Maintenance Lead

Yolk Recruitment; Neath; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Annual bonus up to 7%

EV salary sacrifice scheme

Job summary

Yolk Recruitment is seeking a Maintenance Lead for a growing manufacturing operation in the UK. The role focuses on taking ownership of the maintenance function and delivering a proactive, data-driven strategy to improve reliability.

You will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team, develop PPM schedules, optimise CMMS usage, and drive improvements through meaningful KPIs and coaching of technicians. A strong electrical maintenance background is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong electrical engineering background in manufacturing.
• Experience leading maintenance engineers or technicians.
• Knowledge of both PPM and preventative maintenance techniques.
• Experience with CMMS systems and data usage.
• Ability to analyze KPI data (MTBF/MTTR) and downtime to drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day maintenance function and lead a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Develop site preventive maintenance strategy and PPM schedules.
• Improve CMMS structure and data usage for better insights.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs including MTBF, MTTR, downtime and recurring issues.
• Analyze maintenance and production data to identify reliability improvements.
• Move the department toward a proactive maintenance approach.
• Develop technicians through structured training and coaching.
• Support NPI and new equipment installations with maintenance input.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations for continuous improvement.
• Reduce reactive maintenance by building internal capability.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Team leadership

PPM knowledge

CMMS experience

Reliability KPIs

Data-driven maintenance

Problem solving

Engineer development

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Maintenance Lead

£50,000 + up to 7% bonus & Private Medical Insurance

Yolk Recruitment is partnering with a growing and highly innovative manufacturing business to recruit a Maintenance Lead. This is a newly focused position designed to give maintenance the dedicated leadership, structure and direction it needs as the site continues to develop.

This isn't an opportunity to inherit a failing maintenance department. There's an established team, maintenance schedules are in place and a significant amount of engineering and production data is already being collected.

You’ll be given the autonomy to review how the maintenance team currently operates, develop the PPM strategy, introduce meaningful KPIs, improve the use of CMMS and start using breakdown, downtime and reliability data to drive improvements.

This could suit an established Maintenance Manager, but equally a strong Maintenance Supervisor or Engineering Team Leader who’s already operating at this level and is ready to take ownership of their first maintenance department.

What you’ll be doing

• Taking ownership of the day-to-day maintenance function and leading a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Reviewing and developing the site’s preventative maintenance strategy and PPM schedules.
• Improving the structure and utilisation of the CMMS.
• Introducing and monitoring meaningful maintenance KPIs including MTBF, MTTR, downtime and recurring breakdowns.
• Analysing existing maintenance, breakdown and production data to identify reliability and improvement opportunities.
• Moving the department towards a more proactive and preventative maintenance approach.
• Developing technicians through structured training, coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Improving maintenance planning and the allocation of engineering resource.
• Identifying recurring equipment problems and implementing permanent engineering solutions.
• Working closely with the wider engineering and operations teams on continuous improvement.
• Ensuring maintenance is involved earlier in NPI, new equipment installations and engineering projects.
• Helping reduce reliance on reactive engineering support by developing capability within the maintenance team.

The experience you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone with a strong electrical maintenance background who can demonstrate that they’ve improved the way a maintenance department operates.

You’ll ideally have:

• A strong electrical engineering background, ideally within manufacturing.
• Previous experience leading, supervising or managing Maintenance Engineers or Technicians.
• A good understanding of PPM and preventative maintenance techniques.
• Experience working with or developing a CMMS.
• An understanding of maintenance and reliability KPIs including MTBF and MTTR.
• Experience analysing breakdown and downtime information to identify recurring problems.
• A data-driven and analytical approach to maintenance.
• Evidence of implementing maintenance or reliability improvements.
• The confidence to challenge existing processes and introduce better ways of working.
• The ability to develop and train engineers rather than simply manage them.

If you’re currently a Maintenance Supervisor, Engineering Supervisor or Engineering Team Leader who’s been responsible for PPMs, CMMS, maintenance KPIs, breakdown analysis and developing engineers, this could be the opportunity to take that next step.

What you’ll receive

• £50,000 - £53,000 salary
• Up to 7% performance-related bonus
• Private medical insurance
• EV salary sacrifice scheme

If you’re an electrically biased maintenance leader who enjoys looking at why equipment keeps failing rather than simply getting it running again, this is a role where you’ll be given the opportunity to make a real impact.

Are you up to the challenge?

Are you what we’re looking for?

*Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.