Elevation Recruitment Group
Engineering Manager
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Engineering and Maintenance Manager Leeds
Elevation Recruitment Group are excited to be exclusively partnered with a well-established manufacturing business in Leeds, who are looking to appoint an Engineering and Maintenance Manager to take ownership of the engineering department and lead a team of 2.
This is a hands-on leadership role reporting into senior site leadership, with responsibility for planned maintenance, compliance, projects, and capital investment across the site. It sits right at the centre of how the operation runs day to day, not just keeping the plant going but setting the standard for how engineering is delivered.
The business is looking for someone electrical biased who can back up technical credibility with genuine people leadership. You will get real autonomy to shape how the department operates, backed by a business willing to invest in its engineering function.
Working Hours: Days based, Monday to Friday
Salary: Up to £52,000
Duties of the Engineering and Maintenance Manager
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- Leading and managing the engineering department, with direct responsibility for a team of 2
- Delivering the planned preventative maintenance (PPM) programme across the site
- Ensuring compliance with health, safety, and statutory regulations within engineering
- Ensuring compliance with all statutory testing for onsite plant and machinery, from LOLER to LEV
- Managing day-to-day maintenance activity across the site
- Leading engineering and improvement projects from scoping through to completion
- Owning the engineering budget, including cost control and reporting
- Managing Capex proposals and capital investment projects
- Sourcing and managing contractors, ensuring safe and timely delivery of work
- Overseeing site services and facilities, including utilities and site infrastructure
Requirements of the Engineering and Maintenance Manager
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Maintenance Manager, or similar within a manufacturing environment
- Electrical biased background, ideally supported by a recognised engineering qualification
- Experience managing and developing a team
- Strong working knowledge of PPM systems and maintenance planning
- Solid understanding of compliance and health and safety within an engineering environment
- Experience managing budgets, Capex proposals, and engineering projects
- Confident managing contractors and third-party suppliers
- Strong communicator, comfortable working across production, operations, and senior leadership
- Heavy manufacturing background desirable
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This role is commutable from: Wakefield, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Pontefract, Castleford, Harrogate, Dewsbury
Suited candidates previously hold roles such as: Maintenance Manager, Engineering Manager, Facilities Manager, Maintenance Team Leader, Engineering Team Leader, Multi Skilled Maintenance Supervisor, Plant Engineer, Site Engineer, Production Engineering Manager
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