Maintenance Delivery Leader
Application Deadline: 9 October 2026
Department: Engineering & Maintenance
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Wyke
Reporting To: Manufacturing Manager
Description
Our Business
px PEOPLE, their commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork, are the reason for px Group’s continuing growth and success story. We aim to be the elite provider of operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions in high hazard, highly regulated industries nationally and as we grow, across Europe and globally. For more information visit www.pxlimited.com
Located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the Wyke Agrichemicals Manufacturing Plant is operated by px Group in partnership with Nufarm. The site is one of the UK's leading crop protection manufacturing facilities, manufacturing crop protection products for Nufarm that support farmers and growers around the world.
Wyke is a Top Tier COMAH site, operating a complex chemical manufacturing environment where safety, reliability and operational excellence are fundamental to everything we do. With a skilled workforce across manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, supply chain and support functions, the site offers the opportunity to work alongside experienced professionals in a highly technical environment
The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a Maintenance Leader
As a Maintenance Leader for px Group, Wyke, you will lead the Maintenance Department and be accountable for the delivery of safe, quality assured, timely and cost-effective maintenance and shutdowns (turnarounds) service by employees and contractors to meet the needs of Manufacturing and other site asset owners
You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.
Key Responsibilities
- People Leader of the Maintenance Delivery Team and accountable for their health, safety and performance.
- Translates and communicates the business strategy and objectives to the maintenance personnel.
- Provides leadership, coaching and expectations for the personnel, participating in the plant goal setting processes.
- Challenges teams and individuals to set, monitor and achieve goals aligned to the business and site strategies and goals.
- Accountable for providing a safe, quality assured, competitive, and responsive maintenance service to the site.
- Safely and efficiently execute preventive/predictive and reactive maintenance, implementing best practices in maintenance delivery, employee & contractor management and work patterns to maximise plant uptime at minimum cost.
- Accountable for contractor management (long-term, service and specialist) – safety, quality and cost performance.
- Jointly accountable with Procurement for the selection and verification of contractors and the contractor strategy.
- Accountable for the continuous improvement of the maintenance work process (Work orders, planning, scheduling, execution and documenting) and the upkeep of the CMMS.
- Accountable for safe delivery of plant shutdowns. Accountable for agreed maintenance delivery budget, highlighting and managing any overspend on forecast.
- Working with manufacturing and engineering leaders to highlight and implement cost saving and efficiency.
- Develop and implement maintenance and organisational strategy in conjunction with Manufacturing Manager.
Minimum Requirements
- Experience in Engineering, Maintenance and People management
- Experience in setting and delivering engineering KPI’s
- Relevant Senior Engineering qualifications (E, C&I , Mechanical, Chemical, etc)
Desirable
- Relevant Engineering Degree.
- Relevant Safety Qualifications (IOSH, NEBOSH etc)
What you will receive from us
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- A boosted pension scheme – we’ll match 1.25% to every 1% you pay (up to 8%)
- Simply Health Cash Plan
- Staff Meals
- Onsite parking
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.
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