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Futures are working with a well-known and long-established manufacturing organisation to recruit an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead engineering operations. This is a hands-on leadership role, ideal for a Maintenance Manager or Senior Engineer ready to take ownership of a small but skilled engineering team while driving improvements across an ageing manufacturing facility.
As Maintenance Manager, you will be the technical authority on site — the go-to person for all mechanical and electrical matters. You will manage a small team of engineers, balancing hands-on fault finding with strategic and people leadership responsibilities.
The site currently operates in a largely reactive maintenance environment, with older machinery and no formal PPM structure in place. A key part of the role will be introducing new maintenance strategies, improving reliability, and gradually moving the operation towards a more planned and proactive approach.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of multi-skilled engineers
- Act as the technical escalation point for complex mechanical and electrical issues
- Maintain and repair mechanical and hydraulic presses and other legacy manufacturing equipment
- Balance hands-on maintenance work with planning, scheduling, and team management
- Introduce and implement PPM strategies and improve maintenance processes
- Work closely with production to minimise downtime and improve asset reliability
- Use the site’s ERP system for maintenance logging, planning, and reporting
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and maintenance
The ideal candidate:
- Proven experience in a Maintenance Manager / Engineering Manager role within manufacturing
- Strong mechanical and electrical background
- Hands-on experience working with mechanical and hydraulic presses
- Comfortable working in environments with older machinery and reactive maintenance
- Confident people manager with experience leading engineering teams
- Computer literate, with experience using ERP or CMMS systems
- Exposure to Continuous Improvement (CI) methodologies would be advantageous
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