Shift Leader - Maintenance

About the Role: Responsible for the reliability of assets and ensuring our production departments are operating at peak performance.

This is a full-time, permanent post working on a 2-shift rotation.

Week 1 - 6am - 2pm Monday to Thursday and 6am - 12pm Friday

Week 2 - 2pm - 12am Monday to Wednesday and 2pm - 10pm Thursday

Rate of pay is starting from £40,000 per annum, dependant on experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Delivery

• Meet targets and prioritise work according to the department plan
• Ensure planned and preventative maintenance is carried out as required.
• Critical spares – having the right stock available based on asset criticality and ensuring stock management and control processes are in place
• Ensure quality standards meet specifications
• Drive continuous improvement
• Ensure department is clean and orderly at all times
• Use problem solving techniques to support decision making
• Deputise for Head of Department
• Control of department costs
• Monitor performance identifying any performance related issues and implement capability or disciplinary procedure when required
• Duty of care to ensure the health and safety of your team
• Conduct recruitment activities, on-boarding, one-to-one meetings and PDRs
• Manage absence including but not limited to holidays and sickness absence
• Ensure effective communications with your team including running shift meetings, white boards and shift handovers

Demonstrate Leadership Behaviours

• Engage people’s hearts and minds
• Demonstrate personal humility & vulnerability
• Put common good before self interest
• Actively encourage connection and collaboration
• Demonstrate courage to challenge and change
• Listen, reflect and integrate diverse perspectives
• Take responsibility for excellence & performance
• Value expertise and sharing of knowledge

About You

Required

• Have completed a recognised apprenticeship in electrical or mechanical engineering AND/OR hold a Higher National Certificate (HNC) or equivalent experience
• Have a solid understanding of asset performance and maintenance philosophy
• Experienced in using computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS)
• Be commercially aware and embody the company’s leadership behaviours

About Us

Founded in 1797, Johnstons of Elgin is an innovative, luxury clothing brand celebrating 225 years of experience in working with the world’s finest fibres. Across three centuries, our family-owned company has carefully sources cashmere and fine woollen fibres from around the world, applying the latest technology and highest quality craft expertise in our very own vertical Scottish mills. Employing over 1,000 staff, our valued employees and communities are at the heart of everything we do, producing unique, high-quality designs that are made to last. Our brand is focused on sustainability, working with natural, renewable, and biodegradable fibres and we are committed to maintaining a minimal environmental footprint.

Johnstons of Elgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer wholeheartedly supporting the principles of equality and diversity to build an inclusive workforce. Our aim is to embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do to create an environment where our employees feel safe to be their whole authentic self without having to downplay or change parts of their identity. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, which goes beyond those characteristics protected by law to include everything that makes us unique, from our backgrounds and experiences to our personalities and ways of thinking.

We endeavour to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities and encourage any candidate who requires assistance to contact us at hr@johnstonsofelgin.com.

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement or qualification. At Johnstons of Elgin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but think your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other role

Please note all applicants must be able to provide evidence of their right to remain and take up paid employment in country job is based.

Closing date – Friday 16^th May 2025