Senior Maintenance Manager

Job Description

A Senior Engineering Maintenance Manager is sought to work at process based manufacturing sites in Hartlepool reporting to the Operations Director and overseeing all aspects of the maintenance of four sites.Within the role of Senior Engineering Manager you will work with the Electrical Engineering Manager with an engineering team to provide high quality and timely services to production department ensuring operations runs smoothly and site equipment is maintainedto the highest standards relating to safety, performance and efficiency. You will be expected to cover for the Electrical Engineering Maintenance Manager for holidaysKey Responsibilities

• Proven experience managing a team in a maintenance process into a production environment.
• Strong leadership capability and operational management experience or CMMS.
• Have a good understanding of Safety, Engineering, Quality and work regulations and a technical understanding of electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems for planning and troubleshooting.
• Experience of automated equipment including sortation / conveyor systems and baling systems. * Experience of working with PLC based control systems/sensors/invertors.
• Creating maintenance schedules and delegating tasks to team/contractors.
• Conducting site inspections.
• Scheduling contractors for major repairs or projects.
• Developing maintenance contracts to budget, negotiating contracts.
• Discussing maintenance concerns and communicating this to the rest of the business.
• Identify suitable suppliers, produce CAPEX budgets and business cases, produce requirements specifications, negotiate new machinery purchases and introduce them effectively.
• Responsible for a team of 9 engineers and the Electrical Engineering Manager, support performance management at individual or team level, conducting performance appraisals for team members, develop and implement training plans in line with business needsand training matrix.
• Generate RAMS in compliance with company policy.
• Issuing Permit to Work and following associated procedures such as Control of Contractors.
• Support effective root cause analysis by close interaction with production and make corrections.
• Responsible for the planning and delivering of the weekly shutdown day.
• Ensure a high standard of safety and housekeeping is maintained including the wearing of relevant PPE, reporting of accidents and potential hazards.

The Person

• Minimum HNC Mechanical Engineering
• A minimum of 7 years experience in a managerial role within Engineering/Maintenance
• Experience in the process based manufacturing industry desirable but not essential
• Good working knowledge of all aspects of Health & Safety legislation, policies, regulatory requirements and inspections, PUWER,LOLER etc.
• Experienced gained in working with a planned preventative maintenance system.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and work to deadlines.
• Good verbal communication skills, including active listening and the ability to translate complex information.
• IT literacy required with solid understanding of Microsoft Office

This role is 45 hours Monday to Friday with some rota based on-call responsibilityThe role comes with a company vanThis is an excellent opportunity to join a forward thinking organisation with good development prospects. If you would like more information

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