Maintenence Manager in Heywood

As a Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing all maintenance activities across the site, ensuring the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of equipment, facilities, and engineering systems.

You'll lead a team of engineers and contractors, managing both planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance activities while driving a proactive maintenance culture focused on continuous improvement, compliance, and operational excellence.

Working closely with Operations and Site Leadership teams, you'll ensure engineering activities support business objectives and minimise downtime across the facility.

• What You'll Be Doing
• Leading, coaching, and developing the site maintenance team to deliver high levels of performance, engagement, and technical capability.
• Managing planned preventative maintenance programmes to maximise equipment reliability and reduce operational downtime.
• Ensuring the effective delivery of reactive maintenance activities and supporting root cause analysis of equipment failures.
• Managing maintenance budgets, engineering contractors, and supplier relationships.
• Overseeing the maintenance of conveyors, refrigeration systems, cranes, mobile racking, plant utilities, and other site infrastructure.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives to improve equipment performance, efficiency, and reliability.
• Ensuring full compliance with health and safety, food safety, environmental, and engineering standards.
• Leading engineering projects, including equipment installations, upgrades, and site improvement activities.
• Monitoring maintenance KPIs and producing reports to support operational and strategic decision‑making.
• Working collaboratively with Operations, Quality, and Site Leadership teams to support customer and business requirements.
• Ensuring maintenance records, permits, risk assessments, and engineering documentation are accurately maintained.
• You’ll spend some time working within our temperature‑controlled environment at approximately –18°C, but we’ll provide all the specialist PPE needed to keep you comfortable and safe.

There will also be occasions when you’ll be required to work at height or oversee work involving access equipment and specialist contractors.

Benefits

• The opportunity to earn an additional day of annual leave each year, up to the maximum of one extra week for length of service.
• Free onsite car park
• Social environment with a team who like to support each other to achieve goals, with recognition schemes and shared spaces to enjoy lunch and rest breaks together
• Support your emotional well‑being with access to a 24/7 employee assistance phone line offering confidential free counselling and advice
• Preferential rates for loans and savings offered through exclusive access to a credit union

Qualifications

• We're looking for an experienced engineering professional with strong leadership skills, a continuous improvement mindset, and a passion for building high‑performing maintenance teams.
• A recognised Electrical or Mechanical Engineering qualification (HNC, HND, Degree, NVQ Level 3, or equivalent).
• Previous experience managing maintenance operations within a warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, FMCG, food production, cold storage, or automated environment.
• Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of planned preventative maintenance (PPM) systems and asset management.
• Excellent fault‑finding, problem‑solving, and root‑cause analysis skills.
• Strong understanding of health and safety legislation and engineering compliance requirements.
• Experience managing contractors, suppliers, and engineering budgets.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A proactive and organised approach with the ability to prioritise workloads effectively.

Desirable (But Not Essential)

• Experience working within a temperature‑controlled or cold storage environment.
• Knowledge of refrigeration systems and industrial cooling equipment.
• Experience with automated material handling equipment, conveyors, cranes, and mobile racking systems.
• IOSH Managing Safely, NEBOSH, or equivalent health and safety qualification.
• Experience leading engineering improvement or capital project activities.
• Familiarity with CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management Systems).
• Continuous improvement experience using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.

Lineage is the global leader in temperature‑controlled logistics, with a clear mission: to transform the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world.

Through cutting‑edge technology, a vast logistics network, and a commitment to sustainability, we serve a broad customer base, from Fortune 500 corporations to local, family‑owned businesses.

We’re looking for a Maintenance Manager to lead and develop our engineering function at our Heywood facility, ensuring the reliability, safety and performance of critical site equipment and infrastructure.

At Lineage, we believe in empowering our people to make a difference.

You’ll have the opportunity to lead a skilled engineering team, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and play a key role in supporting the operational success of one of the world’s leading cold storage and logistics businesses.

Why Lineage?

We are a global company with more than 22,000 employees spanning 20 countries and more than 400 locations across North America, Europe, Asia‑Pacific, and South America.

At Lineage Logistics, we have a shared purpose; we are transforming the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world.

This means working at Lineage is not just a job – it’s an opportunity to innovate and put your mark on how food moves from the farm to dinner tables around the world.

As a member of our team, you will be a critical link in the food supply chain.

Our shared purpose drives everything we do in all parts of our organisation, from the warehouse floor to the office.

Our team members are passionate about the impact they make every single day.

As a Lineage team member, we aim to provide everything you and your family need to thrive.

That's why we offer competitive rates of pay, paid time off, skills training, and development opportunities to grow a long and fulfilling career with us.

This is enhanced by recognition schemes (so that your hard work won’t go unnoticed), plus the chance to make your salary go even further with our cycle‑to‑work scheme and preferential rates for loans and savings courtesy of a leading credit union.

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