Maintenance Technician Team Lead at Seven Up Bottling Company Limited (2 Openings)

Locations: Aba - Abia and Lagos
Industry: FMCG

Job Summary

• Maintenance Team Lead ensure all machines and equipment are always available for production use through practice of effective maintenance programs that reduce emergency breakdowns to the barest level, and at a minimum cost.

Responsibilities

• Identify jobs and allocate same to the technician for execution
• Supervises junior associates to ensure that they carry out jobs according to instructions
• To ensure that the necessary safety precautions are observed in executing tasks
• Logs and documents all maintenance activities in the required logbooks
• Ensures optimal spare parts and maintenance materials inventory management
• Develops and coaches, and provides feedback to team members for better performance
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers and stakeholders
• Learns best practices from outside and shares own best practices within SBC
• Promotes process automation and use of technology within the business
• Establishes, monitors and reinforces control on maintenance strategy execution in plant
• Schedules overhaul of production lines and facilities
• Improves efficiencies by increasing preventive maintenance across the plant and to minimise breakdowns and reduce mean time between failures.
• Ensures continuous and effective assets management
• Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data
• Maintains effective systems to ensure SBC/PI products and package quality.
• Ensures implementation of basic cycle maintenance, lubrication, cleaning and inspection (CIL) and instill these principles to be part of the culture of operators and technicians.
• Ensures proper upkeep and prevent loss of the tools and equipment in the engineering department.
• Take lead in change management for the engineering/maintenance department related to people structure or role changes, technology enhancement, regulatory and company initiatives on productivity.
• Ensures that their key customer – production and management are provided with prompt and reliable service.
• Plans and control weekly maintenance spending within the approved budget level. Ensures no overspending without proper approvals.

Requirements

• A minimum of Bachelor of Engineering Degree (B.Eng.) or HND in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering.
• 3 - 5 years relevant hands-on FMCG operation and maintenance experience
• Experience in people management
• Knowledge of bottling operation
• Coaching direct reports and mentoring others
• Ability to build and leverage relationships to improve results
• Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things
• Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy.
• Ability to influence situations without direct control of resources
• Good understanding of HQSE modalities and codes
• Good understanding of GMP and GHK (5S) standards
• Good oral communication, influencing and relationship skills.

Application Closing Date
11th September, 2026.

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: Careers@sevenup.org using the Job Title as the subject of the email.