Maintenance Shift Engineer Team Leader

Job Advert – Shift Engineering Team Leader

Location: Barrow upon Soar
Company: Brett Landscaping and Building Products
Department: Maintenance

Are you a hands-on engineering leader with a passion for driving performance, reliability, and safety?
Brett Landscaping and Building Products are seeking a Shift Engineering Team Leader to play a key role in ensuring our production facilities run at world-class efficiency.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead, mentor, and support the maintenance team to deliver peak equipment performance.
• Plan and execute preventive maintenance to minimise downtime.
• Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and PLC-controlled systems.
• Drive improvements in OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) through proactive maintenance.
• Ensure a safe working environment and promote best practices in SHE (Safety, Health, and Environment).
• Collaborate across departments to support production targets and continuous improvement initiatives.

What We’re Looking For:

• Time-served mechanical/electrical apprenticeship (minimum Level 3 qualification).
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop a team.
• Experience in maintenance of industrial/manufacturing plant (preferably precast concrete equipment).
• Problem-solving mind-set with strong fault diagnosis skills.
• Excellent communication and team-building ability.
• Commitment to high standards of safety, quality, and professionalism.

Desirable: HNC/ONC qualification, 18th Edition, PLC knowledge, and experience in lean manufacturing.

 Why Join Our Team?

• Be a key leader in a growing, dynamic manufacturing environment.
• Opportunity to make a real impact by improving reliability and efficiency.
• Competitive salary + benefits package.
• Career growth through training, mentorship, and development opportunities.

At Brett, we value customer care, integrity, and quality in everything we do. You’ll be part of a company that invests in people, fosters teamwork, and continually strives for improvement.

If you’re ready to take on this exciting leadership role and make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

We'll Offer You

Brett is the UK’s largest independently owned building materials Group with over 60 sites across the South, South East, East and Midlands and employing over 750 people.

Part of the Brett Group, Brett Landscaping and Building Products produces and supplies a variety of hard landscaping and building products including block and decorative paving, decorative aggregates, and specialist kerbs. Primarily distributed through builders’ merchants and garden centres, all our products are backed by technical and product expertise.

With a reputation for excellence, we offer superb development opportunities to people keen to be a part of our continued growth. As an independent business we can offer real job satisfaction in an environment which encourages you to contribute, supports you in getting the job done and enables you to become part of a team that delivers building materials for big ideas.