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United Utilities

Maintenance Team Leader

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £51,233 per annum
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Job Description

The Role

Are you working in a mechanical, electrical or instrumentation maintenance role and starting to think about what’s next? This is an opportunity to step off the tools and into a leadership role—while staying connected to your technical expertise.

We’re looking for a Maintenance Team Leader who understands the realities of working in the field—someone who brings practical experience, sound judgement, and a collaborative approach. This role is about using your knowledge to lead, support and develop a team of engineers, while contributing to strong, consistent standards across maintenance and reliability.

You’ll move beyond day-to-day reactive work and begin to shape how maintenance is delivered—coaching others, improving performance, and building a more proactive, forward-looking approach.

This is a natural next step for an engineer who is ready to grow their impact, support others to succeed, and take on broader responsibility in a supportive and performance-focused environment.

Role Accountabilities

  • You’ll promote a culture where safety and wellbeing come first, ensuring your team works confidently, responsibly, and in line with all regulatory requirements.
  • You’ll plan and adapt maintenance activities across your area, balancing priorities to keep assets reliable while supporting your team with clear, achievable direction.
  • You’ll encourage a proactive approach—supporting your team to complete preventative work effectively, identify issues early, and improve asset performance over time.
  • You’ll help create an organised, safe and well-equipped environment where people can do their best work and feel supported in maintaining high standards.
  • You’ll work to ensure critical parts and materials are available when needed, with clear and reliable processes that support smooth day-to-day operations.

Essential Skills & Experience

You’ll bring hands-on experience in a maintenance environment, along with a recognised qualification in either Mechanical, Electrical or Instrumentation engineering, and the ability to understand and resolve asset issues.
Whether you’ve already led a team or are ready to jump into leadership, you have the ability to guide, and develop others while maintaining high standards.
You can engage effectively with a range of people, sharing information clearly and building positive working relationships.
You’re able to manage changing priorities, stay organised, and help your team remain focused and productive in a dynamic environment.
You’re comfortable using IT systems and data to understand performance, identify trends, and support informed decision-making.

Locations we are recruiting for.....

  • Davyhulme
  • Bolton/Bury
  • Leigh
  • Stockport
  • Manchester

Interested? What to include in your application

To help us assess your application fairly, please make sure your CV clearly demonstrates your relevant skills, experience and achievements against the requirements of the role. This will help us understand how your experience aligns with what we're looking for.

The application journey has 3 key stages for this role:

When applying, we’d love to see a CV that highlights your relevant maintenance experience and technical background—this will help us understand your journey and what you can bring to the role.

💧Our Talent Acquisition team will review your CV

💧We will share with our operational team-if you are successful, you’ll be invited to interview.
💧An competency based Interview and presentation will take place at one of our site.

What's in it for you

Salary £51,233 Up to 7.5% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements
A generous annual leave package of 26 days, which increases to 30 days after four years of service (increases one day per year), in addition to 8 bank holidays
A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover
A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme
MyGymDiscounts - gym and wellness benefit that offers up to 25% off on gym memberships and digital fitness subscriptions
Best Doctors
Salary Finance
Wealth at Work courses
Deals and discounts
EVolve Car Scheme
Employee Assistance Plan
Mental health first aiders
ShareBuy
MORE Choices flexible benefits
Enhanced parental leave schemes

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Company benefits

26 days annual leave + bank holidays
Annual bonus
Buy or sell annual leave – Buy or sell up to 5 days per year
Death in service – covered for 4 times pensionable earnings
Cinema discounts
Employee recognition scheme – Colleague led recognition scheme with monthly winners
Cycle to work scheme
Dental coverage
Collaboration spaces
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Employee assistance programme
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced pension match/contribution – Up to 21% combined contributions
Enhanced sick days
Ergonomic workstations
Faith rooms
Family health insurance
Further education support
Gym membership – On-site gym at our head office & discounts on local gyms for those not based there
Health cash plan
Health insurance
In house training
Mental health days – 1 wellbeing day per year (on top of annual leave entitlement)
Mental health first aiders
Compassionate leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Mental health platform access
On-site gym
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Adoption leave
Private GP service
Professional subscriptions
Referral bonus
Neonatal leave
Reservist leave
Restaurant discounts
Secure on-site parking
Sensory-Friendly Setup
Shared parental leave
Will writing
Carer’s leave
On-site childcare
Pregnancy support
Income protection

Working at United Utilities

Company employees:

7,000

Gender diversity (m:f):

65:35

Hiring in countries

United Kingdom

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