Maintenance Shift Lead

Maintenance Shift Lead

Our clients, a multi-national company, and looking for a Maintenance Shift leader. This will be a varied role, and work as part of a team providing 24 / 7 cover.

The Role:

• Organizing the shift with the available technicians to achieve the plan produced by the daily planner.
• Ensuring the production of the day is done, by regularly monitoring the activity of the team and giving clear short-term production objectives to each team member.
• Making decision on priority by adding or removing work from the plan relative to headcount and/or resource availability.
• Leading Start of shift Brief, Mid shift Brief, End of shift Brief by following the depot managers’ guidelines.
• Organizing a team meeting once a month / twice a month to manage the team : KPI, staff issue, training, company situation, etc.
• According to the daily activity, preparing the depot layout of the tram on each Workshop Lane and each Stabling Lane to ensure the team’s efficiency.
• Working closely with the control room to manage Tram movements in the workshop and allocating resource on it.
• Collaboration with Infrastructure on works to be planned and modified to meet the business needs.
• Ensuring a start-of-shift and end-of-shift status routine to avoid safety issue, ensuring complete tooling and a clear and tidy workshop.
• Tracking the daily maintenance on tramways.
• Ensuring the daily routine maintenance, exam, modifications, reliability project, overhaul program are done correctly by respecting work instruction and delay and communicating with the daily planner.
• Ensuring a great historical record of serial number to get a perfect maintenance tree: drag and drop, record historic of parts, etc.
• Stores parts picking when the store is closed and when store assistants are missing.
• Giving the Feedback on price, cost to repair or to subcontract to ensure the Depot Manager the best and final decision.

The Role:

• Engineering or Business qualification.is required
• Minimum five years’ experience working in a technical company
• Management/supervisory experience is a plus
• Strong working knowledge of Irish Health & Safety and Environmental legislation is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience of Tram systems (or other rolling stock) is recommended.
• ICT skills with good knowledge of maintenance management system, MS Office
• Experience of working in a unionised maintenance environment on a shift basis
• Strong leadership and influencing skills: ability to engage with people at all levels in the hierarchy in order to develop and agree clear actions plans.
• Determination and ability to advance the Maintenance Performance agenda: a clear enthusiasm and commitment to delivering continuous improvement in maintenance performance.
• Ability to understand trends and reports, understand their implications and potential effects ,upon customers and the company, and take action to respond in an appropriate, considered and articulated way.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills: ability to engage with staff, customers and stakeholders at all levels in order to understand their concerns and identify innovative solutions and opportunities for improvement.

For more information please call Keith on 01 912 1892 or email keith@executiveedge.ie