Job Description

Maintenance Manager

Location: Birmingham
Industry: Power Generation
Employment Type: Permanent
Hours: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week

An established power generation business is looking to appoint an experienced Maintenance Manager to join a complex operational facility in Birmingham.

This is a key site leadership position with responsibility for the safe, reliable and cost-effective delivery of the plant's maintenance strategy. You will lead a multidisciplinary maintenance function, overseeing planned and reactive maintenance, plant reliability, outages, contractors and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary maintenance team.
• Manage planned, preventative and reactive maintenance activities across the facility.
• Develop and optimise the site's maintenance strategy and CMMS.
• Drive improvements in plant reliability, availability and equipment performance.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs, recurring failures and maintenance backlog, implementing corrective actions where required.
• Plan and coordinate shutdowns and major maintenance outages.
• Manage external contractors and specialist service providers.
• Lead and support root cause analysis for recurring plant and equipment failures.
• Manage maintenance budgets, costs, spares and resources effectively.
• Ensure maintenance activities are completed safely and in accordance with relevant procedures and legislation.
• Work closely with Operations and other site functions to maximise plant performance and availability.
• Ensure compliance with relevant statutory and engineering requirements, including PSSR, LOLER and COSHH.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across maintenance and engineering.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Maintenance Manager, Engineering Manager or in a similar maintenance leadership position within a complex industrial environment.
• Experience within power generation or a comparable heavy/process industry.
• Strong understanding of planned, preventative and reactive maintenance.
• Experience managing and developing multidisciplinary maintenance teams.
• Strong working knowledge of mechanical and electrical plant and equipment.
• Previous experience with boilers, steam systems and/or steam turbines would be highly advantageous.
• Experience managing maintenance contractors, shutdowns and major outages.
• Strong understanding of plant reliability, root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Experience working with CMMS/maintenance management systems.
• Strong health, safety and compliance awareness within a heavy industrial environment.
• Knowledge of relevant statutory requirements and engineering compliance.
• Relevant engineering qualification or demonstrable equivalent industry experience.

This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of the maintenance function at a complex power generation facility, with a key role in improving plant reliability, availability and long-term performance.

For further information or a confidential discussion, please apply or get in touch.