Maintenance Team Leader
- Job Reference: 8602
- Date Posted: 17 January 2025
- Employer: EMR UK Careers
- Location: Leeds, Kent
- Salary: On Application
Job Description
Package Description:
Great benefits such as:
• Bonus scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus each year you will have the option to buy and sell leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Wellbeing Scheme, provided through Health Shield, giving every colleague – and their dependents – unlimited access to GPs and counselling, as well as cash back on a wide range of health and wellbeing treatment
• Employee Support to include Life Assurance and critical illness pay
• 24/7 Colleague Assistance Programme and Financial Wellbeing Support – access to affordable loans, savings accounts, advanced earned pay, and financial education via salary finance
• Online savings- major retailers, utilities, entertainment plus many more!
About Our Opportunity:
Are you looking to have a sustainable career? Whilst truly making the world better, fairer and greener for the next generation.
You will be a true hero in the eyes of future generations to come. By playing a key part in our bold commitment to transform our business into a provider of net zero carbon sustainable materials by 2040. You truly will be making the world a be a better place to live for the next generation.
We require a skilled Mechanical Maintenance Engineer Team Leader to join our team working as a key maintenance team member, you will carry out reactive, predictive and planned maintenance.
What you will be doing:
As a vital part of our depots, our maintenance team plays a critical role in ensuring smooth operations through their expertise in both reactive and planned maintenance, preventing the business from coming to a standstill. You'll contribute to fostering a positive Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental culture while proactively working in a preventative environment to minimise breakdowns and failures.
Your hands-on approach to machinery maintenance and repair will include implementing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to address recurring issues and shape medium- and long-term strategies. You'll also maintain optimal levels of critical spares for routine maintenance and share troubleshooting insights to drive continuous improvement across EMR. Collaboration is key as you'll liaise with contractors to ensure compliance with proper RAMS, work with suppliers to secure the best quality, service, and cost, and keep all documentation updated on the CMMS system. Staying up to date with training and legislation, you'll join a team dedicated to condition monitoring, completing scheduled PPM tasks, addressing remedial work, and maintaining the entire plant for peak performance.
About You:
• Ideally if you come from an industry background in Heavy Engineering / Mining / Construction / Steel / Foundry environment this would be advantageous
• Combination of Electrical / Mechanical Bias
• H&S qualification equivalent to IOSH Managing safely
• First principles relating to the operation and maintenance of appropriate plant and equipment
• Maintenance and operational practices, processes and procedures covering a range of plant and equipment
Who We Are:
European Metal Recycling is a global leader in sustainable materials with physical operations in the UK, USA, Germany and the Netherlands. Our core business is the recycling of metal and plastics from a range of public, commercial and industrial waste streams. Our recycling activities generate around 10 million tonnes of sustainable materials every year, saving over 10 million tonnes of CO2.
Our mission is to have great people serving our customers with dependable recycling solutions. EMR is still privately owned, with family values at its core. It’s a place where we care about our people, our customers, our workplace and our communities. We offer diverse and exciting career opportunities where individuals can make a difference and are recognised and rewarded for their hard work.
Find out more about us at www.emrgroup.com
It goes without saying that you will need the correct licences or certificates for a variety of our roles.
However, at EMR we value the way we do things as much as the delivery. We call our expectations our Behaviours. They align with our Values of We Care and We Do, and they apply across all levels and roles in the business.
We Care
- Integrity – you are Respectful and Honest
- Trust – you are Collaborative and Genuine
We Do
- Accountable – you are Determined and Responsible
- Innovative – you have a Growth Mind-set and you are Progressive
The EMR Way - Our Behaviours will achieve success as One Team.
If you embody our Behaviours, we want to hear from you!
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