Proactive Maintenance Manager

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We’re looking for a PRIME Maintenance Manager to lead the delivery of proactive and reactive maintenance activities across our Wastewater Recycling assets within the Eastern region.

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a team of highly skilled Electrical and Mechanical Technicians, ensuring our critical assets operate safely, reliably and efficiently. You'll play a key role in driving asset performance, reducing operational risk and delivering long-term improvements that support environmental compliance and customer service.

As PRIME Maintenance Manager, you'll take ownership of maintenance strategies that maximise asset availability, improve reliability and reduce the whole-life cost of our equipment. Working closely with Operations, Reliability, Asset Care and Capital Delivery teams, you’ll ensure maintenance activities are prioritised effectively and that interventions are completed before failures occur wherever possible.

A major focus of the role will be leading and developing proactive maintenance approaches, including condition monitoring, asset health assessments and predictive maintenance activities. You'll champion a "replace before failure" mindset, ensuring maintenance decisions are driven by data, risk and operational need.

You’ll also lead the delivery of insourced maintenance and improvement activities, identifying opportunities to bring more work in-house and reduce reliance on external contractors. Through strong leadership and technical expertise, you'll create a culture of continuous improvement, empowering teams to deliver high-quality maintenance outcomes safely and efficiently.

Working across a varied asset base, you’ll collaborate with field teams to establish clear maintenance standards, define best practices and develop practical solutions to operational challenges. You’ll also be instrumental in identifying future skills requirements, supporting workforce development and ensuring our teams have the capability needed to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

In addition, you will:

• Lead a team of Mechanical and Electrical maintenance professionals.
• Drive asset reliability, availability and performance improvements.
• Develop and implement proactive maintenance strategies across the region.
• Support pollution response and future prevention through effective maintenance delivery.
• Work with Asset Care and Reliability teams to optimise asset health monitoring and maintenance planning.
• Deliver continuous improvement initiatives that increase productivity, efficiency and safety.
• Build strong relationships across operational, engineering and leadership teams.
• Identify training and development opportunities to enhance technical capability across the workforce.

We're looking for a technically competent and inspiring leader with a passion for maintenance excellence and asset reliability.

You'll be comfortable influencing at all levels of the organisation and able to build strong working relationships across both operational and technical teams. You'll have the confidence to challenge existing approaches, drive improvements and bring people with you on the journey.

To be successful in this role, you'll have:

• A minimum Level 3 qualification (BTEC, NVQ or equivalent) in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Proven experience leading maintenance teams within an industrial, manufacturing, utilities or process environment.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance planning, reliability improvement and asset management principles.
• Experience developing proactive and preventative maintenance strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A strong focus on safety, compliance and continuous improvement.
• The ability to analyse asset performance data and make informed maintenance decisions.

Skills and experience are important, but character, positivity and a caring attitude matter too.

It’s not just a job; it’s a career.

We offer benefits that reward great work and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. You'll also play a vital role in protecting the environment and supporting our communities.

Some of our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days each year)
• Annual bonus scheme (up to £2,250, subject to eligibility)
• Industry-leading pension scheme – we'll double your contribution up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%
• Sharesave scheme – the opportunity to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• Dedicated training and development through our Academy
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail discounts
• Family-friendly policies
• Two paid volunteering days per year

We can’t wait to hear from you.

If you're a passionate maintenance leader who thrives on improving asset performance, developing people and delivering operational excellence, we'd love to hear from you.