contact between Engineering and Operations teams to ensure engineering activities are effectively organised and executed.
• Assist in prioritising, planning and executing weekly mechanical maintenance activities.
• Promote quality of work, continuous improvement and right first time culture across all maintenance activity.
• Identify and implement engineering solutions to improve plant availability and reduce costs.
• Ensure, Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) matters are appropriately managed across the team and actively support site SHE strategy.

Our ideal candidate

• Educated to HNC level or equivalent.
• An experienced Engineering Team Leader with proven track record and thorough understanding of process plant, equipment and engineering standards.
• Experience of leading and influencing a team, successfully implementing change and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills at all levels.
• Excellent planning, organisational, training and teamwork skills.
• Excellent IT skills, with proficiency in MS Office, ERP/SAP experience would be a bonus.
• Strong health and safety awareness.

Why work for Lenzing

• Competitive salary and pension.
• Be an integral part of a profitable business.
• Excellent development and training opportunities.
• Opportunity to work for an environmentally sustainable business, using recycled and renewable resources to produce specialty products. Aiming to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
• We take pride in our track record on Health & Safety and the fact that our proactive response to Covid-19 has allowed us to not only keep our employees and their jobs safe throughout 2020 and into 2021, but will continue to do so well into the future.

Closing Date: 30th June 2021

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