Maintenance Manager

GKN Aerospace; West of England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

25 days holiday

Income protection

Cycle To Work

Employee Assistance Programme

Virtual GP Clinic

Job summary

GKN Aerospace at Filton is seeking a skilled Maintenance Manager to lead 24/7 maintenance across CNC machines and process equipment, driving TPM and continual improvement. You’ll manage a multi‑disciplinary team, balance budgets, and ensure safety and compliance across operations.

The role requires a technical degree or apprenticeship with 10+ years’ experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and a proven track record in reliability‑driven maintenance.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience across multi‑discipline teams.
• Technical degree or apprenticeship with 10+ years of experience.
• Proven track record of leadership.
• Strong analytical, IT and communication skills.
• Experience solving problems with root‑cause countermeasures.
• Ability to lead projects across functions.
• Engineering development and/or new maintenance methods.
• Manufacturing maintenance experience.
• Experience using CMMS systems.
• Reliability‑driven maintenance approach.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team delivering 24/7 maintenance across CNC machines and process equipment.
• Drive on‑time PPMs while supporting operational requirements.
• Improve asset uptime through tactical and strategic activities.
• Drive HSE culture and ensure safety and compliance.
• Support quality and manufacturing engineering for right‑first‑time components.
• Collect and analyse data to support continuous improvement.
• Manage the maintenance budget to maximise value.
• Manage contractors and ensure service delivery as agreed.
• Plan and oversee maintenance and overhauls.
• Drive TPM initiatives and asset management/reliability activities.

Skills

Leadership experience

Technical degree/apprenticeship

Proven leadership

Analytical thinking

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Maintenance methods

Manufacturing maintenance

CMMS experience

Reliability maintenance

Education

Technical degree or apprenticeship

Tools

CMMS software

Job description

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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 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

At our GKN Filton site, we specialise in the design and manufacture of large complex structural wing assemblies, detailed metallic components and wing systems for a combination of both civil and military aircraft.

We're seeking a skilled and experienced Maintenance Manager to join us on a permanent basis.

This role will see you working across a number of manufacturing capabilities at our Filton site, leading our reactive and pre planned maintenance initiatives.

As our maintenance teams run a 24/7 operation you will need to have a flexible approach to ensuring you are visible to night shift teams, with regular meeting with them early in their shifts.

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage a team delivering 24/7 maintenance across CNC machines and process equipment including driving daily management process (Tier boards).
• Ensure PPM’s are completed on time while supporting with operational requirements.
• Drive asset uptime and reliability through tactical and strategic activities while improving key KPI’s (Uptime, MTTR, MTBF & availability).
• Drive HSE culture and ensure all safety and compliance requirements are met.
• Support quality and manufacturing engineering in delivering right first time components.
• Collect and analyse data to support continuous improvement activities.
• Manage financial budget to maximise value.
• Manage contractors and ensure services are delivered in line with expectations.
• Planning and management of maintenance and overhauls.
• Drive TPM.
• Support/Lead Asset Management & Reliability Team.

What You'll Bring

• Leadership experience of multi disciplined teams.
• Technical degree or apprenticeship with 10+ yrs of experience.
• Proven track record of leadership.
• Strong analytical, IT and communication skills.
• History of driving problem solving with effective implementation of root cause countermeasures.
• Ability to work across functions driving projects and improvements.
• History of engineering development and/or implementation of new methods of maintenance.
• Manufacturing maintenance experience.
• Experience of using CMMS systems.
• Reliability driven maintenance.

What We’ll Offer

Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary and remuneration package dependent on experience.
• Company bonus based on personal and business performance.
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = 1.5x employee contributions (max 12%).
• Life Assurance 8 x salary.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
• Income protection.
• Cycle To Work Scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family.
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment.

As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where your career journey may take you!

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.