Maintenance Manager

You lead and support your maintenance team by coordinating daily tasks, managing absences, organising overtime and ensuring safe systems of work at all times. Your responsibilities include developing, documenting and maintaining planned maintenance schedules (PPM/TPM) to ensure plant reliability and OEM service compliance. You act as the primary contact for internal and external audits, ensuring corrective actions are completed and conducting your own periodic departmental audits. You evaluate maintenance KPIs to monitor performance and prioritise actions that strengthen overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) across the site. You lead structured root cause analysis on major breakdowns and recurring malfunctions, implementing sustainable technical and organisational improvements. You manage all contractors on site by reviewing RAMS, issuing permits, organising visits and conducting regular worksite checks to ensure safe, compliant operations.

You hold a HNC or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline and bring practical experience within a maintenance or engineering environment (desirable). You have a proven track record in fast paced production operations and understand what is required to maintain reliable, complex equipment under time critical conditions. You are familiar with automated environments; knowledge of PLCs, robotics and CMMS reporting systems is advantageous and supports you in strengthening plant performance. Experience in preventative maintenance approaches and exposure to TPM/PPM methodologies help you contribute quickly within our structured maintenance environment. You work proactively, bring a positive “can do” mindset, show flexibility when priorities shift and demonstrate a strong willingness to develop yourself and your team. You communicate clearly across departments, engage confidently with auditors and contractors, and foster strong partnerships with production, safety and engineering teams.

We offer our employees an attractive remuneration package, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and bonus opportunities. We offer a generous pension scheme which enables our employees to have greater financial security when they do retire. We are in the 7% of UK businesses that have received the gold award from Investors in People (IiP). The safety of our employees is paramount and Vaillant Industrial are proud to have received the ROSPA Gold medal award for the 10th consecutive year and the resultant Presidents Award. We pride ourselves on our Family Friendly Policies, designed to support our employees during important life events. Our onsite Bistro and Coffee Bar are great places to enjoy social time with colleagues. They provide comfortable seating, healthy subsidised meal options and refreshments during the day.

We take care of a better climate. In every home and our environment. As a successful family business, we have been living up to this claim for over 150 years. We are one of the world's leading providers of heat pumps, digital services and efficient gas heating appliances and offer energy-saving solutions. You will find sustainability everywhere at the Vaillant Group. In the office, at the production sites and on the road. Around 16,000 employees from over 70 countries are committed to this every day. As an international team, we take responsibility - for our future and that of our planet. We promote your personal development so that you can act with passion and together we can ensure a better climate. Become part of the Vaillant Group and help us shape the future of heating! We promote equity and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. We value the uniqueness of each individual and encourage all people to apply.