Maintenance Team Leader

We are seeking a Maintenance Team Leader to join our team at our headquarters in Maintal, near Frankfurt am Main. As a Maintenance Team Leader, you will be responsible for the technical and disciplinary leadership of the maintenance team in the mechanical and electrical areas.

Your tasks will include:

• Ensuring the technical availability, operational safety, and performance capability of production plants, building technology, and equipment
• Planning, controlling, and continuously optimising all maintenance, repair, and testing processes, including preventive maintenance
• Coordinating and prioritising fault clearance, repairs, conversions, and technical improvement measures during ongoing production operations
• Taking responsibility for technical error analysis and deriving sustainable measures to prevent faults and improve plant performance
• Deploying employees and controlling external service providers, craft firms, and maintenance partners
• Participating in investment projects, commissioning, technical changes, and the further development of plants and infrastructure
• Ensuring compliance with occupational safety, environmental, quality, and statutory requirements in the area of responsibility of the maintenance department
• Taking responsibility for technical documentation, key performance indicators, spare parts management, and budget planning and cost control in the maintenance department

You have:

• Completed studies in electrical engineering or comparable professional experience (e.g., technician in electrical engineering, master electrician/industrial electrician)
• Several years of professional experience in the maintenance of a production company, as well as experience in leading or technically managing employees
• Sound knowledge of maintenance, fault analysis, and optimisation of production plants, ideally in mechanical and electrical systems
• Pronounced leadership, organisational, and communication skills, as well as a high degree of sense of responsibility
• Experience in planning maintenance measures, using service providers, and dealing with technical documentation and key performance indicators
• Knowledge of occupational safety, environment, quality, and statutory operator obligations is advantageous. Participation and experience in KVP and Lean is desirable.
• Ability to take on the role of VEFK in the company is desirable.
• Safe handling of MS Office, ideally experience with maintenance or ERP systems
• Very good German language skills in writing and speech

We offer you:

• A secure job with a renowned special lubricant manufacturer and subsidiary of the FUCHS Group
• A challenging and varied activity in a collegial and open working environment
• Varied and responsible tasks with scope for design
• An attractive remuneration package including special benefits such as Christmas and holiday pay