Ref: PTR13/636
Location: Bicester - commutable from Milton Keynes, Northampton, Oxford and Banbury
Description: Maintenance and Site Facilities Engineering Manager required for busy and successful Distribution Centre environment
Salary: Exceptional basic salary plus vehicle, bonus, pension and healthcare package negotiable dependant upon experience
Our client specialise in the design, development and implementation of automated materials handling solutions for supply throughout the UK and Europe, and as a result of an ongoing success and an aggressive programme of planned strategic growth, they are now seeking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic Residential Site Engineering and Facilities Manager to ensure operational efficiency and customer service commitments are maintained through effective PPM and reactive maintenance activities within a busy distribution centre environment.
Working 40 hours per week the successful candidate will be responsible for the day to day management of a multidiscipline engineering team and contract workforce, ensuring the delivery of key service elements such as planned preventative maintenance, fault rectification and fault eradication and delivering written and verbal communications at all levels and fully interacting with the customer on a day to day basis.
Tasked with driving continuous improvement on site with your teams, you will liaise with other engineering line managers to ensure consistency and best practice whilst complying with Health and Safety legislation and working within H&S guidelines and processes and conducting regular H&S audits of processes and equipment when required. Qualified to at least HND level in a relevant engineering discipline and able to demonstrate previous experience in a maintenance team management / team leader capacity, you will possess comprehensive H&S experience and excellent IT and communication skills (both verbal and written) to ensure effective liaison with both internal and external customers and suppliers.
You will be responsible for monitoring routine maintenance programmes and for the safe upkeep of all plant, automation and mechanical handling equipment within the distribution centre, and will propose and agree all capital proposals and plans whilst identifying opportunities for improvement in services or equipment and subsequently implementing and control such activities. Additionally you will possess essential diplomatic skills, as all decisions made on site are done so with the customer in mind and ensuring they receive a world class customer service, so you will embrace the team culture endorsed by their customer and effectively be able to analyse under high pressure and difficult situations and resolve issues accordingly. You will be able to understand teams strengths and weakness and through coaching and mentoring, maximise your teams performance whilst always striving for excellence and best practice in all tasks that are under taken.
To be considered for this varied and challenging role, you will demonstrate good all round engineering skills in both Electrical and Mechanical disciplines, and be able to undertake technical fault finding to component failure level and repair. You will be fully conversant will schematic drawings and will be comfortable in working autonomously or as part of a dynamic team committed to the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
Do you possess the relevant hands on skills and supervisory experience required to be successful in this position? Are you seeking a fresh challenge that will draw on all of your skills and experience gained as a hands on engineering professional and will now utilise other skills including commercial awareness, business development and customer service abilities within an automated materials handling environment? Then contact the Handling Team at Premier Technical Recruitment on 01827 68400 or email your cv in the strictest confidence to
