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Maintenance Manager
Location: Birmingham
Industry: Power Generation
Employment Type: Permanent
Hours: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week
An established power generation business is looking to appoint an experienced Maintenance Manager to join a complex operational facility in Birmingham.
This is a key site leadership position with responsibility for the safe, reliable and cost-effective delivery of the plant's maintenance strategy. You will lead a multidisciplinary maintenance function, overseeing planned and reactive maintenance, plant reliability, outages, contractors and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary maintenance team.
- Manage planned, preventative and reactive maintenance activities across the facility.
- Develop and optimise the site's maintenance strategy and CMMS.
- Drive improvements in plant reliability, availability and equipment performance.
- Monitor maintenance KPIs, recurring failures and maintenance backlog, implementing corrective actions where required.
- Plan and coordinate shutdowns and major maintenance outages.
- Manage external contractors and specialist service providers.
- Lead and support root cause analysis for recurring plant and equipment failures.
- Manage maintenance budgets, costs, spares and resources effectively.
- Ensure maintenance activities are completed safely and in accordance with relevant procedures and legislation.
- Work closely with Operations and other site functions to maximise plant performance and availability.
- Ensure compliance with relevant statutory and engineering requirements, including PSSR, LOLER and COSHH.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across maintenance and engineering.
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Requirements
- Previous experience as a Maintenance Manager, Engineering Manager or in a similar maintenance leadership position within a complex industrial environment.
- Experience within power generation or a comparable heavy/process industry.
- Strong understanding of planned, preventative and reactive maintenance.
- Experience managing and developing multidisciplinary maintenance teams.
- Strong working knowledge of mechanical and electrical plant and equipment.
- Previous experience with boilers, steam systems and/or steam turbines would be highly advantageous.
- Experience managing maintenance contractors, shutdowns and major outages.
- Strong understanding of plant reliability, root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
- Experience working with CMMS/maintenance management systems.
- Strong health, safety and compliance awareness within a heavy industrial environment.
- Knowledge of relevant statutory requirements and engineering compliance.
- Relevant engineering qualification or demonstrable equivalent industry experience.
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This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of the maintenance function at a complex power generation facility, with a key role in improving plant reliability, availability and long-term performance.
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