Job Title: Maintenance Manager
Salary: £62,500
Location: North Walsham
Hours: Days, 37.5 hours per week (typically between 8am5.30pm)
Ready to step into a senior leadership role where engineering standards, compliance, and long-term site performance are truly in your hands?
This is a senior Maintenance Manager position within a complex, high-volume manufacturing site. Sitting as part of the Senior Leadership Team, youll take full ownership of maintenance strategy, engineering compliance, asset care, and site reliability, while leading a multi-disciplinary engineering function.
The Maintenance Manager will shape how maintenance is delivered, how assets are cared for, and how engineering compliance is governed across the site balancing hands-on technical credibility with strategic leadership.
What Youll Be Doing: Maintenance Manager
Owning and delivering the site-wide Asset Care and Maintenance strategy
Leading all engineering compliance, including health & safety, statutory inspections, and audit readiness
Acting as the senior authority for engineering standards, risk management, and safe systems of work
Managing and developing a multi-layer engineering structure including:
Shift Asset Care Technicians
Compliance Team Leader
Project Engineer
Asset Care Workflow Coordinator
Process Engineer
Driving a zero-accident safety culture across engineering and asset care
Overseeing CMMS usage and developing a data-driven maintenance culture
Leading CAPEX, project delivery, and installation or improvement of production lines
Ensuring all projects meet ISO 9001, BRC-loop, and internal quality standards
Managing budgets, maintenance spend, and long-term asset planning
Supporting continuous improvement, TPM activity, and process capability
Recruiting, coaching, and succession-planning within the engineering function
Working closely with operations, planning, finance, and senior stakeholders
What Were Looking For: Maintenance Manager
Proven experience as a Maintenance Manager or senior engineering leader
Background managing maintenance teams in a manufacturing or industrial environment
Strong understanding of engineering compliance, statutory requirements, and audits
Formal health & safety management training
Solid engineering foundation (mechanical, electrical, or technical bias)
Experience delivering projects using structured project or stage-gate methods
Ability to lead, influence, and hold standards at senior leadership level
Commercial awareness with strong planning and organisational skills
Experience in plastics manufacturing advantageous, not essential
Whats on Offer
Salary: £62,500 per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week, days
Annual leave: 33 days
Pension: 6% employer / 6% employee
Private medical insurance, including dental
Death in service: 2x salary
Senior leadership influence with clear progression potential
Location: North Walsham
Job: Maintenance Manager
Hours: Days
If youre a Maintenance Manager who wants ownership, influence, and the authority to raise standards across maintenance and compliance, this is a role with real substance.
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