Senior Maintenance Process Leader

REQ

JOB TITLE:

Senior Maintenance Process Leader

SALARY: £50,000 - £58,000

POSTING

START DATE:

02/09/2026

POSTING END DATE: 16/09/2026

LOCATION:

Wolverhampton EPMC

In the Manufacturing team at JLR’s Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre (EPMC), you’ll help power iconic electric cars. You will be working alongside incredible technicians and leaders to drive our commitment to shape a future we truly believe in, together. Use your expertise, cutting-edge technology, and problem-solving skills to ensure efficient, sustainable and high-quality production. Fuel the exceptional.

Step into a role where you help shape the future of mobility. As a Manufacturing Senior Maintenance Process Leader in next generation automotive propulsion, you’ll be a key member of the maintenance leadership team driving cleaner, smarter, electrified transportation. If you’re ready to build what moves the world forward, this is your moment.

In this role, no two tasks are the same. With lots of projects and relationships to build with people across the business and beyond, it’s a challenge that will help your career grow within an iconic organisation. Here’s what to expect:

• Provide effective day-to-day leadership and supervision of the maintenance team, ensuring the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of production equipment while delivering performance against Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People, and Environmental (SQDCPE) objectives.
• Lead and coordinate maintenance activities, including reactive repairs, condition-based monitoring, and Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programmes, to maximise equipment availability and operational performance.
• Drive waste reduction and cost-efficiency initiatives across maintenance operations, promoting continuous improvement and the optimisation of resources, materials, and processes.
• Ensure robust shift-to-shift communication processes are in place through the accurate collection, analysis, and dissemination of operational and maintenance performance data.
• Support the deployment and standardisation of the site's maintenance strategy, ensuring alignment with plant objectives, reliability goals, and best practice maintenance principles.
• Lead the development, implementation, and review of training and competency plans for maintenance personnel, ensuring the effective delivery of technical, safety, compliance, and process-related training programmes.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance maintenance methodologies, equipment reliability, and operational performance through structured problem solving and root cause analysis.

Along with your ambition to achieve the exceptional, there are several skills that you’ll need to have to help you succeed here, including:

• Previous experience in a similar role including experience of supervising maintenance operational teams to meet production targets in Manufacturing
• Technical (mechanical and electrical) automotive engineering skills, ideally in a large automated environment
• Experience of specifying and installing new automation to realise productivity targets
• Experience of Environmental controls and practices
• Demonstrable experience in the application of a logical approach to Problem Solving

This role is rewarding in more ways than one. On top of our core offering, you’ll do extraordinary work with amazing people. In addition, you can expect a wide range of benefits:

• Discounted car purchase (open to family members, too)
• A 52 week maternity leave policy and a 4 week paternity leave policy. Other parental leave policies are available
• A competitive pension
• A JLR company performance-related bonus
• An employee learning scheme providing funding for; education, training and…