Smurfit Westrock
Maintenance Manager
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Description & Requirements
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity, and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees, and the communities where we operate.
At Smurfit Westrock, we're looking for an experienced and people-focused Maintenance Manager to lead all engineering and maintenance activities across our Bristol site.
This is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of production equipment and site infrastructure. You'll play a critical role in maximising asset availability, improving operational efficiency, reducing downtime, and supporting the site's manufacturing and commercial objectives.
Leading a team of Shift Engineers and an Engineering Assistant, you'll champion a culture of safety, continuous improvement, accountability, and technical excellence.
What You'll Be Doing
Safety, Compliance & Engineering Excellence
- Lead and promote a world-class safety culture across all engineering activities.
- Ensure compliance with all company, statutory, environmental, and health & safety requirements.
- Manage risk assessments, permit-to-work systems, contractor management processes, and engineering safety procedures.
- Drive safe working practices and ensure all maintenance work is completed to the highest standards.
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Asset Reliability & Maintenance Strategy
- Develop and implement preventative and predictive maintenance programmes.
- Drive continuous improvements in equipment reliability, plant performance, and uptime.
- Lead root cause analysis activities to identify and eliminate recurring failures.
- Monitor asset performance and implement data-driven solutions to improve operational efficiency.
- Establish and monitor maintenance KPIs to measure effectiveness and support continuous improvement.
Cost Management & Continuous Improvement
- Manage maintenance budgets and expenditure to achieve financial targets.
- Optimise spare parts management and supplier performance to balance cost, availability, and operational risk.
- Deliver engineering improvement projects focused on productivity, reliability, sustainability, and safety.
- Support capital investment planning and site engineering projects.
Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, motivate, coach, and develop the engineering team.
- Manage performance, succession planning, training, and capability development.
- Foster strong collaboration between Engineering, Production, Quality, and Supply Chain functions.
- Provide technical leadership and drive a culture of accountability and continuous learning.
Operational Support
- Develop maintenance schedules that minimise disruption and maximise equipment availability.
- Coordinate planned shutdowns and major maintenance activities.
- Ensure rapid and effective response to equipment breakdowns and operational issues.
- Support production teams in delivering safety, quality, delivery, and efficiency targets.
- Utilise maintenance management systems to drive planning, reporting, and performance improvements.
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About You
You'll be an experienced engineering leader with a proven track record of improving reliability, driving performance, and developing high-performing teams within a manufacturing environment.
Essential Experience
- Significant experience in a Maintenance Manager, Engineering Manager, or senior engineering leadership role.
- Experience leading engineering teams within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance methodologies.
- Demonstrated success in reducing downtime and improving equipment reliability.
- Experience managing maintenance budgets and engineering projects.
- Strong knowledge of health, safety, and environmental standards within manufacturing.
Preferred Qualifications & Experience
- Degree, HNC, HND, or equivalent qualification in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, or Engineering.
- Experience within packaging, paper, corrugated, FMCG, or other high-volume manufacturing environments.
- Knowledge of CMMS systems and reliability engineering tools.
- IOSH, NEBOSH, or other health and safety qualifications.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.
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