Shift: Monday to Friday, Days Salary: £65,000+ + Bonus + Excellent Benefits Location: Exeter
Are you an experienced Maintenance Manager or Engineering Manager within a large production environment looking for an opportunity to lead a large engineering team within a successful business that is investing millions in its site and infrusture?
Yolk Recruitment is working with a leading global manufacturer in Exeter that is looking to appoint a Maintenance Manager to take responsibility for a substantial maintenance operation, overseeing engineers, technicians and team leaders.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a financially secure business that continues to invest in its people, manufacturing facilities and equipment. You’ll have the opportunity to make a genuine impact on maintenance performance, equipment reliability and the development of a well-established engineering team.
This is what you’ll be doing
As Maintenance Manager, you’ll be responsible for the day-to-day management and development of the maintenance department, ensuring the effective delivery of planned and reactive maintenance across a large manufacturing facility.
You’ll play a key role in improving plant reliability, reducing downtime and developing a proactive maintenance culture, whilst working closely with the wider management team to support production and operational objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, manage and develop a maintenance department of engineers, technicians and team leaders.
- Oversee preventative and reactive maintenance activities across a large and varied range of manufacturing equipment.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase equipment reliability, reduce downtime and improve maintenance efficiency.
- Develop and implement maintenance strategies, identifying opportunities to improve performance and reduce operational costs.
- Manage maintenance KPIs, engineering budgets and departmental performance, ensuring resources are used effectively.
- Identify recurring equipment failures, implement root cause analysis and develop long‑term corrective actions.
- Support machinery upgrades, capital investment projects and the replacement of ageing equipment.
- Work closely with production and senior management to ensure maintenance activities support manufacturing requirements.
- Develop the engineering team’s technical capabilities through training, coaching, performance reviews and succession planning.
- Promote a strong health and safety culture, ensuring all maintenance activities comply with relevant standards and procedures.
The experience you’ll bring to the team
- Proven experience in a Maintenance Manager, Engineering Manager or senior maintenance leadership position within manufacturing or heavy industry.
- A strong technical engineering background, ideally apprentice-trained or qualified to HNC, HND or degree level in an electrical, mechanical or related engineering discipline.
- Experience managing large, multidisciplinary maintenance teams, including supervisors or team leaders.
- Strong understanding of preventative and reactive maintenance, plant reliability and continuous improvement.
- Experience managing engineering budgets, contractors, maintenance performance and improvement projects.
- A good understanding of industrial manufacturing machinery, automated equipment and electrical and mechanical systems.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to develop engineers and drive improvements across the department.
And this is what you’ll get in return
- £65,000+ basic salary
- Annual performance‑related bonus of approximately 5%.
- Private healthcare.
- Excellent pension scheme with employer contributions up to 10%.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Additional Christmas shutdown (not taken fron a/l).
- Enhanced company sick pay
- Life assurance x6 salary
- Annual salary reviews.
- Funded training and professional development.
- Subsidised canteen and free on‑site parking.
You’ll be joining an established global manufacturing business offering excellent financial stability, continued investment and the opportunity to lead a high performing engineering function.
Are you up to the challenge?
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