About the Role
Regional Maintenance Manager – Yorkshire Region
Keep our operation moving. Raise standards across the region.
At Panda, we do more than manage waste. We power the circular economy by turning waste into value, and that takes reliable, safe, high-performing sites.
We’re looking for a Regional Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance across our Yorkshire operations, covering both mobile equipment and static plant machinery across a varied network of recycling and waste management facilities.
This is a key leadership role for someone who can combine hands‑on engineering credibility, maintenance strategy and operational partnership. You’ll help drive uptime, improve standards, reduce failure, and build a strong maintenance culture across the region.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll take ownership of maintenance performance across multiple sites, making sure our equipment, plant and facilities are safe, compliant and operating as they should.
Your focus will include:
* Leading maintenance activity across the Yorkshire region
* Building and embedding effective maintenance plans across all sites
* Driving high standards in safety, compliance and engineering discipline
* Ensuring statutory inspections are planned, completed and kept up to date
* Auditing sites regularly to check maintenance standards are being met
* Managing maintenance teams to ensure the right capability and resource is in place
* Responding to downtime issues and supporting fast, practical resolution
* Carrying out root cause analysis to reduce repeat failures
* Reviewing critical spares holdings to minimise unplanned stoppages
* Developing reporting tools to track downtime and plant performance
* Delivering a CMMS approach across the region
* Supporting site improvement and development projects
* Working closely with site leaders, contractors and the Regional Operations Manager to improve reliability and performance
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for a maintenance leader who knows how to operate in a busy industrial environment and can bring structure, accountability and improvement across a multi‑site region.
You’ll likely bring:
* Strong maintenance leadership experience in waste, recycling, manufacturing, heavy industry or a similar operational environment
* Experience managing both static plant and mobile equipment
* A strong understanding of maintenance planning, compliance and engineering best practice
* Good knowledge of health and safety standards including isolation, lock off and safe systems of work
* Experience leading teams across multiple sites or a regional operation
* A track record of reducing downtime and improving plant reliability
* Confidence managing contractors, projects and improvement activity
* Experience with CMMS systems or leading maintenance system improvements
* Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with operational leaders
* A practical, hands‑on approach with the ability to step in and support where needed
Why join Panda?
This is a chance to take on a role with real visibility and impact across the region.
You’ll be joining a business that is continuing to invest in its people, sites and operational capability. In return, you’ll have the opportunity to shape maintenance standards, improve plant performance and play a key part in how we deliver safe, efficient and reliable operations.
At Panda, we value people who take ownership, solve problems and want to make things better.
Panda is committed to attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the communities in which we operate and the people we serve.
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