Maintenance Technician Team Lead

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Seven Up Bottling Company Limited is hiring a Maintenance Technician Team Lead to oversee equipment maintenance programs across its FMCG bottling plants in Aba, Abia State and Lagos State. The role focuses on reducing breakdowns, managing maintenance teams, controlling budgets, and ensuring production equipment availability. Candidates need a B.Eng. or HND in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering with 3-5 years FMCG maintenance experience.

• Lead maintenance team across bottling plants in Aba and Lagos
• Requires B.Eng. or HND in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering
• 3-5 years FMCG operation and maintenance experience needed
• Application deadline is 11th September, 2026
• Send CV to Careers@sevenup.org with job title as subject

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Maintenance Technician Team Lead at Seven Up Bottling Company Limited (2 Openings) ⏲ Sep 1, 2026, 9:27 AM ⋕ View all Manufacturing & Production jobs Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the nation’s most- loved beverages in the country like; Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Teem, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water. SBC has recently entered into Home & Personal Care category with the 2SURE brand and launched its first product, a Hand & Surface Sanitizer. Seven Up boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Maintenance Technician Team Lead 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: Ensures proper upkeep and prevent loss of the tools and equipment in the engineering department. Identify jobs and allocate same to the technician for execution Supervises junior associates to ensure that they carry out jobs according to instructions Improves efficiencies by increasing preventive maintenance across the plant and to minimise breakdowns and reduce mean time between failures. Logs and documents all maintenance activities in the required logbooks Ensures that their key customer – production and management are provided with prompt and reliable service. Ensures continuous and effective assets management Plans and control weekly maintenance spending within the approved budget level. Ensures no overspending without proper approvals. Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers and stakeholders 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. Establishes, monitors and reinforces control on maintenance strategy execution in plant 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. To ensure that the necessary safety precautions are observed in executing tasks Learns best practices from outside and shares own best practices within SBC Ensures optimal spare parts and maintenance materials inventory management Develops and coaches, and provides feedback to team members for better performance Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data Schedules overhaul of production lines and facilities Maintains effective systems to ensure SBC/PI products and package quality. Promotes process automation and use of technology within the business Requirements: Good oral communication, influencing and relationship skills. Knowledge of bottling operation Experience: in people management Good understanding of GMP and GHK (5S) standards Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy. Ability to build and leverage relationships to improve results Coaching direct reports and mentoring others Ability to influence situations without direct control of resources Good understanding of HQSE modalities and codes 3 - 5 years relevant hands-on FMCG operation and maintenance experience: Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things A minimum of Bachelor of Engineering Degree (B.Eng.) or HND in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering. How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: Careers@sevenup.org using the Job Title as the subject of the email. Application Deadline: 11th September, 2026. View all Jobs in Nigeria Aba and 2 other locations Aba , Abia State , Lagos State