Engineering Maintenance Manager in Ellesmere Port

This role is responsible for leading, guiding and motivating the Maintenance team to ensure the plant is available to produce our fantastic products on time whilst meeting all quality and safety requirements. Reporting into the Factory Engineering Manager, this role will manage and support the activities of the maintenance team to meet both Production and Engineering demands and ensure that priority work is completed promptly whilst conforming to all Health and Safety requirements and current legislation.

You will take responsibility in developing a culture of pro-activity where people take pride and responsibility in what they do. The main focus of the role will be:

• Ensure the alignment of the maintenance resources with Factory strategy
• Ensuring that Planned Maintenance activities are carried out in accordance with the scheduled maintenance plan.
• Overseeing the day-to-day leadership of a team of around 14 engineers
• Creating a structured environment for Maintenance activities where expectations of behaviour and performance are clearly defined and regularly reviewed.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting of a defined budget for annual maintenance
• Support the implementation of Asset Maintenance and TPM-PM to deliver Asset Intensity and maximise performance in all areas, including health and safety, quality, wastage and efficiency via measurement and analysis.
• Analysing data/reviewing breakdowns that occur on the plant and implementing proactive actions/strategies to ensure they do not reoccur.
• Promoting a safety conscious working environment where all engineering employees adopt Safe ways of Working and hygienic engineering practices.
• Proactively carrying out Opportunity Maintenance on equipment that is not running.

We are looking for a leader that has a pro-active approach to continuous improvement and the ability to coach and develop the team around them. Experience in a people management role within a food manufacturing industry/engineering environment is required, along with experience working in a unionised environment. Ideally, candidates should have a Degree / Diploma/ HNC in an Engineering discipline (Mechanical, E&A, Process, Industrial Engineering or similar) and a proven ability to achieve targets, drive improvements and manage budgets. Candidates should also be able to demonstrate understanding of factory operations: TPM/ Lean, health & safety, employment, quality and hygiene legislation.

This role operates in a food manufacturing environment with regular time on the factory floor and exposure to noise, dust (grain), moving machinery, temperature variation, and manual handling activities. Flexibility is required to support shift teams, critical incidents, shutdowns, trials, and business needs.