Job Description
Engineering/Maintenance Manager Tewkesbury - £60-65k DOELead site maintenance Preventative strategy KPI reporting to SMT/Board
Department: Maintenance\n
Base Location: Tewkesbury\n
Hours: 45 hours per week\n
Responsible for: Engineering (Maintenance) Team\n
The Role\n
As Engineering / Maintenance Manager, youll lead the maintenance function to keep our buildings, facilities and production equipment operating safely, reliably and efficiently. Youll shape a preventative maintenance culture, reduce downtime, manage budgets and contractors, and act as the vital link between engineering, production teams and senior leadership.
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Key Responsibilities\n
\n - Preventative Maintenance: Plan and deliver robust PM programs to prevent unexpected breakdowns.
\n - Data & Improvement: Analyse maintenance data, identify trends, improve processes and optimise performance. Report KPIs, departmental focus and potential risks monthly to the Board/SMT.
\n - Team Leadership: Recruit, train, schedule, supervise and motivate the maintenance team. Ensure the department is structured to support key operational functions.
\n - Maintenance Operations: Develop and implement maintenance strategies, procedures and standards; oversee repairs, upkeep and installations.
\n - Engagement: Work closely with site departments daily to drive performance, quality and efficiency through continuous improvement.
\n - Safety & Compliance: Enforce safety policies, procedures and regulatory standards.
\n - Asset & Facility Upkeep: Maintain maximum equipment efficiency while protecting facility standards.
\n - Budget & Cost Control: Manage budgets, procurement and costs while maintaining operational performance.
\n - Contractor Management: Control contractor performance, quality, budgets and safety.
\n - Support & Mentoring: Coach and support engineers with fault-finding, upgrades and best practice.
\n - Operational Resilience: Ensure resources are in place to react to out-of-hours breakdowns and minimise downtime.
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What Youll Bring\n \n - Technical Proficiency: Strong electrical and mechanical understanding; strategic thinker with excellent organisation and time management.
\n - Problem Solving: Confident diagnosing root causes and implementing effective solutions under pressure.
\n - Leadership & People Skills: Ability to motivate a diverse team and build strong working relationships across departments.
\n - Project / Design Skills: Experience using design/visualisation tools such as AutoCAD.
\n - Administration: Competent in budgeting, procurement, reporting and maintenance scheduling software.
\n - Flexibility: A flexible approach to working hours, supporting operational needs.
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Why Join Us?\n \n - A visible, site-critical leadership role with real influence on performance and reliability.
\n - The opportunity to embed preventative maintenance and continuous improvement across the business.
\n - Be part of a long-established, values-led, family-owned organisation.
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Group Life (Death In Service) at 3 x Annual Salary after probation
\n Private Medical Insurance with AXA after probation
\n Enhanced health & wellbeing cashback scheme with Simply Health from 3 months
\n Enhanced pension: 6.5% employee minimum, 7.0% employer contribution under Salary Exchange\n
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