Maintenance Lead - Night Shift
Maintenance Lead – Night Shift
Location: Macclesfield, UK
Competitive salary and benefits
Opening date: 07/05/2025
Closing date: 20/05/2025
Make a more meaningful impact to patients’ lives around the globe
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge within Engineering? We believe this is an attractive opportunity to join a dynamic business area at our AZ Macclesfield.
Macclesfield campus supplies products for most of the AstraZeneca therapy areas, to global markets and thus has great development opportunities. This position offers excellent challenges, and great rewards for the successful candidates who will gain training and experience in a fast paced, lean focused aseptic manufacture environment.
Working nights as a Maintenance Lead, you'll drive the delivery of asset performance within a leading modern sterile manufacturing facility.
Leading a team, you will support, mentor and develop engineering technicians to achieve outstanding asset performance through equipment expertise. You'll coordinate the performance of the asset care processes in terms of asset availability, performance & output quality. You will hold accountability for the asset care strategy, compliance and associated resources.
What you'll do
You'll be accountable for leading a team in a pioneering manufacturing facility, ensuring compliance of yourself and your team to internal and external regulations. This will involve monitoring and maintaining compliance in accordance with cGMP, SHE, Fiscal and Business procedures.
You'll be responsible for ensuring asset contribution to OEE (availability, performance and quality) that will be delivered successfully through world-class asset care processes and appropriate asset care strategy. Providing expert mentorship to your given business area regarding assets, asset care, asset performance and variability, you'll understand the asset, it’s performance, and how this performance is maintained.
We'll expect you to deliver Asset Care capability and Data driven improvements in order to deliver the business strategy. We'll need you to ensure that you have the right capabilities across all roles in your team.
As a dynamic leader you will optimise performance outcomes of your team and ensure individuals understand and are passionate about their contributions.
Essential Criteria
- Proven leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to cultivate high-performing teams and foster a positive, motivating work environment.
- Evidence of improvement in equipment performance and productivity
- A confident and engaging communicator who can influence a variety of partners to drive success
- You'll have a relevant engineering degree (preferred) or recognised engineering training route (e.g. apprenticeship with HNC/HND or equivalent)
- Experience of assets and asset care practices within a GMP / highly regulated / FMCG environment
Desirable Skills
- Understanding of TPM principles and evidence of deployment
- Ideally you will be Chartered or working towards Chartership with an appropriate engineering institution
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