Maintenance Manager (Permanent)

Acorn Recruitment is searching for a Maintenance Manager to join our client based in Preston.

The successful candidate will co-ordinate all maintenance schedules and the budget as well as all ongoing maintenance projects/refurbishment programmes and plan resources. This is a hands-on technical role ensuring equipment and buildings are maintained to a high standard plus managing a small team of skilled operatives.

The ideal candidate will have excellent organisational skills plus the ability to use a variety of computer systems competently. They must be multi-skilled and happy to put their hand to anything but a biased towards electrical maintenance is preferred. They must show the ability and have experience in implementing preventative and planned maintenance schedules and work within set budgets.

Key Responsibilities:

* Overseeing the planning and implementation of schedules of work plus any reactive maintenance required across the business.
* Responsible for ensuring control of all maintenance budgets to annual target
* Completion of electrical maintenance across sites
* Supervising and motivating a team of operatives
* Installation of new equipment
* Reviewing worker performance
* Identifying training needs
* Ensure periodic and preventative maintenance schedules are appropriately scheduled and accomplished.
* Ensure emergency troubleshooting/maintenance support are readily available as needed.
* Liaise with production to schedule plant/equipment maintenance
* Managing maintenance goal setting, activity scheduling and work allocation to ensure measurable goals, balanced workload distribution and effective staff management
* Monitoring and continually improving maintenance processes and maintenance personnel performance to achieve best in class levels of efficiency
* Identify improvement opportunities, and progress with team(s) and line management, including the development of the preventative maintenance program

Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
* Supervisory experience with heavy machinery, production lines or related fields
* Strong critical thinking and organisational skills
* Ability to identify and solve inefficiencies in processes

Hours of work are Monday to Friday, day shift.
Salary is dependent on the experience to offer.

Acorn Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment.