Maintenance Lead

at  Lineage Logistics

LEAD MAINTENANCE ENGINEER

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday (weekend work when required on an on-call basis) 08:30 to 17:00 40 hours per week with 1 hour for lunch daily.
Lineage Logistics the world’s largest provider of temperature-controlled logistics. We are a global company with more than 22,000 employees across the world.
We store, prepare, and move food-based products for a variety of customers from major retailers to schools, hospitals, and restaurants.
We are seeking a Lead Maintenance Engineer to help provide reactive and preventative maintenance on electrical and mechanical equipment at our Wisbech site.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Managing the performance of maintenance work, both preventative and corrective.
• Carrying out and registering mandatory inspections.
• Assess the in- and outsourced technical activities of Lineage in the designated site and develop existing and new talent.
• To provide advice and guidance (in consultation with HR) to the Site Manager on all recruitment, termination of employment, promotion, and salary/payroll issues of technical staff.
• Conducting appraisal and performance interviews.
• Responsible for the spare parts in accordance with the established procedure and ordering spare parts after approval.
• Responsible for an optimal stock of spare parts.
• If necessary, engage a supplier for the efficient handling of malfunctions/repairs.
• Work closely with the Site Management to ensure timely and correct coordination of the actions/activities to be taken.
• Administering company policies and manage local SOPs.
• Ensure accidents are investigated according to the company’s accident investigation procedures.
• Assist with resolving employee concerns and maintain open lines of communication with all levels of the organisation.
• Supervise, train, provide performance feedback and assign duties within Maintenance Team to ensure Health and safety are adhered to and conduct weekly meetings with the Site Management and engineering team.
• Resolve breakdowns, reduce downtime, and improve plant reliability.
• Support the maintenance and wider team in working together to solve problems to keep our facility moving.
• You will do this in a cold environment - approximately minus 20 degrees - just like working in the freezer; but we provide full PPE including coats, hats, and boots.
• At times work on ladders and safety harness at height.

• Managing the performance of maintenance work, both preventative and corrective.
• Carrying out and registering mandatory inspections.
• Assess the in- and outsourced technical activities of Lineage in the designated site and develop existing and new talent.
• To provide advice and guidance (in consultation with HR) to the Site Manager on all recruitment, termination of employment, promotion, and salary/payroll issues of technical staff.
• Conducting appraisal and performance interviews.
• Responsible for the spare parts in accordance with the established procedure and ordering spare parts after approval.
• Responsible for an optimal stock of spare parts.
• If necessary, engage a supplier for the efficient handling of malfunctions/repairs.
• Work closely with the Site Management to ensure timely and correct coordination of the actions/activities to be taken.
• Administering company policies and manage local SOPs.
• Ensure accidents are investigated according to the company’s accident investigation procedures.
• Assist with resolving employee concerns and maintain open lines of communication with all levels of the organisation.
• Supervise, train, provide performance feedback and assign duties within Maintenance Team to ensure Health and safety are adhered to and conduct weekly meetings with the Site Management and engineering team.
• Resolve breakdowns, reduce downtime, and improve plant reliability.
• Support the maintenance and wider team in working together to solve problems to keep our facility moving.
• You will do this in a cold environment - approximately minus 20 degrees - just like working in the freezer; but we provide full PPE including coats, hats, and boots.
• At times work on ladders and safety harness at height