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Maintenance Shift Manager
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Maintenance Shift Manager
Salary: £54,088 - £58,022 subject to experience, £9,000 per annum pro rata shift allowance, 10% annual bonus potential
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
- Fixed Term, 12 month duration
- Full time
Midlands Super Hub, Drift Drive, Crick, Northampton, NN6 7GZ
We are looking for an experienced Maintenance Shift Manager to provide technical leadership and operational excellence across our engineering function. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a skilled maintenance team, champion safety and reliability, and drive continuous improvement initiatives that support business performance.
- Lead and promote a safety culture to include hazard identifications, risk assessments, incident investigations, and implement corrective and preventive actions. Ensure complete compliance with all safety regulations across automation assets
- Develop and execute shift maintenance strategies to meet production targets and reliability goals
- Supervise, coach, and evaluate maintenance technicians and the SME to enable a high-performance culture
- The line management of maintenance teams, manage performance, attendance and leave, address employee relations matters, and ensure full compliance with HR policies and procedures
- Drive maintenance performance through effective planning and delivery of preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities
- Manage shift budgets, track expenses, and implement cost-control measures for labour, materials, and external services
- Lead root-cause analyses of equipment failures, implement corrective actions, and monitor effectiveness
- Coordinate with Production, Engineering, and Procurement to schedule shutdowns, capital projects, and resource allocation
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Attendance
Full time, equivalent to 41 hours per week. 12 hour shifts, 07.00 – 19.00 and 19.00 – 07.00, on a 4-week rota to include 2 weekends per month
About You
You need to demonstrate the following skills and experience on your CV:
- A qualified engineer, minimum NVQ level 4 in Electrical and Mechanical / Lead Engineering Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship – essential requirement
- Experience of leading, coaching and developing a team of engineers to improve performance - essential requirement
- Extensive experience in industrial engineering maintenance, including several years in a supervisory or lead role
- Hands-on expertise with PLCs, hydraulics/pneumatics, electrical and mechanical automation systems and multi-shift operations
- Strategic leadership, project and change management
- Advanced fault-finding and root-cause analysis (5-Whys, Fishbone, DMAIC) and leading continuous-improvement programmes (Lean, Six Sigma, TPM)
- Stakeholder communication and team development across shifts
- Data analysis, KPI monitoring and maintenance performance reporting
- HNC/HND in Mechanical, Electrical or Engineering Maintenance
- NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety (or higher)
- IOSH Managing Safely or working towards
- ILM/CMI Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management
Closing Date
Wednesday 26th August. This advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
Extra Benefits
- Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
- Supportive and generous company sick pay
- Benefits Account – You will have access to your personal benefits account on our ‘My Bundle+’ platform. There are more than 800 retail offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills as well as employer provided and voluntary benefits to suit your lifestyle
- Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone
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