Maintenance Manager

Job Title:

Maintenance Manager

Salary: £62,500

Location:

North Walsham

Hours:

Days, 37.5 hours per week (typically between 8am–5.30pm)

Ready to step into a senior leadership role where engineering standards, compliance, and long-term site performance are truly in your hands?

This is a senior Maintenance Manager position within a complex, high-volume manufacturing site. Sitting as part of the Senior Leadership Team, you’ll take full ownership of maintenance strategy, engineering compliance, asset care, and site reliability, while leading a multi-disciplinary engineering function.

The Maintenance Manager will shape how maintenance is delivered, how assets are cared for, and how engineering compliance is governed across the site — balancing hands-on technical credibility with strategic leadership.

What You’ll Be Doing:
Maintenance Manager

* Owning and delivering the site-wide Asset Care and Maintenance strategy

* Leading all engineering compliance, including health & safety, statutory inspections, and audit readiness

* Acting as the senior authority for engineering standards, risk management, and safe systems of work

* Managing and developing a multi-layer engineering structure including:

* Shift Asset Care Technicians

* Compliance Team Leader

* Project Engineer

* Asset Care Workflow Coordinator

* Process Engineer

* Driving a zero-accident safety culture across engineering and asset care

* Overseeing CMMS usage and developing a data-driven maintenance culture

* Leading CAPEX, project delivery, and installation or improvement of production lines

* Ensuring all projects meet ISO 9001, BRC-loop, and internal quality standards

* Managing budgets, maintenance spend, and long-term asset planning

* Supporting continuous improvement, TPM activity, and process capability

* Recruiting, coaching, and succession-planning within the engineering function

* Working closely with operations, planning, finance, and senior stakeholders

What We’re Looking For:

Maintenance Manager

* Proven experience as a Maintenance Manager or senior engineering leader

* Background managing maintenance teams in a manufacturing or industrial environment

* Strong understanding of engineering compliance, statutory requirements, and audits

* Formal health & safety management training

* Solid engineering foundation (mechanical, electrical, or technical bias)

* Experience delivering projects using structured project or stage-gate methods

* Ability to lead, influence, and hold standards at senior leadership level

* Commercial awareness with strong planning and organisational skills

* Experience in plastics manufacturing advantageous, not essential

What’s on Offer

Salary: £62,500 per annum

Hours:

37.5 per week, days

Annual leave: 33 days

Pension: 6% employer / 6% employee

Private medical insurance, including dental

Death in service: 2x salary

Senior leadership influence with clear progression potential

Location:

North Walsham
Job:
Maintenance Manager

Hours:

Days

If you’re a Maintenance Manager who wants ownership, influence, and the authority to raise standards across maintenance and compliance, this is a role with real substance