Maintenance Team Lead (5-Shifts)

Career Category

Maintenance

Job Description

At Amgen, our mission is simple: to serve patients. Every day, our teams ensure that critical manufacturing processes run safely, reliably, and compliantly — enabling the delivery of life-changing medicines to millions of patients worldwide. Join us as:

Maintenance Team Lead (5-Shifts)

At Amgen Breda, medicines are labeled, assembled, stored, and shipped to countries around the world. Every day, more than 1,000 colleagues from over 40 nationalities contribute to supply chain operations, manufacturing, marketing and sales of our medicines, and clinical research into new therapies.

LIVE

What you will do

As one of our hands-on maintenance team leads, you play a key leadership role on the shop floor in your shift. You combine technical expertise with a passion for coaching, developing, and guiding people. This is a position where your impact is felt through coordination, team performance and technical expertise.

In this role, you are the shift lead for a team of 3-4 maintenance technicians. You are visible on the floor, work hands-on when needed, and create an environment where your team can perform, grow, and take ownership. You will collaborate closely with the other maintenance Team Leads from the other shifts to ensure alignment and continuity.

Your responsibilities include:

• •Leading, coaching, and developing a team of 3 maintenance technicians in your shift to handle breakdowns independently.
• •Creating a safe, engaged, and high-performing team culture.
• •Planning, prioritizing, and coordinating maintenance activities.
• •Leading shift handovers to ensure ownership in the next shift.
• •Collaborating closely with Production, Engineering and Quality to tackle challenges.
• •Hands-on maintenance work when needed.

WIN

What we expect from you

• •Technical background in maintenance (e.g., Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics).
• •Proven experience in leading, coaching, or mentoring maintenance technicians (formal or informal).
• •A visible, hands-on leadership style — you lead by example on the shop floor and take ownership of decisions.
• •Strong communication skills and a natural coaching mindset.
• •Experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment (GMP experience is a plus).
• •Work in a 5-shift roster.

THRIVE

What you can expect from Amgen

As we work to develop treatments that care for others, we also invest in the growth, well-being and development of our teammates. Amgen has been recognized as a World’s Best Workplace.

• •Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our broad site operations department.
• •Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act.
• •Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising competitive salary, bonus structure, fixed 13th month, holiday allowance and collective health insurance.
• •Focus on vitality with an on-site gym, sports fields and a restaurant with healthy food.

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