Maintenance Technician Team Lead
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Seven Up Bottling Company is hiring a Maintenance Team Lead for three openings across plants in Abia, Kano and Oyo. The role leads preventive and corrective maintenance, supervises technicians, controls maintenance budgets, and drives continuous equipment reliability within an FMCG manufacturing environment.
- Three openings available across Abia, Kano and Oyo plants
- FMCG/beverage manufacturing environment with automated bottling plants
- Leads preventive maintenance, CIL execution and breakdown reduction
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Seven Up Bottling Company is hiring a Maintenance Team Lead for three openings across plants in Abia, Kano and Oyo. The role leads preventive and corrective maintenance, supervises technicians, controls maintenance budgets, and drives continuous equipment reliability within an FMCG manufacturing environment.
- Three openings available across Abia, Kano and Oyo plants
- FMCG/beverage manufacturing environment with automated bottling plants
- Leads preventive maintenance, CIL execution and breakdown reduction
- Manages spare parts inventory and maintenance budget control
- Supervises junior technicians and drives process automation
- Permanent engineering leadership role with nine-plant national footprint
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Maintenance Technician Team Lead at Seven Up Bottling Company Limited (3 Openings)
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Oct 14, 2026, 12:06 PM
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Seven Up Bottling Company is one of the largest and oldest beverage manufacturing companies in Nigeria, operating nine automated bottling plants across the country.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Maintenance Team Lead
Locations:
Abia, Kano and Oyo
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.
Key Accountabilities
- Plans and control weekly maintenance spending within the approved budget level. Ensures no overspending without proper approvals.
- Establishes, monitors and reinforces control on maintenance strategy execution in plant
- 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 implementation of basic cycle maintenance, lubrication, cleaning and inspection (CIL) and instill these principles to be part of the culture of operators and technicians.
- Maintains effective systems to ensure SBC/PI products and package quality.
- Establishes and maintains productive relationships with team, internal customers and stakeholders
- Identify jobs and allocate same to the technician for execution
- Ensures continuous and effective assets management
- Ensures that their key customer – production and management are provided with prompt and reliable service.
- Ensures optimal spare parts and maintenance materials inventory management
- 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.
- Logs and documents all maintenance activities in the required logbooks
- Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data
- Promotes process automation and use of technology within the business
- Supervises junior associates to ensure that they carry out jobs according to instructions
- Ensures proper upkeep and prevent loss of the tools and equipment in the engineering department.
- Develops and coaches, and provides feedback to team members for better performance
- To ensure that the necessary safety precautions are observed in executing tasks
- Learns best practices from outside and shares own best practices within SBC
Requirements
- Ability to build and leverage relationships to improve results
- Knowledge of bottling operation
- Good understanding of GMP and GHK (5S) standards
- A minimum of Bachelor of Engineering Degree (B.Eng.) or HND in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering.
- Good understanding of HQSE modalities and codes
- Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy.
- Good oral communication, influencing and relationship skills.
- Experience in people management
- Coaching direct reports and mentoring others
- Ability to influence situations without direct control of resources
- Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things
- 3 – 5 years relevant hands-on FMCG operation and maintenance experience
- How to Apply
- Interested and qualified candidates should send CVs to:
- [email protected]
- using the Job Title as subject of the email.
- Application Deadline:
- 14th November, 2026.
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