Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

Bakkavor Boston

Shift – Monday – Friday 08:30 – 17:00

Up to £60,000 per annum, based on experience.

Benefits include: Life Assurance (2.5x salary), 10% Bonus scheme, Staff Shop, Stakeholder Pension Scheme, MyBargains Discount Platform, Personal Accident Insurance, Free Independent Mortgage Advice, Employee Assistance Programme, a range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, dental and hospital cash plans), free parking and more!

Our Meals site in Boston (Old Leake) is looking to recruit a Production Manager, reporting into the Operations Manager. The site employs over 700 people and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals for a dedicated customer. It is part of the Bakkavor Meals sector which has eight factories in the UK.

The Role

We have a fantastic opening for a Maintenance Manager to join our expanding team and site. You’ll report into the Engineering Manager and have responsibility for eight direct reports across a wider team for both days & nights shifts.

The Maintenance Manager will provide support to the business as required, to ensure efficient use of all available resources. Provide a point of contact for all other departments to manage assets to optimise production levels. You will manage planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance to prevent issues happening. Working with other teams, you will contribute or lead technical performance reviews and continuous improvement activities.
 

Job Responsibilities

• Manage the development of asset strategies to meet organisational goals. 
• Collate, process, and evaluate data and information for assets. For example, how to collect data on condition assessment, age profiles, asset failures, reviewing the performance of assets, loss of service, failure of legal compliance, and asset failure/breakage. 
• Identify intervention and mitigation options for the failure of assets. For example, preventative/reactive maintenance, new build, refurbishment, replacement, change in operation, rapid response. 
• Identify and prioritise the asset needs using whole life cost, cost-benefit analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, multi-criteria decision making and options comparisons. 
• Develop business cases to address investment needs and/or to inform asset management decision making. 
• Analyse the root cause of asset failure, impact upon service and develop action plan to prevent reoccurrence.
• Develop and maintain an effective and accurate maintenance cost plan, regularly provide updates to stakeholders, value engineer and provide expenditure forecasts. 
• Develop impact and contingency plans for asset and/or service failure in consultation with subject matter experts. 
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of asset management systems. 
• Champion the asset management approach, including implementation of the resource and competence strategy, within the organisation to support clear and consistent decision making. 
• Undertake technical performance reviews in collaboration with the organisation’s functions and stakeholders. 
• Management of day-to-day HR activities for direct reports.
• Represents Engineering Manager when required.

Qualifications/Skills/Knowledge 

• Engineering apprenticeship (C&G / EAL NVQ Level 3 / 4 or OAL FDEM Diploma). 
• IOSH Managing Safely desirable (training available)

• Application of SHE legislation and procedures. 
• Identify the organisation’s context and constraints that affect asset management.
• Develop and classify asset life-cycle plans including performance monitoring, business cases and activities.
• Apply continuous improvement techniques and quantify asset, asset system and asset management activity-related risks; identify mitigation options. 
• CMMS knowledge or experience
• Coach reliability techniques & condition-based monitoring (CBM).

• Planning works and writing reports. 
• Mechanical principles, F&D assets, welding, machining, turning, hydraulic, pneumatic & thermodynamics systems and / or, electrical principals, safety & control circuits, motors, motor control circuits, motion control, encoders, PLCs, sensors. 
• Risk management and its application to asset management: risk assessment, quantification, mitigation, and impact. 
• Data analysis and interpretation techniques; data presentation techniques (charts, diagrams, and tables). 

About us:

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

Proud to be Bakkavor.

We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.

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