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Engineering Maintenance Team Lead

Not specifiedFull-timeIndustrial Equipment MaintenancePharmaceuticals

Lead a team of maintenance technicians and oversee safe, compliant, and reliable maintenance operations for pharmaceutical production equipment, process systems, and site infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own safety, quality, and GMP-compliant work practices.
  • Manage, coach, and professionally develop a team of maintenance technicians.
  • Use SAP maintenance systems to create daily and weekly work plans, prioritize tasks, and allocate work according to production needs and operational constraints.
  • Oversee planned, preventive, and corrective maintenance.
  • Respond quickly to live equipment failures while maintaining operational continuity.
  • Troubleshoot complex mechanical issues involving production equipment, process systems, and infrastructure.
  • Analyze failures using root cause analysis and develop plans to improve equipment availability and reliability.
  • Collaborate with production, engineering, safety, quality, and QA teams.
  • Support new equipment implementation, installation, commissioning, and system upgrades.

Requirements

  • Mechanical engineering degree with at least 5 years of experience, or a mechanical engineering technician diploma with at least 10 years of experience maintaining equipment in the pharmaceutical, medical device, or food industry.
  • At least 5 years of experience managing a maintenance team.
  • Deep knowledge of mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
  • Ability to read and understand technical drawings.
  • Proven management and employee leadership skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and service-oriented communication skills.
  • Technical thinking and sound decision-making in dynamic, sometimes high-pressure environments.
  • High personal accountability, organization, and attention to detail.
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and manage work across multiple interfaces.

Nice to have

  • Experience with control systems

Benefits

  • Generous annual leave
  • Compensation programs
  • Work flexibility
  • Personalized medical support
  • Community contribution opportunities
  • Career development through learning programs and short-term projects

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