Maintenance Manager

Orion Group; Inverness; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A manufacturing client in Inverness is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to oversee the maintenance operations, ensuring safety and compliance. You will lead a team, manage budgets, and implement continuous improvements. The ideal candidate is a time-served engineer with a BS degree in an engineering discipline and industrial experience. This role offers an opportunity to drive asset reliability in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Required: Time served engineer with electrical/mechanical/electronic discipline.
• Industrial experience within manufacturing and supply chain.
• Experience in managing maintenance profit and loss.

Responsibilities

• Ensure maintenance activities are compliant with health and safety regulations.
• Lead and develop a high performing maintenance team.
• Manage and improve site operational effectiveness.

Skills

Time served engineer

Safety conscious

Self-assured and direct

Leadership

Project management

Education

BS degree in engineering or equivalent experience

Job description

Overview

On behalf of our manufacturing client, we are seeking a Maintenance Manager to join their team at the Inverness site. Reporting directly to the General Manager, the Maintenance Manager will be responsible for ensuring that all processes, systems, equipment, and personnel are effectively maintained and developed. The role focuses on driving asset improvement and reliability while ensuring full compliance with safety and legal standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring maintenance and/or engineering activities are carried out in a safe manner in compliance with all relevant company health and safety legislation
• Leading a team to ensure all work is planned, scheduled, and completed in agreed timescales
• Continually reviewing and improving site operational effectiveness, project delivery, mean time between failure and downtime reduction
• Manage, coach, and develop a high performing Maintenance team that meets agreed objectives to deliver best practice results, added value, and continuous improvements
• Management and implementation of continuous improvement strategies and modern manufacturing principals
• Develop, implement, and manage Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) for each area of responsibility and drive the principles of continuous improvement
• Ensure that designated buildings, plant, and facilities are fit for purpose and to provide proactive support/solutions when required
• Input and hold responsibility for maintenance budgets
• Attend various meetings and action/communicate instructions
• Produce written reports and make presentations
• Support maintenance team on the use of contractors on site to ensure they meet legal and company requirements

Qualifications/Experience (Essential)

• Time served engineer with an electrical/mechanical/electronic discipline
• BS degree (or Equivalent) in engineering discipline or suitable time served experience at Maintenance Manager level
• Industrial experience within manufacturing, engineering and procurement/supply chain
• Experience managing Profit and loss responsibilities for maintenance
• Self-assured and direct with the skills to challenge and influence at all levels of the business
• Safety conscious

Desirable

• Membership of (or working towards) an appropriate professional body such as the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (nice to have)
• High voltage experience
• PLC knowledge
• Hydraulics knowledge
• Pneumatics knowledge
• Pressure vessels
• Thermal oil

Our role in supportingdiversityandinclusion

As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment