Maintenance Manager

Futures are working with a well-known and long-established manufacturing organisation to recruit an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead engineering operations. This is a hands-on leadership role, ideal for a Maintenance Manager or Senior Engineer ready to take ownership of a small but skilled engineering team while driving improvements across an ageing manufacturing facility.

As Maintenance Manager, you will be the technical authority on site — the go-to person for all mechanical and electrical matters. You will manage a small team of engineers, balancing hands-on fault finding with strategic and people leadership responsibilities.

The site currently operates in a largely reactive maintenance environment, with older machinery and no formal PPM structure in place. A key part of the role will be introducing new maintenance strategies, improving reliability, and gradually moving the operation towards a more planned and proactive approach.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead, manage, and develop a team of multi-skilled engineers
Act as the technical escalation point for complex mechanical and electrical issues
Maintain and repair mechanical and hydraulic presses and other legacy manufacturing equipment
Balance hands-on maintenance work with planning, scheduling, and team management
Introduce and implement PPM strategies and improve maintenance processes
Work closely with production to minimise downtime and improve asset reliability
Use the site’s ERP system for maintenance logging, planning, and reporting
Support continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and maintenance
The ideal candidate:

Proven experience in a Maintenance Manager / Engineering Manager role within manufacturing
Strong mechanical and electrical background
Hands-on experience working with mechanical and hydraulic presses
Comfortable working in environments with older machinery and reactive maintenance
Confident people manager with experience leading engineering teams
Computer literate, with experience using ERP or CMMS systems
Exposure to Continuous Improvement (CI) methodologies would be advantageous
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