Dr. Oetker
Head of Maintenance (Fixed Term)
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Factory Management | Leyland | Full Time | Temporary
Since our beginnings at Dr. Oetker, we have been breaking new ground. With pizza, cake, and desserts, as well as digital platforms and services – quality and an innovative spirit set us apart.
What awaits you? It's up to you! At Dr. Oetker, you can actively shape the future – both yours and ours. We want to be part of something bigger. Don't you?
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Great news! We have a fantastic opportunity for a Head of Maintenance to join our Maintenance Team. This is a 2 year fixed term contract.
This isn’t a standard Head of Maintenance role. This is a high-impact transformation opportunity to take an already strong operation at our Leyland site and turn it into a best-in-class, future-ready maintenance function.
You’ll join the business as a key member of the Site Leadership Team, shaping strategy, driving cultural change, and building the capability needed to deliver sustainable, world-class performance.
If you’re motivated by building a sustainable culture of high-performing teams and delivering real change at scale, this is your opportunity.
Your Responsibilities
Shape Culture & Capability
- Create a high-performance, accountable and engaged engineering culture
- Develop leaders who can sustain and build on the transformation
- Build a strong succession pipeline and long-term capability across the team
Transform Performance
- Lead the shift to a fully proactive, reliability-led maintenance model
- Deliver step-change improvements in OEE, uptime, and asset performance
- Set and embed standards that define “what great looks like”
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Drive Strategic Change
- Translate business strategy into a clear, compelling maintenance vision
- Lead large-scale change programmes across systems, processes and behaviours
- Build a function that is fit for the future—digitally enabled, data-led and continuously improving
Own Performance & Investment
- Lead the maintenance budget with a sharp focus on value and efficiency
- Reduce reactive spend and improve cost per unit
- Identify and deliver targeted investment to unlock performance
Lead Through Collaboration
- Partner across Production, Quality, HSE and Supply Chain to deliver site objectives
- Influence at senior level to drive alignment and pace
- Champion a culture of ownership, accountability and teamwork
What You Bring
- A proven leader with a strong track record of delivering cultural and capability transformation in a manufacturing environment
- Experience leading strategic change programmes, not just maintaining performance
- Deep understanding of reliability, asset care, and operational excellence
- A people-first leader who can engage, challenge and inspire teams
- Strong commercial mindset with experience owning budgets and driving cost improvement
- The presence and credibility to operate at senior leadership level
What We Offer
The Head of Maintenance role offers a competitive salary alongside many other benefits including;
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- 33 days annual leave (inc bank holidays) which increases with service
- Free Life Assurance at 4 times basic annual salary
- Enhanced Company Sick Pay
- Salary sacrifice Pension scheme (3% employee contribution, 6% employer contribution)
- Private medical insurance (BUPA)
- Health care Cash Plan Scheme (BUPA)
- Annual healthy heart MOT’s
- Enhanced Family Friendly Leave
- Employee loyalty scheme recognising length of service milestones at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15 20 years and beyond!
- Free pizzas
- Subsidised on site restaurant with hot and cold meals, a salad/deli bar and snack machines
- Free tea, coffee and fresh fruit.
- Free on-site parking
- Free Wi-Fi on site
- Employee Referral Scheme £350 – once you know how great it is to work here, you’ll want to bring your friends and family!
- Regular Employee Forums ensuring all employees have a voice
- Incentivised employee suggestion scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free eye test vouchers
We look forward to your online application. Just click the "Apply now" button, and you're good to go. Still have questions? Then please feel free to reach out to us directly.
Dr. Oetker is an equal opportunities employer. We continuously work to shape and live in a corporate culture where everyone feels welcome. At Dr. Oetker, your personality and qualifications are what count. Not gender, nationality, ethnic or social background, religion, disability, age or sexual orientation, and identity.
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