Maintenance Manager

Overview

As Maintenance Manager at Kerry Coleraine, you will lead a team of eight engineers to maximise equipment availability and drive maintenance excellence across a growing cheese, sauces and syrups site. You’ll steer preventative maintenance, safety compliance, and rapid problem-solving to cut downtime and support production. You will partner with Production and other functions on site projects and expansions, shaping reliable, efficient operations in a safety-first environment. This is a permanent, day-shift role offering career growth within a global leader.

Pay / Benefits

• health care cover
• matched pension scheme up to 10%
• 25 days’ annual leave
• share scheme
• employee assistance programme
• continuous training

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of 8 engineers with clear direction and coaching
• Manage daily maintenance activities to balance planned versus urgent work and minimise downtime
• Deliver and maintain the preventative maintenance and asset care programme
• Improve equipment reliability by addressing recurring issues and reducing emergency repairs
• Provide technical support for breakdowns and troubleshooting
• Ensure health & safety and compliance across engineering activities
• Collaborate with Production and site teams to prioritise and improve operations
• Support site projects including equipment installation, upgrades and overhauls, and manage contractors, spares, and budget
• Monitor maintenance KPIs and keep accurate documentation

Key requirements

• Relevant electrical or mechanical qualification, diploma or degree
• At least 5 years’ experience in a similar role within manufacturing
• Previous leadership experience in a manufacturing environment
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Hands-on leadership with ability to build relationships across functions
• Fluent English
• Good Microsoft Office and SAP skills

• people leadership
• relationship building
• cross-functional collaboration
• troubleshooting
• maintenance planning
• preventative maintenance

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