Job Title

Team Leader

Job Description

The company

Vanderlande is the market leader in efficient logistics process automation within the airports and parcel sector. In addition, we are a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses.

Vanderlande has a strong strategic partnership with Heathrow Airport. Heathrow, with more than 80 million passengers a year, is the most active airport in Europe having the most connections to other airports. All these passengers expect their luggage to reach the same destination. That’s where Vanderlande comes in as a strategic partner with full responsibility of the performance and maintenance of Heathrow’s baggage handling systems.

Your role

Working within London Heathrow Airport, the Team Leader will be responsible for providing daily leadership and continuous guidance to your team, ensuring Health and Safety is paramount during all operational and maintenance activities along with interaction with internal and external customers. You will be performing the following tasks:

• Ensuring that Safety is always paramount during all Operational and Maintenance activities.
• Conducting quality auditing of work, and productivity checks and taking appropriate action if/when required
• Constantly displays the desire to learn and help others in their progression

Additional responsibilities:

Day Shift.

• Issue PPM workorders out to shifts, close off all PCM and CM’s
• Attend system outages, to assist technicians in resolving the faults before escalating to LLCST.
•  Keep daily report up-to date with system issues and handovers, including raising work orders for the night shift.
• Stepping in to cover Duty Engineers in their absence.
• Attending H&S meetings.

Night shift

• Plan the shift PPM maintenance / project work including handovers from the day shift.
• PPM work orders to be completed and filled out to the required standard.
• Complete and send out nightly report e-mail of works completed, including handovers, project work, system issues etc.

What we expect from you

As a Service Technician you make an important contribution to customer satisfaction, whereby the continuity of the customer process is central. You therefore have an enthusiastic and proactive attitude and are flexible. We expect the following of you:

• Working in Airports and/or Conveyor Systems in a Supervisory capacity preferred
• Multi skilled Electro/Mech, minimum at senior tech level, preferred supervisory experience
• Qualifications, Minimum NVQ 3 Electro/Mech, preferred HNC or equivalent.

What we see as a nice to have:

• 18th Edition (BS 7671 / wiring regs)
• You have gained experience within an FMCG manufacturing or automated environment
• Experience in training/coaching

What we offer:

• Performance related pay
• 288 Hours Holiday
• Aviva Medical Cover & Pension
• YuLife - Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
• Achievers – Employee social recognition and rewards platform.
• A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.