Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

Barry

28256/534M

50,000 - 67,000

Benefits:

• A starting salary of 50,000 - 67,000, depending on experience
• Company pension scheme - employer will contribute 6%
• Bonus Scheme - up to 10%
• 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Life Assurance

Our client is a well-established international manufacturing business with a long-standing presence in South Wales. Operating within an advanced industrial manufacturing sector, they supply high-quality products to a diverse global customer base and are committed to maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, and operational excellence.

Roles and Responsibilities:

As the Maintenance Manager you will manage and lead the maintenance team and support reliability, and project delivery function.

Ensure asset integrity, legal compliance, and safe, reliable plant performance while delivering OPEX projects and supporting CAPEX projects aligned to business strategy.

• Own the site maintenance strategy (preventive, predictive, and corrective), aligned with safety requirements and plant criticality.
• Maintain mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control assets to achieve high availability and integrity-especially for high-hazard equipment (e.g., reactors, storage tanks, formaldehyde handling systems).
• Implement reliability-centred maintenance (RCM), failure mode & effects analysis (FMEA), and defect elimination to reduce unplanned downtime.
• Establish and manage spares strategy and obsolescence plans for critical equipment.
• Manage contractors/vendors: pre-qualification, competence assessment, RAMS review, site induction, supervision, and performance.

Requirements

• Previous experience in a Maintenance Manager, Engineering Manager or similar role
• Experience of leading/supporting on CAPEX projects from design through to construction within operating plants.
• Maintenance scheduling & planning of preventive, reactive & shutdown activities, including material management.
• Contractor and vendor management; pre-qualification and performance management.
• Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation and control systems familiarity.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

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