Area Engineering Maintenance Manager

You will work in collaboration with key stakeholders, managing 5 Technical Maintenance Mangers who are each responsible for 3/4 RM sites acting as a technical business partner. You will have direct control over a budget of £6 million and indirect control of sites budgets totally around £500 million.

A Key facet of this role is driving cultural change within the maintenance community, focusing on fostering an innovative climate amongst their teams, developing not only performance improvement of our assets but our people, ensuring people develop and grow within roles. The role is responsible in delivering compliance to Royal Mails legislative and regulatory requirements that affect the maintenance and use of the automation equipment and to drive key performance metrics to achieve the operational goals.

You will also:

• Create, own and drive strategic plans in the region to meet the maintenance strategy and standards which underpins business KPIs

• Develop influential and collaborative working relationship with senior operational teams and our unions, focused on driving sustained performance improvement

• Develop a culture of continuous improvement and innovation at all levels to drive the maintenance revolution, embed new ways of working and drive cost benefits within engineering and operation

• Own and manage non-staff budget and provide tactical support to the operational colleagues in managing the staff budget

• Drive asset reliability, quality & performance against strategic business and maintenance KPI’s to ensure minimal disruption and costs to the operation

• Lead diverse and geographically spread team to foster a climate of innovation, building on team capabilities to enhance business performance

• Lead a team of Plant Maintenance managers to deliver performance improvement of our assets, owning people development plan across the region driving learning culture

• Work collaboratively with the engineering strands to effectively integrate new automation across the plants in line with the early equipment management principles

You will be responsible for the Line management for 4 Technical Maintenance Managers and matrix management of 220+ Maintenance Technicians and circa 30 apprentices so experience of managing dispersed technical teams in a highly automated environment is essential for the role.

You also:

• Have exception change management skills, able to create an environment striving for innovation and creativity, establishing the value of ideas and change initiatives that will drive continuous improvement across RM

• Can engage at all levels using personal presence and "storytelling" to articulate and translate vision into maintenance strategies, demonstrating clarity in thinking and using inspirational communication experience

• Are able to create a climate of succession, with demonstrable experience in building capable teams and succession plans to create a pipeline of talent that supports the overall strategic future focus

• Have expert knowledge of automated processes and asset lifecycle maintenance management standards

• Have expert knowledge of cost versus risk and change management theories to develop and deliver strategic change and business performance

Desirable qualifications (not essential)

• A qualification in an Engineering, Technical or Scientific Discipline (Level 4/5, HNC/HND or above) or alternative professionally recognised achievement

• Qualified machinery directive compliance assessor (PUWER)

• Qualified in Health & Safety Management (IOSH)

Extra Benefits

• RMG Share Schemes – partnership and matching share offer

• Family friendly support – enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave

• Discounts and offers – there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.

• Supportive and generous company sick pay

• Your Wellbeing – you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.

*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be an initial Teams call with the Hiring Manager follwed by a face to face interview (at either Midlands Super Hub or Leeds Mail Centre) consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

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We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

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