Maintenance Manager

Do you want to use your skills and knowledge within a company that evolves around the circular economy? Our client is a strong team with a powerful ethos. People join them because they want to make a difference. You'll quickly discover their values are part of their DNA and run through all they do.

Our client is made up of people from all walks of life - it's what makes the team so fantastic. They are committed to hiring great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. If you share their values and our purpose, continue reading to find out more about the Maintenance Manager position at the facility in Barking.

You will lead the preventive and reactive maintenance functions, holding the maintenance operating budget and the capital & lifecycle budget to drive financial savings through efficiency initiatives. In this role you will lead a team of maintenance engineers and back-office support instilling a culture of best practice in the examination of and fault finding on the equipment and servicing activities on all site equipment ensuring health & safety and environmental compliance at all times and maximising plant availability.

We are all innovative here, constantly creating new and better ways of utilising waste, so it is a CI mentality within the role is important to us. You will ensure productivity and availability exceeds minimum defined standards, by driving best practice and continuous improvement in cost control and processing operations. Data drives ways of working. You will develop and implement robust data management systems to support reliable decision making in relation to spend and maintenance schedules. KPI's and SLA's all assist us to ensure high operational availability and an efficient breakdown repair service for our plants.

Your key responsibilities

• Manage the programme of planned preventative maintenance and inspection to minimise downtime, provide Root Cause Analysis of recurrent or significant faults and develop engineered solutions to these issues.

• Keep abreast of changes to health & safety and environmental legislation and Company policies to ensure defined standards and best practice are implemented and ensure all technicians are aware of any changes that may affect them.

• Identify under-performing assets for evaluation, identify potential business improvement projects and assist in the preparation of business case papers.

• Identify relevant skills and training requirements for staff, prepare local operating procedures as part of staff training and development.

• Report all safety or environmental issues to Management, and where appropriate, to internal support services staff. Prepare corrective action plans if required, complete identified actions.

• Manage and develop the maintenance team with a view to future progression inside the company.

• Support a mobile maintenance engineer who provide a service to our satellite sites.

Check out what we believe will help you be successful in this role.

• Degree/NVQ3 in an Engineering discipline

• Experience in the development and use of detailed maintenance KPIs, both at a site and regional level that incorporate spend, performance & health and safety

• Proven track record in the implementation of robust PPM & TPM maintenance systems

• Experience in the development of a maintenance strategy across multiple sites, incorporating, stores and stock management, equipment safety, servicing breakdown and lifecycle replacement

• Previous experience of managing multi-million-pound budgets within a manufacturing/production environment

What do we offer you?

• A competitive salary

• Enhanced employer contribution pension plan

• 33 days' annual leave entitlement including statutory holidays

• Access to our Sharesave scheme - Your chance to own shares in the business you work so hard for

• Numerous opportunities for career development, we have a history of promoting from within

• Access to wellbeing and reward platform from Day 1

• Varying job in an international, dynamic organisation in which you can continue to develop yourself and with freedom for own input that is taken into account.