Maintenance Manager

RHL - Recruitment Holdings Limited; Fobbing; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

RHL - Recruitment Holdings Limited is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager for our Essex terminal. You will oversee day-to-day maintenance activities, plan lookaheads, and lead a team across multiple sites to ensure reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance.

The role requires chartered status or progression toward it, a degree in engineering, and NEBOSH qualification, with strong CMMS and budgeting capabilities.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering and related disciplines.
• Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartership.
• NEBOSH qualification in health and safety or equivalent.
• Experience leading Engineering/Maintenance teams on Oil/Chemical Terminals or COMAH sites.
• CMMS management and budgeting experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day maintenance staff across terminals.
• Prepare rolling weekly and monthly lookahead for works.
• Lead a multi-site maintenance team.
• Ensure equipment, safety and regulatory compliance.
• Manage OPEX budget and CAPEX planning.
• Support terminal emergency response and safety audits.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Team management

CMMS proficiency

Budgeting

Regulatory compliance

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered status / pursuing

NEBOSH qualification

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Our client is an independent bulk liquid storage provider with terminals across the UK.

An opportunity has emerged for an experienced Maintenance Manager to join the team in its Essex terminal.

*Negotiable salary

Key aspects to the role:

• Responsible for day-to-day oversight of terminals maintenance staff, planning and executing all maintenance activities associated with the safe and efficient running of the regions.
• Responsible for preparing a rolling weekly and monthly lookahead for planned/unplanned works
• Lead a team of maintenance technicians across multiple sites
• Ensure the reliability, safety, and efficiency of all equipment and facilities.
• The maintenance supervisor is responsible for scheduling work, supervising technicians and ensure methods are appropriate and risks assessed and suitably controlled
• Ensuring compliance with all legislative, industry and site regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, standards and company policy/procedures/work instructions.
• Prepare and execute an effective preventive and corrective maintenance programme fully utilising the CMMS.
• Ensure condition monitoring programmes are executed and reported to support equipment replacement plans and optimise maintenance frequency periods.
• Develop and manage a preventive maintenance schedule to minimise downtime.
• Ensure adequate internal and external resourcing to deliver maintenance activities
• Ensure timeliness of permit requests and outage requests submitted to the operations/planning team
• Minimise the backlog of unplanned and planned works and ensuring any overdue tasks are risk assessed with appropriate controls implemented to reduce risk to tolerable or ALARP.
• Develop a highly multi-skilled and motivated team through mentoring and training.
• Ensure appropriate procurement and management of spares, consumables and critical spares
• Act as Contract Owner for local maintenance contracts.
• Responsible for the regional M&R OPEX budget and contribution to the M&R CAPEX plan.

Other Accountabilities:

• Monthly reporting on Maintenance and Integrity KPIs and reporting on M&R Opex Actuals/Forecast for the region.
• STOP work authority for any activity that is deemed unsafe.
• Line management of maintenance technicians and discipline supervisors.
• Supervise and assign daily tasks to maintenance staff, ensuring efficient workflow.
• Conduct regular inspections of equipment and facilities to identify maintenance needs.
• Provide training and mentorship to maintenance personnel to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Ensure all mandatory training is completed within the maintenance team.
• Planning and management of asset inspections
• Ensure adequate support out of hours
• Any other tasks that may arise in the day-to-day functionality of this position.
• Provide technical expertise as required by the terminal and UK business.
• Provide assistance to terminal emergency response and UK as detailed in the emergency plan.
• Ensure the UK Policy and Procedure on site security is adhered to.
• Provide assistance to Terminal emergency response as detailed in the emergency plan.
• Ensure the UK policy and procedure on site security is adhered to.
• Provide input as required to various audits carried out on the Terminal.
• Provide input on method statements, risk assessments and identify potential hazards.
• Ensure that all contractors work to the site procedures and in line with the UK safety management systems.
• Ensure all amendments to terminal drawings and documentation are redlined and issued for update
• Participate in safety audits and safety observation rounds.
• All assigned training to be completed on time.

Qualifications & Experience required

Degree in Engineering discipline or equivalent.

Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartership.

NEBOSH qualification in health and safety or equivalent.

Experience leading Engineering / Maintenance teams on Oil/Chemical Terminals or COMAH sites.

Multi-disciplinary maintenance management including electrical and mechanical disciplines.

Effective analysis and utilisation of data to identify trends and inform decision making.

Management of CMMS

Budgeting/budget management

Working knowledge of COMAH, Confined Space Regs, LOLER, WAH, COSHH, CDM, DSEAR/ATEX, PUWER, PED and PSSR.