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Salary: Circa GBP60,000 per annum
Location: Bedfordshire
Position Type: Full-time, Permanent
Job Purpose
We are seeking a dynamic and proactive Maintenance Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary site engineering function. This role balances strategic leadership with a hands-on approach when required. You will be responsible for driving plant reliability, ensuring asset optimization, and maintaining the highest operational standards. This is an excellent opportunity to manage engineering resources, oversee budgets, lead facility management, and develop a high-performing team within a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of multi-skilled engineers (including 2 direct reports) to foster a culture of continuous improvement, autonomous maintenance, and engineering excellence.
- Asset Reliability: Maintain high equipment availability through robust planned preventative maintenance (PPM) programmes, minimizing downtime and optimizing machinery changeovers.
- Financial and Project Management: Prepare and manage the annual engineering operating budget. Assist in delivering capital projects from initial concept and feasibility through to installation, commissioning, and completion.
- Operational Collaboration: Partner closely with Production, Operations, Procurement, and Quality assurance teams to prioritize workloads, improve line efficiency, and ensure seamless production continuity.
- Health and Safety and Compliance: Ensure full legal and corporate compliance across health and safety, food safety, and environmental standards. Collaborate on risk assessments, Safe Systems of Work (SSOW), and contractor controls.
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Candidate Requirements
- Experience: Proven track record in an engineering or maintenance leadership role within an FMCG, manufacturing, or similar fast-paced operational environment.
- Qualifications: Recognised engineering qualification (Mechanical and/or Electrical); an electrical qualification is highly desirable.
- Skills: Strong coaching and mentoring capability with the ability to implement engineering strategy and continuous improvement processes.
- Attributes: A decisive, data-driven problem solver who is comfortable influencing stakeholders and driving positive change in a routine-flexible environment.
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Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
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