Maintenance Manager TLNT1_NI

SDC Trailers is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance. The Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance and asset reliability activities across the trailer manufacturing facility. The role ensures the safe, efficient, and cost-effective operation of production equipment, facilities, and infrastructure while driving continuous improvement, minimising downtime, and supporting the achievement of operational and business objectives.

The Maintenance Manager will lead a skilled maintenance team, develop long-term asset strategies, and work collaboratively with production and engineering teams to deliver world-class manufacturing performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching, and developing the maintenance team, promoting a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• Planning, prioritising, and coordinating preventative, predictive, and reactive maintenance activities to maximise equipment availability and minimise production disruption.
• Developing and implementing the site maintenance strategy, annual maintenance plans, and asset management programmes.
• Improving equipment reliability and plant performance by reducing downtime, improving asset utilisation, and addressing recurring equipment failures through root cause analysis.
• Managing maintenance budgets, capital expenditure projects, spare parts inventory, contractors, and shutdown activities.
• Monitoring and reporting on maintenance KPIs including downtime, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance compliance, and OEE.
• Supporting Lean, 5S, TPM, reliability-centred maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Identifying opportunities for equipment upgrades, automation, energy efficiency improvements, and process optimisation.
• Ensuring key manufacturing assets are maintained to a high standard, including welding equipment, fabrication machinery, CNC equipment, paint plant systems, material handling equipment, compressed air systems, and site infrastructure.

Facilities Management Responsibilities

• Overseeing maintenance, repair, and improvement of all site facilities, buildings, utilities, and infrastructure.
• Developing planned preventative maintenance programmes for building services, utilities, and facility assets.
• Managing site utilities including electrical distribution, compressed air, gas, water, drainage, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.
• Ensuring the ongoing maintenance of factory buildings, offices, welfare facilities, yards, roads, fencing, roofing, and site security systems.
• Leading facility improvement projects including refurbishments, layout changes, infrastructure upgrades, and energy reduction initiatives.
• Managing external service providers including cleaning, security, waste management, grounds maintenance, and specialist engineering contractors.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory inspections, certifications, fire safety systems, emergency lighting, alarm systems, sprinkler systems, and building infrastructure requirements.
• Supporting business continuity by ensuring critical facility systems and contingency plans are in place.
• Maintaining accurate records of maintenance activity, inspections, statutory compliance, and contractor performance.