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Production Maintenance Manager
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Production Maintenance Manager
Production Maintenance Manager
Location: Worcester
Salary: Highly competitive salary + excellent executive-level benefits
About Yamazaki Mazak
Yamazaki Mazak is a globally recognised leader in advanced machine tool manufacturing, with a long-standing reputation for engineering excellence, precision and innovation.
Based at their Worcester facility, this is a rare opportunity to step into a newly created leadership role, with genuine influence over the future of maintenance and reliability strategy within a world-class manufacturing environment.
This is not a maintenance “support” role—it is a key operational leadership position within the senior production team, shaping how equipment performance, reliability and engineering standards evolve across the site.
The Role
As Production Maintenance Manager, you will take full ownership of the site maintenance function, leading a skilled engineering team and driving a step-change in equipment reliability, uptime and maintenance maturity.
You will be responsible for transitioning the operation from a predominantly reactive model to a fully planned, data-driven and preventative maintenance culture, aligned to best-in-class manufacturing standards.
Working closely with Production, Engineering and Senior Leadership, you will play a pivotal role in improving plant performance and enabling operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, develop and inspire the maintenance team to deliver high performance, accountability and continuous improvement
- Design, implement and embed a robust preventative and predictive maintenance strategy across all production equipment
- Drive measurable improvements in machine reliability, uptime and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Own maintenance planning systems, ensuring disciplined execution and high-quality engineering standards
- Use maintenance and reliability data to identify failure trends, root causes and long-term corrective actions
- Manage maintenance budgets, spares strategy and external contractor performance
- Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives with Production and Engineering to optimise plant performance
- Establish and sustain a proactive, improvement-led maintenance culture across the site
- Ensure full compliance with safety, quality and engineering standards at all times
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About You
We are seeking an experienced engineering or maintenance leader who thrives in complex manufacturing environments and is motivated by driving real operational change.
Essential Requirements
You will bring:
- Proven experience leading maintenance or engineering teams in a manufacturing or industrial environment
- Strong background in implementing preventative and reliability-focused maintenance strategies
- A track record of improving equipment performance, uptime and plant stability
- Excellent understanding of maintenance KPIs, data analysis and performance improvement
- Strong leadership capability, with experience developing and engaging technical teams
- Commercial awareness, with the ability to manage budgets and engineering resources effectively
- Confidence operating at senior level and influencing across production, engineering and operations
- A practical, hands-on engineering mindset combined with strategic thinking
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Desirable
- Experience within precision engineering, machine tools, automotive, aerospace or other high-spec manufacturing environments
The Opportunity
This is a high-impact leadership role within a globally respected engineering organisation, offering the opportunity to shape maintenance strategy at a site that values quality, precision and continuous improvement.
Benefits Include:
- Competitive executive-level salary package
- 8% employer pension contribution
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance (death in service)
- Full sick pay
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Subsidised restaurant
- Free on-site parking
- Long-term career progression within a global manufacturing group
Summary
This is an opportunity for a proven Maintenance Manager to step into a strategically important role, where you will directly influence plant performance, engineering standards and long-term operational capability.
If you are driven by reliability excellence, structured improvement and leading high-performing engineering teams, we would welcome your application.
Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. To ensure effective processing, please include your:
- Name, email address
- Phone number
- Location (postcode, town or county, minimum requirement)
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