MAINTENANCE MANAGER

"Excellent role focused on improving Reliability, PPM & OEE at a flagship manufacturing site. Succession path to Plant Manager."

cGBPVery Competitive + Bonus & Excellent Blue-Chip Benefits

Cheshire/Derbyshire Borders

Commutable from: Derbyshire, Cheshire, Manchester, Staffordshire, Macclesfield, Chapel en le Frith, Leek, Stoke on Trent, Stockport, Buxton, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Matlock, Burton on Trent, Ashbourne, Belper, Rotherham, Dronfield, Worksop.

Our client, part of a global multinational, is a market leader and operates a number of production plants in the UK.

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Maintenance Manager will lead a maintenance and engineering team including specialist electrical and mechanical leaders who in turn manage electricians, mechanical fitters, process control and technicians, The focus will be to strategically and operationally improve reliability, PPM and OEE by ensuring that plant equipment and maintenance systems are maintained, developed, and improved within a lean manufacturing and Continuous Improvement environment and culture. Career prospects are excellent as this role is on the succession plan to the Plant Manager role.

As Maintenance Manager, the focus is safety first and zero harm and you will champion and proactively promote this safe working ethos amongst your team and contractors. You will lead the daily management of a production critical engineering and maintenance department on a processing/manufacturing site which operates on a 24/7 basis.Therefore, our client is seeking an Engineering professional (electrical and/or mechanical) with a recent track record of engineering and maintenance team senior leadership gained within a "best in class", quality focused, manufacturing operation. You must demonstrate the potential and ambition to become Plant Manager in the next 2-3 years.As a member of the senior leadership team, the Maintenance Manager will inspire, motivate, and develop a proactive and highly competent maintenance and engineering team. You will work closely with the Production Manager, Plant Manager, and cross functional colleagues in improving all maintenance and engineering operations process control, mechanical, and electrical across inspection, planning, scheduling, execution, and improvement phases. The focus will be on delivering a culture of continuous improvement and proactive maintenance not only in maintenance and engineering operations but also safety and health, environmental compliance, and plant reliability, establishing strong relationships both internally with central Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence and externally with OEMS and contractors.

The Role Develop a high-performing engineering and maintenance team with a culture of delivery and continuous improvement through effective leadership and management to deliver operational excellence. Ensure compliance with all relevant statutory legislation and the internal company Safety, Health, and Environmental Standards. Drive improvements in plant availability and performance, including costs, through the implementation of company engineering maintenance best practices across the whole site. Own, develop and evolve the engineering maintenance strategy, implementing a common maintenance platform. To monitor and ensure implementation and delivery of engineering maintenance procedures, initiatives, and controls across all areas of responsibility. Liaise between functions to ensure teamwork, consistency, coordination, and best practice to eliminate losses from poor practices or communication and to expedite learning. As part of the senior site team, develop annual maintenance budgets, highlighting operational constraints and the value adding performance that Engineering can make. Ensure the application of defect elimination/Pareto/root cause failure analysis to all losses and be responsible for the recommendation/implementation of solutions. Management of the established site maintenance, planning, and cost reporting systems to maximise their potential to the organisation. Keep abreast of and apply where appropriate new condition monitoring technologies, maintenance improvement 'tools' and processes. Support the development of engineering staff by defining, and where necessary, providing training in activities that support maintenance improvement and coaching. Define and implement KPI's to monitor the performance of all maintenance employees and contractors. Apply and communicate the national engineering and maintenance improvement strategy for the site including proactively supporting cross functionally to ensure maintenance practices are adopted and implemented.

The Ideal Candidate: Graduate calibre qualifications in engineering with a good understanding of electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering. Qualifications in 18th edition or similar, IOSH, NEBOSH would be highly advantageous. Your engineering & maintenance team management experience will be from a very high safety culture, FMCG or industrial manufacturing/production processing sector. This could be from a heavy processing industry such as cement, lime, steel, glass, sand or similar. Solid track record and achievement in improving reliability, PPM and OEE in a large manufacturing/processing site. Experience using lean and continuous improvement techniques will be critical to success. Change and project management experience will therefore be highly advantageous. You will have experience of preparing and managing engineering budgets. An appreciation of a wide variety of engineering disciplines i.e., electrical, mechanical, chemical, process control and optimisation will be critical to success and credibility in this role. Excellent project management skills are essential as you will play a key site lead role, as part of the national engineering and manufacturing excellence team, on capital expenditure projects. A high level of IT literacy is essential i.e., Microsoft and maintenance management and process control systems. You will have a demonstrable track record of maintenance team leadership, motivation and development, working closely with HR to produce competency matrices, training plans, talent identification, coaching and mentoring.