Maintenance Manager in Neath

Yolk Recruitment; Neath; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing organisation in Neath is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead their maintenance function, ensuring asset reliability and compliance. This role offers a salary of up to £65,000 and the chance to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in asset maintenance and a proven ability to lead engineering teams effectively.

Benefits

Salary of up to £65,000

Chance to lead a skilled team

Opportunities for impact and progression

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading and developing multi-skilled engineering teams.
• Strong background in asset maintenance, predictive maintenance, and reliability programmes.
• Experience in managing contractors, SLAs, and service agreements.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, ensuring your team is fully skilled and engaged.
• Manage and develop apprentices, creating succession plans.
• Deliver optimised planned, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies.
• Ensure 100% compliance with safety, environmental, and engineering regulations.

Skills

Leadership of multi-skilled engineering teams

Asset maintenance

Predictive maintenance

Health & Safety compliance

Job description

Maintenance Manager
Upto 65,000

Days - Full Time

Yolk Recruitment is proud to be supporting a leading manufacturing organisation in their search for an Maintenance Manager to join their site leadership team.

As a key part of the operations structure, this role offers the opportunity to take full ownership of the site's Maintenance function - leading a skilled team, ensuring asset reliability, and driving compliance and performance across the board. With recent investment and a strong focus on continuous improvement, this is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious engineering leader to make their mark.

Position Overview:

As the Maintenance Manager, you will be ensuring operational reliability, safety compliance, cost control, and site efficiency. You'll lead, motivate, and develop a multi-skilled engineering team while managing contractors and projects to deliver real improvements to site performance.

This is what you'll be doing:

• Provide leadership, ensuring your team is fully skilled, engaged, and aligned across shifts.
• Manage and develop apprentices, creating succession plans and supporting training needs.
• Deliver optimised planned, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies.
• Maintain PPM compliance for all assets and drive root cause analysis on breakdowns.
• Ensure 100% compliance with safety, environmental, and engineering regulations.
• Foster a proactive culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

The experience you'll bring to the team:

• Proven track record leading and developing multi-skilled engineering teams.
• Strong background in asset maintenance, predictive maintenance, and reliability programmes.
• Experience in managing contractors, SLAs, and service agreements.
• A people-focused leader who lives and breathes Health & Safety, compliance, and quality.

And this is what you'll get in return:

• A salary of up to 65,000
• The chance to lead a skilled team in a forward-thinking, investment-backed business
• A role with real scope for impact and progression

Are you up to the challenge?

Are you what we're looking for? Please get in touch today with engineering specialist recruiter, Andy Jones.

Please apply with a CV - and feel free to include a cover letter outlining why you're the perfect fit. We also run a referral scheme, so if you know somebody who would be ideal, get in touch.