Maintenance Leader (Solihull, GB)

REQ ID: 128451 JOB TITLE: Maintenance Leader SALARY: £37,682 - £50,000

POSTING START DATE: 26/03/2025

POSTING END DATE: 09/04/2025 LOCATION: Solihull - On Site (4 Shift Rotation)

Working in Manufacturing at JLR, you'll be the hands-on expert who brings innovation to life. You'll collaborate with a team of expert technicians and problem-solvers and use cutting-edge tools, facilities, and processes engineered together to build era-defining vehicles that people across the world know and love. Your expertise will directly impact the shaping of modern luxury. Together, let’s create the exceptional.

In this leadership role, you will have the once in a lifetime opportunity to join a highly skilled, dynamic maintenance team based in Solihull. You will contribute towards the long-term success of JLR by leading your shift team in an uplifted body construction manufacturing facility with new manufacturing assets.

Delivering a premium product from your manufacturing facility, you will take extreme pride in being part of the maintenance operations team at Solihull, providing engineering maintenance support to maximise production efficiencies by maintaining all manufacturing assets and ancillary equipment within the manufacturing facility.

You will lead your team in adhering to standards and processes, ensuring the highest quality standards are achieved. You will lead problem solving activities to ensure sustained improvements to business performance are yielded.

Through living and breathing our purpose, vision, strategy and transformation you will exemplify World Class maintenance skills, behaviours and competencies in all you do, maximising manufacturing efficiencies. This will enable you to grow with the manufacturing facility and be a part of something very special within our global organisation.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Provide day-to-day leadership to the maintenance team to ensure a safe and efficient production performance is delivered within the Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People and Environment framework Comply to Health and Safety procedures by ensuring all safety metrics are achieved, including identifying safety hazards and risks and ensuring corrective action implemented and ensures the team receive appropriate training Lead the major breakdown Practical Problem Solving (PPS) board from breakdown tipping point to Concern Report Out (CRO) Lead the training and development of your maintenance team including delivery of behavioural, safety, technical and process training programs Own and lead 5S and workplace organisation activities, validating effectiveness to standards Lead the team to carry out running checks and repairs, as well as the Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and Corrective Maintenance (CM) activities

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Able to work a rotational shift pattern Previous experience in a similar role within a maintenance operational environment in manufacturing Understanding of PLC’s/automation and control/mechanical systems Proven engineering maintenance technical skills gained from within a manufacturing environment Understanding of how maintenance contributes towards and effects operational delivery Operational acumen in order to prioritise your resources to where they are needed most

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs.

Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you’re unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role – but you're interested in where it could take you – we still encourage you to apply. We believe in people's ability to grow and develop within their role – it’s what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.