Maintenance manager

Maintenance Manager

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We are currently seeking a dynamic Maintenance Manager to lead the Maintenance Department at the Unilin Chesterfield site. This role is accountable for setting the strategic direction, driving reliability improvements, and ensuring alignment with group-wide standards. The successful candidate will empower supervisors and technicians to deliver operational excellence, while focusing on long-term strategy, innovation, and performance against both site and group KPIs.
The primary objective is to lead the maintenance function strategically, ensuring the department contributes to site KPIs, drives cost efficiency, and sustains a culture of continuous improvement. The Maintenance Manager must inspire, coach, and empower leaders, while collaborating across the UK/Ireland operations and the wider UNILIN Group.
Knowledge & Experience
• Engineering qualification with relevant industry experience.
• 5+ years of senior people management experience, including managing managers.
• Proven track record in leading maintenance organizations and delivering operational KPIs.
• Expertise in maintenance techniques: TPM, PPM, CBM, and RCM.
• Strong ability to identify systemic process improvements and implement preventive strategies.
• Proficiency in CMMS systems; SAP experience highly advantageous.
• Experience in stores management and stock control oversight.
• Track record of tackling and resolving complex maintenance challenges.
Core Competencies
• Shows drive and initiative. Is committed to excellence and pursues high standards.
• Strong leadership, people management and motivational skills.
• Is a natural and charismatic leader with the necessary empathy to understand the drivers of another person and to motivate teams. Promotes teamwork and a positive team spirit.
• Inspires people to excel and foster a sense of ‘drive’, ownership and personal commitment to the job and organisation.
• Communicates in an open, direct and transparent manner, without avoiding discussions.
• Is flexible, adapts easily to a changing and dynamic environment, deals with ambiguity.
• Builds confidence among internal and external stakeholders by ensuring consistency between agreements and actions, through authenticity and by taking responsibility.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Strong organisational, problem solving, and time management skills.
• Personal commitment, motivation, high energy, and resilience.
• Capable of motivating and setting targets for site department & teams.
• Proficient in Microsoft and SAP Software Systems preferred.
• Excellent communication & organisational skills at all levels.
• Ability to quickly establish credibility, trust and be decisive.
• Excellent customer service focus & perspective.
Principal Responsibilities
• Provide strategic leadership to the Maintenance Department, ensuring alignment with site and group objectives.
• Lead and develop maintenance supervisor and technicians, ensuring they deliver day-to-day operational excellence.
• Champion health, safety, and compliance across all maintenance activities.
• Reinforce values and maintenance strategy through consistent communication and leadership presence.
• Drive continuous improvement culture across the plant, auditing and challenging to sustain high standards.
• Identify and deliver cost savings, efficiency gains, and reliability improvements at a departmental and site-wide level.
• Ensure all Maintenance personnel are trained, developed, and empowered to achieve optimum performance.
• Collaborate closely with Plant Manager and Operations & Engineering Manager IRL/UK, to implement strategy, standards, and new techniques.
• Mentor managers in RCA methodologies to ensure systemic resolution of downtime issues.
• Oversee effective use of SAP CMMS, ensuring proactive maintenance planning and reduction of reactive work.
• Continuously evolve TPMs and PMs to strengthen reliability and prevent future downtime.
• Anticipate and propose future site CAPEX projects to safeguard KPI performance.
• Travel when required to represent Chesterfield site at quarterly Unilin Engineering/CI group meetings, sharing best practices and innovations.
• Provide regular progress reports to the Plant Manager.
• Flexibility in working hours may be required to meet strategic demands of the site.
The appointee may be required to perform other responsibilities as appropriate to the post, from time to time. This briefing prospectus which includes the job and person specification will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances. It is not intended to be exhaustive but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the appointed individual will work.
Equal Opportunity
UNILIN Insulation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Terms & Conditions

An attractive remuneration package will be on offer to the selected candidate.

Candidates should note that any offer of employment will be made subject to satisfactory reference checks as well as any other background checks or assessments considered appropriate to the process. #insulation #LI-LK1

What can you expect?

Unilin is a fast-growing, profitable and bustling group that is active internationally. Innovation is our driving force. Investing in people, technology and sustainable entrepreneurship is characteristic of our culture.

Unilin thrives thanks to a team of colleagues that pride themselves on professionalism and entrepreneurship.

In exchange for your expertise, creativity and dynamism, Unilin offers an attractive salary supplemented with fringe benefits, career opportunities, challenges abroad and a wide range of training options.

Who are we?

Unilin Group is an international reference in interior design and construction industry solutions with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation. With our floors, panels, insulation materials and technologies we are present in the homes and workplaces of millions of people and in public spaces across the globe. Our brands Quick-Step, Pergo and Moduleo probably ring a bell. Every day, some 8,300 employees around the world dig deep to push boundaries and innovate. Want to learn more about us? Then be sure to check out our website.

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