Engineering, Maintenance and Site Services Manager in Chippenham

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life. You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

We are currently looking for an Engineering, Maintenance & Site Services Manager to join us at Chippenham. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety policies, procedures, and legislation and ensure that all work is undertaken to the highest Health & Safety standard.
• Implement and maintain an asset management program to cover all manufacturing equipment and services.
• Control engineering and toolroom spending and ensure adherence to budgets.
• Engineering stores and workshop management including stock control, purchasing, spares availability and housekeeping.
• Manage and control contracts in line with procedures from specification writing to installation.
• Management and control of contractors on site to ensure compliance with company safety and environmental policies.
• Assess downtime trends to identify areas of weakness and in conjunction with production function develop plans to reduce breakdowns and improve equipment reliability.
• Strengthen overall leadership and capabilities for the engineering function.
• Build and sustain a high-performance engineering and site services team and ensure strong alignment and coordination with Production function and other functional groups.
• ‘Champion’ the application of maintenance ‘excellence’ methodology.
• Develop and maintain a maintenance KPI dashboard in engineering and toolroom.
• Managing compliance to requirements of ISO14001.
• Develop and manage the AGILITY CMMS system.

The profile

• Minimum of 5 years experience of managing engineering activity.
• Experience of managing teams > 15 people.
• Proven capability of setting and managing budgets more than £1m/year.
• Excellent time management skills with the added need for flexibility as and when required.
• Display effective organisational skills.
• Ability to communicate and influence personnel at all levels of the organisation.
• Computer literacy to a high level.
• NEBOSH General Certificate.
• Recognised management qualification e.g. NVQ, ILM, CMI.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day.

Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.