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ROLE: Mechanical Team Leader
HOURS: 38 hours per week
LOCATION: Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria, CA20 1PG
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Mechanical Team Leader who will act as the first point of contact for both the client and team members, ensuring high‑quality service delivery within the Hard Services team.
• Proactively manage client queries, providing feedback and escalating issues where required.
• Ensure all planned and reactive works are scheduled, delivered, and updated through Archibus in line with contractual and customer requirements.
• Lead stakeholder discussions to agree appropriate Safe Systems of Work (SSOW) and prepare all required documentation in accordance with legislative, client, and Mitie standards.
• Ensure robust pre‑job briefs, supervision arrangements, workface inspections, quality assurance and Lessons Learned processes are embedded across team operations.
• Take a proactive approach to Work in Progress (WIP), including progress updates, forecasting, escalation, issue resolution, and job completion.
• Coordinate with the planning team to schedule tasks efficiently, ensuring optimum resource utilisation.
• Report incidents, accidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions promptly.
• Deliver regular team briefs and maintain strong workforce engagement, escalating concerns where appropriate.
• Conduct workforce audits and assurance checks.
• Attend and actively participate in training, appraisal, and development activities.
• Coach and mentor team members to support their development, including guidance through Sellafield nomination processes.
• Support supervisory and management teams with reasonable requests and undertake additional duties aligned with the role.
• NVQ Level 3 in Mechanical Maintenance and Installation, or equivalent.
• Ability to liaise effectively with client representatives and management teams.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to coordinate work and collaborate across operational teams.
• Good general knowledge of facilities services and operational practices.
• Solid understanding of nuclear site procedures and operational standards.
• Previous Team Leader or Supervisory experience (advantageous).
• IOSH Managing Safely certificate.
• Full, clean UK driving licence.
• Strong coordination, facilitation, and time‑management skills.
• Computer literacy (desirable).
There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!
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Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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