Maintenance Team Leader, Cramlington, Uk

What are we looking for?

Do you have a desire to work for a renewable energy provider? Do you have experience managing a maintenance team in the energy industry or are you looking for a change in direction but have the transferrable skills to make it in the renewable power generation industry? Are you ready to help us create ‘Ever Better Energy’?

What will you be doing?

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager the Maintenance Team Leaders is responsible for ensuring the overall maintenance and engineering integrity of the plant is maintained, optimized and improved to always provide safe generation and environmental performance of the plant.

A core focus of the role is also to ensure the plant and apparatus is maintained with respect to safety, environmental, OEM and industry recognised best practice guidelines, to deliver the highest levels of availability, reliability and efficiency, whilst always maintaining engineering integrity.

Summary of key responsibilities:

• Provide management and supervisory support to technicians within a multifunctional engineering and maintenance team. Engaging and developing all employees to maximise their potential to themselves and the business, delivering as a minimum annual and mid-term Performance Reviews for all direct reports.
• Maintain the plant against OEM guidance, applicable legislation and industry best practice to ensure the availability of the plant is maximised, taking proactive measures to improve plant reliability, efficiency and performance, whilst maintaining overall plant integrity in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
• Provide engineering support as required to the engineering/maintenance and operations team for plant technical issue resolution.
• Coordinate and plan the daily maintenance activities in line with the above agreed CMMS, operations team and QHSE lead to ensure maximum plant reliability & flexibility is achieved to high standards of quality, safety and environmental performance.
• Support with establishing of a long-term engineering integrity strategy and short/mid-term maintenance strategy for all mechanical/electrical and C&I assets within the site. Maintaining the asset risk register to provide guidance and inform the stations business plan.
• Write, review and revise, when necessary, instructions and procedures associated with plant engineering and engineering/design issues.
• Support and lead where required to ensure that Root Cause Investigations are carried out for all maintenance, health, safety and environmental issues that all actions are closed out in a timely manner and all learning is embedded within the unit and knowledge transferred to other BWSC sites.
• Deliver outage works, including general planning, scheduling and co-ordination, across BWSC GS UK staff and external providers.
• Implementing the company's health, safety quality and environmental management policies and actively participating in company/site HSE initiatives, including procedure reviews on a periodic basis.

Qualifications & Knowledge to succeed:

• Minimum of HNC/HND within an Engineering discipline with a high level of practical thermal plant engineering or maintenance experience (Qualifications below this may be acceptable if accompanied by suitable experience).
• NEBOSH Certificate is a preferred requirement.
• Experience of mechanical principles, electrical principles/experience up to 11Kv and C&I principles/experience including DSC/SCADA systems would be advantageous.
• A full understanding of modern maintenance practices, techniques and systems.
• Demonstrable engineering/maintenance experience, in a supervisory role.
• Excellent CMMS experience and understanding.
• Knowledge of KKS would be advantageous.
• Full UK driving licence.

What do we offer?

BWSC gives you access to a great network of possibilities. We build inspiring careers locally and internationally by working to our 1 Team, 1 Goal, 1 Standard ethos.

We offer a key position with great colleagues and the possibility to bring your skills into play and growth on a personal level. Whilst working as a Maintenance Team Leader at BWSC we offer a competitive starting salary of £60,000 depending on experience, and a great total reward package including:

• Health Care Cash Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Salary Exchange Pension contributions & fixed employer Pension contribution of 6%
• Contractual sick pay
• 34 days annual leave (inclusive of the 8 statutory Bank Holidays) with the addition of 1 extra days annual leave for every 5 years of service
• Life Assurance cover
• Enhanced paternity and maternity pay
• Opportunity to earn an annual bonus (depending on business performance)

This role is a full-time role contracted for 40 hours per week, working Monday to Friday.

Some occasional and ad-hoc national travel may be required.

Ready for a challenge?

For consideration for this position please apply submitting a CV, providing a brief summary of suitability and an indication of current or desired salary package.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK in order to apply.

The application deadline is 6th February 2026. We will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so please send your application today.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact Dave Trewick at datre@bwsc.dk.

BWSC no longer receive or handle applications received via email due to the directives of the GDPR. In order for your application to be processed, you must submit your application via our online recruitment system.

About Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC)

Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S (BWSC) is a global power plant Operation & Maintenance and technical service provider with engineering expertise, enabling power plant owners to deliver cleaner and affordable energy. We are experts in servicing, upgrading, operating, and maintaining energy systems for diesel, natural gas, and renewable baseload power plants. We help our customers increase reliability and availability of energy production, improve efficiency and performance of their power plant, design and integrate future-proof technologies, and secure lower cost of maintenance. Our people are at the core of everything we do and key to a positive relationship with our customers. We invest in our people and their wellbeing, to ensure continued success and growth of the company.

For more information about BWSC, please visit www.bwsc.com.