At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead maintenance operations, ensuring safety and efficiency across facilities and production equipment.
- Company: Join a long-established, family-owned organisation with strong values.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, private medical insurance, enhanced pension, and health cashback scheme.
- Other info: Flexible working hours and opportunities for continuous improvement and professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on performance and reliability in a critical leadership role.
- Qualifications: Strong electrical and mechanical skills, leadership experience, and problem-solving abilities.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
As Engineering / Maintenance Manager, you'll lead the maintenance function to keep our buildings, facilities and production equipment operating safely, reliably and efficiently. You'll shape a preventative maintenance culture, reduce downtime, manage budgets and contractors, and act as the vital link between engineering, production teams and senior leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Preventative Maintenance: Plan and deliver robust PM programs to prevent unexpected breakdowns.
- Data & Improvement: Analyse maintenance data, identify trends, improve processes and optimise performance. Report KPIs, departmental focus and potential risks monthly to the Board/SMT.
- Team Leadership: Recruit, train, schedule, supervise and motivate the maintenance team. Ensure the department is structured to support key operational functions.
- Maintenance Operations: Develop and implement maintenance strategies, procedures and standards; oversee repairs, upkeep and installations.
- Engagement: Work closely with site departments daily to drive performance, quality and efficiency through continuous improvement.
- Safety & Compliance: Enforce safety policies, procedures and regulatory standards.
- Asset & Facility Upkeep: Maintain maximum equipment efficiency while protecting facility standards.
- Budget & Cost Control: Manage budgets, procurement and costs while maintaining operational performance.
- Contractor Management: Control contractor performance, quality, budgets and safety.
- Support & Mentoring: Coach and support engineers with fault-finding, upgrades and best practice.
- Operational Resilience: Ensure resources are in place to react to out-of-hours breakdowns and minimise downtime.
What You'll Bring
- Technical Proficiency: Strong electrical and mechanical understanding; strategic thinker with excellent organisation and time management.
- Problem Solving: Confident diagnosing root causes and implementing effective solutions under pressure.
- Leadership & People Skills: Ability to motivate a diverse team and build strong working relationships across departments.
- Project / Design Skills: Experience using design/visualisation tools such as AutoCAD.
- Administration: Competent in budgeting, procurement, reporting and maintenance scheduling software.
- Flexibility: A flexible approach to working hours, supporting operational needs.
Why Join Us?
- A visible, site-critical leadership role with real influence on performance and reliability.
- The opportunity to embed preventative maintenance and continuous improvement across the business.
- Be part of a long-established, values-led, family-owned organisation.
- Group Life (Death In Service) at 3 x Annual Salary after probation.
- Private Medical Insurance with AXA after probation.
- Enhanced health & wellbeing cashback scheme with Simply Health from 3 months.
- Enhanced pension: 6.5% employee minimum, 7.0% employer contribution under Salary Exchange.
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