Maintenance Team Leader

Job Overview

Shift: Monday - Friday - early / late / nights

Engineering Team Leader. This role is part of a modern, high‑tech manufacturing site in Banbury. The company has heavily invested in advanced automation, high‑speed production lines, and continuous improvement initiatives, providing an excellent workplace for engineers seeking career development, technical growth and future leadership opportunities.

You will supervise the engineering team that performs electrical and mechanical maintenance, fault‑finding and planned preventative maintenance on automated and semi‑automated production machinery, ensuring maximum uptime and efficiency in a fast‑paced environment.

Sector: Automotive

• Supervise a team of engineers to carry out both electrical and mechanical maintenance, fault‑finding and planned preventive maintenance on automated and semi‑automated production machinery.
• Reduce downtime, improve reliability and support production performance across the site.

• Maintenance experience within an industrial manufacturing or automation environment.
• Hands‑on experience with pre‑planned, reactive and breakdown maintenance in a fast‑paced industrial factory.
• Team Leadership experience.

• Hands‑on electrical fault‑finding experience.
• Recognised engineering qualification (NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds or equivalent).
• Experience working within a manufacturing environment.
• Mechanical maintenance experience (motors, gearboxes, bearings, pneumatics and hydraulics).
• Basic PLC fault‑finding experience advantageous.

• Experience working as an Engineering Team Leader in the UK.
• Previous experience within Automotive, FMCG, food, beverage or packaging environments.

• Working for a market‑leading manufacturing business.
• Competitive salary up to £58,000.
• Company benefits package including pension and life insurance.
• Overtime opportunities.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Long‑term job security within a stable and growing organisation.