Maintenance Manager

Salary: £55,500 - £68,000 depending on experience

Location: Stockton-Upon-Tees

Contract: Full time & permanent

The Opportunity

As Maintenance Manager, you’ll lead the day-to-day operations of the maintenance function across all shifts at our Stockton facility, a world-class steel fabrication site supporting our Leicester assembly plant. You’ll be responsible for general and preventative maintenance of buildings, equipment, and critical systems, managing a team of hourly maintenance and utilities personnel including two Team Leaders. This role also carries accountability for an annual expense budget of approximately £2 million.

What you will do:

• Champion health, safety, and environmental compliance across the site, ensuring adherence to legislation and driving a proactive safety culture through audits, risk assessments, and incident investigations.
• Oversee planned and reactive maintenance of buildings, equipment, and systems to minimise downtime and maintain operational efficiency.
• Ensure alignment with ISO standards and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead the coordination of mechanical and electrical contractors under permit control.
• Oversee tender evaluations, capital investments, and shutdown activities, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, and within budget.
• Own departmental budget planning and cost control, including managing a £2m annual budget and scheduling resources effectively to meet operational needs.
• Provide leadership and development for hourly personnel across shifts, including Team Leaders.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing teams to support equipment installations, relocations, and environmental/energy improvement projects that enhance long-term site performance.

What You Can Demonstrate:

• Manufacturing Safety: Expert in manufacturing safety, with a proven track record of leading inspections, developing emergency response procedures, and ensuring full compliance with HSE regulations. Promotes a strong safety culture and proactively identifies and resolves risks.
• Manufacturing Standards, Procedures and Policies: Applies and supports manufacturing standards within their area, contributes to procedure development, and provides feedback for improvement. Understands the rationale behind policies and escalates exceptions appropriately.
• Planning and Organising: Effectively plans and structures tasks and resources, monitors progress, and adapts plans to meet objectives. Identifies potential scheduling issues and manages priorities in a methodical way.
• Performance Management: Supports performance development through regular feedback, goal setting, and recognition. Observes and documents performance, contributing to formal reviews and improvement initiatives.
• Analytical Thinking: Uses structured tools and approaches to analyse problems, compare solutions, and identify key influencing factors. Applies logical reasoning to data to support sound decision‑making.

What You May Have:

• NEBOSH Qualified: Demonstrates a solid foundation in health and safety, with the ability to apply best practice across manufacturing environments.
• CMMS Expertise: Hands‑on experience in using and managing Computerised Maintenance Management Systems to support efficient maintenance planning and execution.
• Lean & Six Sigma Knowledge: Working understanding of continuous improvement methodologies, contributing to process optimisation and operational excellence.

Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.

What You Will Get:

One Company, Limitless Opportunities. Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off‑highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel‑electric locomotives. We do business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment. Careers at Caterpillar are limitless; we have opportunities in Engineering, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain and so much more. You can create the career you want. It’s your time and talent, make it count.

Our Sustainability Commitment:

Caterpillar has a long‑standing commitment to sustainability, one of our five Values in Action. It is part of who we are and what we do. We actively lead sustainable green initiatives to preserve the environment, help reduce poverty with the Caterpillar Foundation and stay involved in the communities we help build.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell
• 12% bonus
• Contributory pension scheme – Caterpillar will double the employee’s contribution up to 10%
• Private Medical (employee only)
• Contributory share scheme – Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee’s contribution
• Optional flexible benefits including access to private health and dental care plans, EV car lease etc.

Travel: Not required