Maintenance Manager MFD

A long-established Specialty chemicals producer with a Platinum Ecovadis rating based in the North East of England supplying over 400 customers via 2 manufacturing sites with its own R&D facilities.

Our 4 key businesses are:

• Personal Care
• Proprietary Reduced Environmental Impact products
• Solvent Recovery
• Custom Manufacturing to serve sectors including Cosmetics, Oil & Gas, Homecare, Animal Nutrition, Lubricants

We are a top tier COMAH site where Health & Safety is at the core of how we operate. We pride ourselves on an excellent health and safety record and work hard to ensure the safety of all. Our people are our biggest asset and we have long been a champion of the Better Health at Work programme having gained maintaining excellence rating for many years. This also extends to a strong ethos of support and opportunity for progression of our staff.

Position Context: To manage all maintenance activities across the Middlesbrough & Billingham sites and ensure that they are efficiently planned, scheduled and executed safely in line with agreed work plans, safety management systems and best working practices in accordance with Health & Safety regulations and Business Objectives. Work to continually optimise the performance of plant assets in partnership with the Reliability & Asset Integrity Strategy Manager and Operations and Engineering departments.

Main tasks:

• Lead and oversee investigations of incidents / near misses
• Ensure legislative compliance with LOLER, DSEAR & PUWER
• Attend regular EH&S meetings and technician toolbox talks and ensure progress is made on actions arising regarding maintenance
• Develop and implement site-wide maintenance programmes
• Manage the Maintenance supervision group
• Communicate and reinforce Company policies and strategy to maintenance and support personnel
• Ensure Maintenance store is established and controlled
• Establish and update a suite of Maintenance procedures
• Establish and manage the annual maintenance budget
• Develop compliance performance and spend KPI reports reviewing and acting on results
• Work with Purchasing to regularly review service providers for safety, value and quality
• Ensure appropriate maintenance records are kept up to date to facilitate data analysis for reliability improvements
• Manage annual service agreements resolving renewal issues and working with Purchasing to achieve best value
• Provide technical support as required to breakdowns / tasks
• Review and monitor compliance with safe work systems and maintenance procedures
• Provide project management support to the sites which includes working with the Reliability Manager to support key maintenance projects typically outside of the scope of day to day maintenance
• Work with the Projects & Engineering Manager to support the Projects team for some capital projects
• Liaise with HR department to establish appropriate training & development plans for Maintenance personnel

Required skills:

• Ability to demonstrate strong safety leadership
• Needs to be fully conversant with Health and Safety issues and Codes of practice relevant to the industry including COSHH and COMAH Regulations
• Experience on a Top Tier COMAH site preferred
• Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Instrumentation or Electrical)
• Relevant experience in a similar position
• Must be eligible to work in the UK
• Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
• Must have a complete understanding of strategic maintenance planning and turnaround activities

At Seqens Custom Specialties we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds including but not limited to; race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability and religion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and join us in fostering a culture of respect, openness and inclusion.

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