Vibrant Foods is one of Europe's largest South Asian food groups, bringing together a portfolio of well-established heritage brands, including East End, TRS, Fudco, Cofresh, and Everest. Headquartered in Watford, with three manufacturing facilities across the Midlands, the company is dedicated to creating authentic, flavour-led food experiences that celebrate South Asian heritage while meeting the growing demand for plant-based and vegetarian products.
The business combines a rich cultural legacy with a modern, growth-focused approach, supplying both retail and foodservice markets across the UK and internationally. Its purpose is to create adventures in flavour that bring people together by connecting consumers with foods rooted in taste, heritage, and culture.
At the heart of Vibrant Foods is a people-focused culture underpinned by five core values: Swift, Passionate, Inclusive, Collaborative, and Empowered. Employees are encouraged to share ideas, work collaboratively to solve challenges, and take ownership of their work. This creates an agile, supportive environment where innovation, continuous improvement, and personal development are actively encouraged.
Job title - Maintenance Manager
Location - Birmingham, UK
Working Pattern - Monday to Friday, Site-based; flexibility required
Reporting to - Head of Engineering
Role Purpose
To lead the site maintenance team, ensuring equipment, utilities and facilities operate safely and reliably. The role combines planned maintenance, responsive support and continuous improvement to maximise uptime, reduce breakdowns and protect product quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and organise the maintenance team, setting priorities, allocating resources and building capability.
- Ensure maintenance complies with safety, environmental, food-safety, GMP and engineering requirements.
- Promote safety through risk assessment, audits, safe systems of work and timely corrective action.
- Develop preventive and predictive maintenance that improves asset life, reliability and availability.
- Analyse breakdowns and equipment performance, leading root-cause and continuous-improvement activity.
- Coordinate planned and reactive work with Production and Technical teams, communicating equipment status.
- Control the maintenance budget, contractors, suppliers and critical spares without compromising standards.
- Maintain audit-ready CMMS records, work orders, inspections, permits and equipment histories.
- Report safety, reliability, downtime, completion and cost measures, owning audit actions and escalated risks.
Person Specification
- Level 3 or equivalent qualification in engineering discipline
- Experience in senior engineering or management capacity within food manufacturing environment.
- Strong leadership, team-development, resource-planning and performance-management capability.
- Experience in preventive maintenance, reliability, breakdown reduction and root-cause analysis.
- Knowledge of safety, environmental, statutory inspection and engineering compliance requirements.
- Experience working to GMP, hygiene and quality standards with audit-ready records.
- Commercial capability in budgets, contractors, procurement and spares, with CMMS proficiency.
- Relevant maintenance and safety-management certifications.
- Experience in utilities, energy efficiency, projects, condition monitoring or predictive maintenance.
Benefits Full of Flavour
At Vibrant Foods, we believe great benefits are an essential ingredient in a rewarding career. Here’s a taste of what you can enjoy:
- 33 days’ annual leave - Plenty of time to relax, recharge and enjoy life outside work.
- Pension contributions matched up to 5% - Contribute 5% and we’ll match it—giving you a total pension contribution of 10%.
- Private healthcare eligibility - Access additional support to help you look after your health and wellbeing.
- Volunteering days - Take time away from your usual role to support the causes and communities that matter to you.
- Free on-site parking - Making your daily journey a little easier.
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Maintenance Manager in Birmingham employer: Vibrant Foods
Vibrant Foods is an exceptional employer that fosters a vibrant and inclusive work culture, where employees are empowered to share ideas and collaborate on innovative projects. Located in Birmingham, the company offers generous benefits such as 33 days of annual leave, matched pension contributions, and private healthcare eligibility, ensuring a rewarding work-life balance. With a strong focus on personal development and a commitment to celebrating South Asian heritage, Vibrant Foods provides meaningful opportunities for growth and engagement within a supportive environment.
