Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

Working Pattern: 5 over 7, 40 hours per week

Location: Leicester, LE3 8JR

The role

The Maintenance Manager will be responsible for managing and leading the engineering functions in our fast paced production facility. The Maintenance Manager will be involved in managing engineers, Capital Expenditure, Man Management of all engineering staff and the Plant reliability. The Ideal candidate will come from a fast paced manufacturing background and be highly motivated to make a positive impact.

Main responsibilities include:

• As our Maintenance Manager you will ensure the delivery of an effective maintenance programme. You’ll work collaboratively with our Operations, Hygiene, Technical and Engineering teams to plan and schedule all maintenance activities including breakdowns. scheduled compliance works and pre-planned maintenance.
• Actively engage and promote an effective health and safety culture
• You will lead the Engineering Management team to ensure we are always audit ready, this includes contractor permit completion, blade logs, hand back forms etc.
• You will be responsible for successfully utilising our CMMS maintenance system, including adequate use of the PPM schedule, work requests and work orders.
• You will ensure we have sufficient spare parts, and an embedded process to replace parts when used
• You will review plant maintenance and look for continuous improvement opportunities to decrease breakdowns, and effectively and efficiently make the most of pre-planned maintenance windows.
• Responsible for reporting leading and lagging planning KPI’s to the weekly engineering meeting
• Responsible for 3rd party planning – service contracts, compliance visits, annual servicing
• You will be responsible for delivery your sites budget, as well as having input to the budget for the following year.
• You will ensure our engineering team is being managed effectively, including management of absence, poor performance as well as developing their skills where necessary.
• You will take a lead and support your engineering team to land all capital projects on time and to budget
• Responsible for the training and development of your team to ensure your department deliver an effective and efficient maintenance

About Us

At Geary’s Bakeries, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906.

We are ‘born and bread’ in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today, we operate from three sites on a 24/7 operation. We’re made up of towards 900 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.

The business has grown rapidly from £5m in annual sales to £125m+ in the last 15 years with strong and consistent profitability. We have an ambition to increase sales to more than £200m+ in the next 3- 5 years. A clear Vision and Strategy has been articulated, and this is being backed with major capital investment and a renewal and upgrading of the people, processes, and systems.

Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, BUPA Cashback Plan, Death In Service, a Cycle to Work scheme and a chance to win a £10k worth prizes annually! Plus, if you refer a friend to join our team, you could earn up to £500!

• free delicious bread
• BUPA Cashback Plan
• Death In Service
• a Cycle to Work scheme
• a chance to win a £10k worth prizes annually!
• if you refer a friend to join our team, you could earn up to £500!

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About You

At Geary’s, we look for people who show up every day to do their best. We’re a passionate, friendly team and look for the same qualities in our new recruits. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in a similar role within the FMCG (ideally food) manufacturing sector.
• Engineering degree or equivalent experience Min L3
• Knowledge of mechanical / electrical systems, PLC, HMI, Robots, and drives is essential.
• Strong people management, planning, and process control skills, Ability to manage staff according to policies and procedures.
• Must be a self-starter, able to analyse performance and look for opportunities to improve
• Awareness of H&S, Quality, and Food Safety.
• Project Management and Continuous Improvement experience.
• Able to produce reports detailing OEE, downtime, budgetary performance, trends etc

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at point of interview, and for the tenure of employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.

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