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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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