Engineering Maintenance Manager
hace 2 días
South Ockendon
Engineering Maintenance Manager (Internally known as Maintenance Team Manager) 📍 Location: South Ockendon, RM15 (Onsite) 🕒 Type: Full time, Permanent (Monday to Friday days) Are you an experienced engineering leader with a passion for safety, reliability, and continuous improvement? Do you enjoy developing high-performing maintenance teams and driving plant performance in a fast-paced, automated manufacturing environment? If so, we’d love to hear from you! CHEP is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead the engineering function at our South Ockendon Service Centre. This is a key leadership role where you’ll ensure plant equipment and services are maintained safely, efficiently, and in line with operational and compliance standards. You’ll play a critical role in embedding and maturing the site’s Engineering TPM Maintenance Strategy, driving a proactive, reliability-focused culture across the plant. Working in a highly automated environment, you’ll support PLC-driven systems, lead continuous improvement initiatives, and use data and CMMS insights to improve asset performance and uptime. 🎯 What You’ll Be Responsible For • Leading and developing a team of eight Maintenance Technicians, ensuring high levels of capability, engagement, and accountability, • Embedding and continuously improving the Engineering TPM Maintenance Strategy, driving a shift from reactive to proactive maintenance, • Managing breakdowns and planned maintenance activities, deploying internal and external resources effectively, • Developing and delivering a robust Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) strategy, ensuring compliance and closing maintenance gaps, • Driving equipment reliability through optimisation, standard procedures, and performance monitoring, • Managing engineering data systems and ensuring strong CMMS compliance and data integrity, • Supporting engineering and capex projects, including specification, installation, and commissioning of new automated equipment, • Owning maintenance budgets and controlling maintenance material spend, • Managing contractors on site in line with legal, safety, and company requirements, • Conducting risk assessments and ensuring full compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental standards, • Identifying and delivering continuous improvement and business improvement opportunities ✅ What We’re Looking For • Proven experience leading maintenance or engineering teams within a manufacturing or industrial environment, • Strong technical background with experience in mechanical and/or electrical disciplines, • Experience working in automated plants, ideally with exposure to PLCcontrolled systems, • Track record of embedding TPM or reliabilitybased maintenance strategies, • Experience using CMMS systems, with implementation or optimisation experience highly advantageous, • Strong understanding of Health & Safety legislation and best practice, • Experience managing maintenance budgets and P&L responsibilities, • Confident people leader with strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills, • Resilient, proactive, and comfortable leading change in a fast-paced environment 🎓Qualifications Essential: • Completed Level 3 recognised engineering apprenticeship (mechanical and/or electrical), • NEBOSH, • 18th Edition, • PLC experience 💼What’s in It for You? • Certified Top 17 Global Employer, • Annual bonus up to 10% based on company and individual performance, • Private healthcare (single cover), • Flexible working, • 25 days holiday + statutory holidays, with the option to buy/sell 5 additional days, • 7.5% company pension contribution, • Life Assurance, • Employee Assistance Programme
