This is a shopfloor-focused leadership role where you'll take day-to-day ownership of maintenance activities, leading from the front and supporting your team to deliver high standards across safety, reliability and performance.
You'll coordinate the maintenance plan, respond to breakdowns, and work closely with production and site functions to ensure equipment availability meets operational needs. You'll also step up to deputise for the Engineering Manager when required.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead and coordinate the maintenance team on a daily basis, ensuring work is planned, prioritised and completed safely and effectively
- Take ownership of the daily and weekly maintenance plan, balancing planned, reactive and corrective work
- Provide hands-on technical support, troubleshooting equipment issues and restoring plant safely following breakdowns
- Drive improvements in equipment reliability, leading root-cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes
- Ensure full compliance with HSE, food safety and quality standards (including HACCP, BRCGS, GMP and UK regulations)
- Monitor key KPIs such as downtime, PM compliance and repeat failures, taking action to improve performance
- Work closely with Production, Quality, HSE and Planning teams to align maintenance priorities
- Manage contractors and ensure all work is safely controlled and completed to required standards
- Support engineering projects, modifications and small capital improvements
- Maintain accurate records within the CMMS and ensure effective management of spares and assets
- Promote a proactive maintenance culture focused on prevention, not just reaction
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience leading or supervising a maintenance or engineering team in a manufacturing environment (food, FMCG or process preferred)
- Strong hands-on mechanical and electrical fault-finding skills
- A practical, structured approach to problem-solving and root cause analysis
- Experience with planned and preventive maintenance systems (CMMS)
- Ability to stay calm and decisive under pressure, particularly during breakdowns
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across site functions
- A leadership style focused on coaching, accountability and continuous improvement
- Food manufacturing standards such as HACCP, BRCGS, GMP
- Experience with packaging equipment, process plant, utilities or automation
- Contractor management and safe systems of work
- Health & Safety qualifications (IOSH, NEBOSH)
Why Join ADM?
- Be part of a global organisation with strong investment in people, technology and innovation
- Work in a collaborative, supportive site environment where engineering is highly valued
- Opportunity to make a real impact on reliability, performance and continuous improvement
- Career development within a business that spans multiple sites and disciplines
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Maintenance Manager in Stafford employer: ADM
At ADM Erith, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture of continuous improvement and safety, making us an exceptional employer for Process Engineers. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through ongoing training opportunities and collaboration with a dedicated team that values innovation and efficiency. Located in a dynamic environment, we offer a supportive workplace where your contributions directly impact production excellence and safety standards.
