This is a newly created and influential position, reporting into Senior Management and taking responsibility for the effective planning, coordination, compliance and financial control of maintenance activity across the site.
This is not an administrative maintenance role. We are looking for someone with a strong maintenance or engineering background who understands the practical and technical considerations involved in maintaining complex plant and equipment. You will bring structure, accountability and good engineering practice to the maintenance function, ensuring work is effectively planned, appropriately resourced, compliant and driven through to completion.
The Role
You will take ownership of daily, weekly and longer-term maintenance planning, coordinating preventative, corrective and reactive maintenance while balancing plant priorities, asset criticality, labour, materials, contractors, downtime and operational requirements.
A key element of the position will be developing the site's maintenance planning processes. The business is currently evolving its hybrid maintenance system, providing the successful individual with the opportunity to establish more robust processes for capturing, prioritising, scheduling, tracking and closing maintenance activities, while supporting future progression towards a more structured CMMS environment.
Alongside maintenance planning, you will have responsibility for key commercial and compliance aspects of the maintenance department. This will include maintaining visibility of maintenance expenditure and budgets, coordinating contractors and specialist service providers, managing critical spares requirements and ensuring statutory inspections and maintenance obligations are effectively planned and recorded.
Working closely with Engineering, Operations and Senior Management, you will monitor maintenance performance, planned versus completed work, downtime and recurring reliability issues. You will use this information to improve asset reliability, maintenance efficiency and overall plant performance, supporting root cause analysis and wider continuous improvement activity where required.
About You
This position would particularly suit someone who has developed their career within engineering or maintenance and is looking to use that technical knowledge in a broader maintenance coordination and management-focused position.
We are looking for:
* A strong engineering or maintenance background gained within manufacturing, processing, heavy industry or a similarly operational environment.
* Experience of maintenance planning, PPM and corrective/reactive maintenance, with a sound understanding of plant reliability and maintenance priorities.
* Experience coordinating engineers, contractors, resources and maintenance activities, ideally with exposure to CMMS or maintenance planning systems.
* A good understanding of maintenance compliance, health & safety, statutory requirements, budgets, cost control and critical spares.
You will be confident operating with a high degree of autonomy and capable of making informed decisions when priorities change. Strong organisation and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to work effectively with engineers and operational teams while providing Senior Management with clear visibility of maintenance performance, compliance, expenditure and outstanding priorities.
The Opportunity
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced maintenance or engineering professional who wants to have a genuine influence on how a maintenance department operates.
Rather than simply inheriting an established system, you will have the opportunity to shape and develop the maintenance planning function, strengthening controls around planning, compliance, expenditure and performance while helping create a robust maintenance framework that supports safe, reliable and efficient plant operation.
Apply today for further information or a confidential discussion about the opportunity
Salary description
£44000.00 - £46360.00 per year