Maintenance Leader — Elevate Reliability & Team Performance

The Sterling Choice; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Sterling Choice is seeking a maintenance-focused leader for a well-established food manufacturer in the UK, reporting to the Engineering Manager. You will take ownership of the maintenance team and drive reliability, OEE and continuous improvement across the site.

The role emphasises people development, coaching engineers, and delivering meaningful improvements in maintenance standards and processes. This is a high-impact leadership position with strong collaboration with Production.

Qualifications

• Food manufacturing experience
• Strong understanding of planned and preventative maintenance
• Experience improving reliability, OEE and equipment performance
• Ability to lead, coach and develop an engineering team
• Proactive, improvement-focused mindset

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and motivate the maintenance team
• Coach engineers and create clear development plans
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement
• Develop and implement planned and preventative maintenance strategies
• Improve equipment reliability and OEE
• Use maintenance and downtime data to identify improvement opportunities
• Reduce repeat failures and enhance maintenance effectiveness
• Collaborate with Production to improve equipment performance
• Support the site's significant investment programme
• Improve maintenance standards, systems and processes

Job description

The Sterling Choice is seeking a maintenance-focused leader for a well-established food manufacturer in the UK, reporting to the Engineering Manager. You will take ownership of the maintenance team and drive reliability, OEE and continuous improvement across the site.

The role emphasises people development, coaching engineers, and delivering meaningful improvements in maintenance standards and processes. This is a high-impact leadership position with strong collaboration with Production.