Shift Maintenance engineer in Winsford

This position is responsible for providing technical direction, administrative support, and support to the maintenance department. It also assists in plant cost savings initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the activities of the maintenance and engineering teams to ensure process safety, safety, environmental, reliability, and cost goals of the refinery are achieved.
• Assure all work is performed safely and in compliance with environmental regulations.
• Develop training plans and evaluate performance to aid operator training and coaching to develop operator skills on all lines.
• Drive continuous improvement using metrics and benchmarking to validate performance and by understanding root causes of failures.
• Develop and implement corrective action initiatives and programs to improve maintenance, control process, and engineering performance as required.
• Responsible for managing preventive and predictive maintenance initiatives and programs.
• Oversee contractor activities and performance as utilized to supplement Maintenance Department.
• Develop and manage the maintenance and engineering capital project budgets and support other departments with developing spending plans.
• Oversee and manage expenditures and continuously track, manage, and adjust spending to ensure performance to budget plans.
• Oversee outage planning and execution through active participation in scope development, providing justification for work items, and providing support during commissioning of equipment, shutdown/startup and outage timeframe.
• Ensure all Corporate & HR personnel policies and practices are understood and enforced.
• Establish a working relationship with other staff and departmental managers to be sure activities across the Maintenance team support their needs as customers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Performance Indicators

Safety & Compliance

• Number of safety incidents / near misses involving engineering work.
• Percentage of planned work executed with risk assessments / permits in place.

Maintenance & Reliability

• Planned vs. unplanned maintenance.
• Downtime % vs targets.
• OEE metrics to budgeted targets.

Project & Work Execution

• Planned vs. actual project completion.
• Budget adherence (CAPEX and OPEX projects within cost).
• Engineering change implementation time (from request to completion).
• Average response time to breakdown requests.
• % of downtime attributed to engineering delays.

Cost & Resource Management

• Spare parts stock-out incidents.
• % of budget spent on reactive vs preventive work.
• Energy/utilities consumption linked to equipment inefficiency.
• Number of improvement initiatives implemented (Kaizen, Lean, 5S, AM/PM).
• % of engineering solutions standardized or digitalized (e.g., predictive maintenance, CMMS usage).

Skills & Qualifications

• 5 years maintenance experience preferred including:
• Computer Maintenance Management Systems (preferably SAP).
• Planning and Scheduling.
• Preventative/Predictive/Precision Maintenance.
• Reliability Engineering.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, Outlook, and internet research skills.
• PLC/Controls Programming preferred.
• Project Management.
• Leader with exceptional communication skills, good organization, and the ability to communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Previous environmental experience is a plus.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Industry

Packaging and Containers Manufacturing and Manufacturing

Location

Winsford, England, United Kingdom