Job Summary A Truly Global Business
Every day, around the world, we help aircrafts fly further, faster and greener. Were the worlds leading tier one aerospace supplier of systems and components. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries serving over 90% of the worlds aircraft and engine manufacturers with sales of £3.35bn. Together as one GKN were moving our business and industry forward developing technologies that rapidly decarbonise aircraft, and innovating to help build a new generation of planes that produce zero emissions. Were putting sustainability at the heart of what we do; driving our objective to becoming a net zero greenhouse gas emissions business before 2050!
Our purpose-built, modern manufacturing facility at Western Approach (nr Severn Beach) is an International Centre of Excellence in composite wing structure design and production. With circa. 350 employees, we manufacture composite wing spars and Fixed Trailing Edge assemblies for some of the world's most popular aircraft.
A rare opportunity to become our Maintenance Manager has arisen. In this role you will lead a team of 10 people to manage our 24/7 facilities and assets to ensure continuous production. You will help us to continually develop site work processes, ensure regulatory compliance and help us continue to deliver results which are the best of industry practice level. This is a Monday-Friday role.
How You'll Contribute
In this key role, you will:
Manage a multi-disciplined team
Deliver incremental improvements in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Manage service contracts, having responsibility of a budget of circa. £2million
Collaborate with Continuous Improvement Function partners, be accountable for deploying the Global Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Programme.
Implement the short and long term Maintenance people strategy
Implement the standard ("One GKNA" process) and KPIs for the Maintenance function;
Exemplify a safety-first mindset
Drive asset uptime and reliability through tactical and strategic activities
Support quality and manufacturing engineering
Collect and analyse data to support continuous improvement activities
Work with Operations Lead in presentation of data to senior stakeholders
Manage contractors and ensure services are delivered in line with expectations
Drive TPM
What You'll Bring To help us make a difference, youll bring your passion and expertise/ talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:
Essential Experience:
Experience leading amaintenance team, preferably within a manufacturing environment
Technical expertise in maintenance management
Experience of working to implement functional capability
Desirable Experience:
Experience of Continuous improvement and LEAN methodologies
Experience of working on complex technical projects in global organisations
Project / Programme Management
Detailed knowledge of Maintenance Systems (CMMS)
Behaviours:
Proven change agent
Advanced communication and influencing skills
Proven structured Problem Solving experience
What We'll Offer Once youre on board youll get the following perks and benefits:
Competitive salary dependent on experience
Up to 15% Bonus annually
Industry Leading Pension Scheme = well match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
Life Assurance 8 x salary
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Flexible working hours
Income protection
Shopping discounts
Cycle To Work Scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family
A collaborative, dynamic working environment
As well as a competitive package well offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! Well support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. Thats the beauty of being part of a global business, once youre on board you never know where you career journey may take you!
Why Join Us
Well offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles weve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. Its a culture that won us The Best Workplace Culture Award. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
Were also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
We arethe place where human dreams, plus humanendeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
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