Maintenance Team Leader

Location: between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: £39, 280 - £50,000 + additional allowances (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Ready to play your part?

At AWE, it's not just a job, it's far more than that. Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part?

AWE is currently recruiting for a Maintenance Team Leader. As Maintenance Team Leader, you'll take the lead in supervising and supporting asset maintenance and delivery teams. This is a hands-on, varied role where you'll be central to ensuring our plant and equipment remain reliable, safe and fully operational to meet programme requirements.

If you're seeking a role where no two days are the same, where your expertise keeps essential assets running and your leadership helps guide a skilled team, this could be the opportunity you've been waiting for.

Who are we looking for?

We do need you to have the following:

• An ONC, NVQ Level 3 or BTEC equivalent gained through an Apprenticeship OR College route in engineering

• Experience of managing a team

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Proven experience as a Maintenance Engineer/Supervisor or similar within an industrial or commercial manufacturing environment

• Leadership skills with experience managing or mentoring a team

• Good understanding of current health and safety legislation

• Strong technical skills in electrical engineering.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

• Commitment to ongoing improvement, suggesting modifications to existing machinery or processes to enhance efficiency, safety, or performance

• Experience of using diagnostic tools and methods to identify root causes of problems.

• EC&I knowledge, training or qualifications

• City and Guilds 2382-18 18th Edition wiring regulation

• Experience using asset management platforms for planning, scheduling or reporting

Work hard, be rewarded:

We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.

• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).

• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.

• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.

• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.

• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).

• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.

• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

Due to the classified nature of the work involved, there are limited opportunities to work from home in this role. xbpsjku It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time working on site.