About The Role
Regional Maintenance Manager
Location
Yorkshire Region
Overview
Keep our operation moving. Raise standards across the region. As a Regional Maintenance Manager at Panda, you’ll 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 strong operational partnership. You’ll help drive uptime, improve standards, reduce repeat failures and build a stronger maintenance culture across the region.
The Role
This role is about bringing structure, consistency and accountability to maintenance performance across multiple sites. You’ll take ownership of maintenance standards across the Yorkshire region, making sure our equipment, plant and facilities are safe, compliant and operating as they should. You’ll work closely with site leaders, maintenance teams, contractors and the Regional Operations Manager to improve reliability, reduce downtime and support safe, efficient operations.
You’ll need to be comfortable moving between strategy and the shop floor—setting maintenance plans, reviewing performance, challenging standards and stepping in practically when operational issues need support.
What You’ll Be Doing
* 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 make sure maintenance standards are being followed
* Managing maintenance teams to ensure the right capability, structure and resource is in place
* Responding to downtime issues and supporting fast, practical resolutionCarrying out root cause analysis to reduce repeat failures
* Reviewing critical spares holdings to minimise unplanned stoppages
* Developing reporting tools to track downtime, reliability and plant performance
* Supporting the delivery and improvement of CMMS across the region
* Supporting site improvement, development and capital projects
* Working closely with operational leaders and contractors to improve reliability and performance
About You
We’re looking for a maintenance leader who knows how to operate in a busy industrial environment and can bring structure, accountability and continuous 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 maintenance 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 maintenance system improvements
* Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with operational leaders
* A practical, hands‑on approach with the confidence to support operational issues where needed
Equal Opportunity
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. (DE&I Policy Statement)
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