Reporting to the Site Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of day-to-day maintenance coordination and financial performance within your delegated authority at an industrial manufacturing site. A key priority will be understanding what is driving expenditure, challenging avoidable costs and implementing practical controls around overtime, work allocation and scheduling. You will need to demonstrate previous success managing maintenance budgets and delivering measurable savings while maintaining safety, equipment reliability and production requirements.
Key responsibilities
- Monitor maintenance expenditure against budget, investigate variances and implement corrective actions
- Analyse overtime, call-outs, labour allocation and work orders to identify unnecessary expenditure
- Introduce consistent overtime pre-approval and verify timesheets against completed maintenance activities
- Deliver a findings report and practical savings plan within the first four weeks
- Provide weekly cost and performance updates, supported by monthly budget, savings and risk reporting
- Agree weekly maintenance schedules with Production and coordinate trades, contractors and vendors
- Improve preventive maintenance compliance and reduce reliance on reactive maintenance
- Prioritise maintenance backlogs according to equipment criticality and production needs
- Lead daily maintenance prestarts, allocate work and set transparent expectations
- Maintain strong standards for safe isolation, lockout/tagout, permits to work and contractor management
About you
- A relevant mechanical or electrical trade qualification, or engineering qualification, backed by substantial industrial maintenance experience
- Demonstrated experience supervising maintenance teams in manufacturing or industrial environments
- Proven ownership of maintenance budgets, including investigating overspend, controlling overtime and delivering measurable cost improvements
- Practical knowledge of mechanical and electrical maintenance, equipment reliability and shutdown coordination
- Strong CMMS experience, including work orders, preventive maintenance schedules and backlog management
- Confidence analysing maintenance costs and timekeeping data using Excel
- Clear communication, sound judgement and the ability to hold people accountable while maintaining productive working relationships