Facilities & Maintenance Manager

GKN Aerospace; East Cowes; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company in East Cowes seeks a Facilities & Maintenance Manager to lead the F&M Team. This role involves ensuring safety compliance, managing asset maintenance, and deploying global strategies to enhance operational efficiency. Candidates must have significant previous maintenance management experience, a solid understanding of Total Productive Maintenance, and strong leadership skills. Join a company committed to innovation and sustainability.

Qualifications

• Significant previous maintenance management experience in manufacturing or service.
• Thorough understanding of Total Productive Maintenance.
• Demonstrable experience of successful people leadership and development.
• Ability to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with Health, Safety and Environmental policies.
• Manage a multi-disciplined team for asset maintenance.
• Deploy Global Total Productive Maintenance Program.
• Implement Facilities & Maintenance people strategy.
• Achieve expected maturity for the function.
• Accountable for implementing standards and KPIs.
• Define machinery & equipment standards.
• Deliver Facilities & Maintenance savings.
• Develop technical solutions for complex problems.
• Lead engineering teams for metrics-driven results.
• Integrate with broader GKN technology teams.

Skills

Maintenance management experience

Total Productive Maintenance philosophy

People leadership

Advanced communication skills

Job description

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS - FRIDAY 21ST NOVEMBER 2025

A brand new career opportuity has been created here in our thriving East Cowes Centre of Excellence for a suitably skilled and experienced Facilities & Maintenance Manager to head up our F&M Team.

Reporting into the site Manufacturing Engineering Director, the successful candidate will be accountable for building the capability of both sites to ensure assets never impact the operations schedule. This will be achieved by deploying the One Aerospace strategy, including standardisation, training, coaching and implementing best practices.

They will promote GKN’s technical capability globally to the internal technical community, as well as leading and steering the development of the Industrial strategy, following a robust framework to deploy the appropriate technologies to our multi-site operational needs, responding to current and future market changes.

This role also manages the Estates (including Security) and Tooling MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) functions.

Job Responsibilities

• Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance to the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
• Manage a multi-disciplined team to plan and perform asset maintenance to deliver incremental improvements in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• In collaboration with Continuous Improvement Function partners, accountable for deploying the Global Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Program.
• Implementation of the short and long term Facilities & Maintenance people strategy including competence program, talent and skills acquisition, retention and development.
• Achieve the expected maturity for the function, plan and deliver the transformation to achieve required levels of maturity.
• Accountable for implementing the standards (one GKNA process) and KPIs for the Facilities & Maintenance function. Implement a layered process audit system to provide governance for the Facilities and Maintenance standards.
• In collaboration with Regional Head of ME and Global Head of Advanced ME contribute to the definition of machinery & equipment standards.
• Deliver Facilities & Maintenance savings in line with year on year conversion cost targets.
• Develop technical solutions to complex problems, delivering a manufacturing industrialisation system that fulfils all stakeholder requirements including Safety, Quality, Productivity, Business case, Intellectual Property and Export Control Identify process and technological gaps, which will drive technology development initiatives (pull) into the development of operational excellence.
• Lead engineering teams to deliver measurable, metrics driven results in line with Operational and Program goals.
• Integrate with the broader GKN technology teams through the Global Technology Centres (GTCs) to ensure that value-added Technology and Industrialisation solutions compliment operational deliverables

Job Qualifications

Suitable candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Significant previous maintenance management experience gained within either a manufacturing or service environment;
• Thorough understanding of the Total Productive Maintenance philosophy;
• Demonstrable experience of successful people leadership and development;
• Advanced communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We arethe place where human dreams, plus humanendeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.