Maintenance Manager: Reliability & Continuous Improvement

Pilgrim'S Europe; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Career progression

Training and development

Collaborative leadership team

Impactful improvements

Job summary

Pilgrim's Europe is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead the site engineering function at Kings Lynn. You will drive reliability, plan maintenance, and foster a proactive culture across the engineering team.

The role requires developing teams, managing budgets, and delivering continuous improvement in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. Strong leadership and SAP/PPM experience are essential.

Qualifications

• HNC qualification (or equivalent) in Mechanical, Electrical or a related Engineering discipline.
• Minimum 2 years' experience in a management or supervisory engineering role.
• Strong knowledge of planned preventative maintenance (PPM) systems.
• Experience managing maintenance budgets and engineering resources.
• Knowledge of SAP maintenance management systems.

Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching and developing a multi-skilled engineering team.
• Driving site performance through improved uptime, efficiency and asset reliability.
• Managing engineering budgets, labour costs and departmental KPIs.
• Ensuring effective preventative maintenance programmes are delivered through SAP.
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime and improve performance.
• Managing engineering projects, contractor control and statutory compliance activities.
• Maintaining audit-ready standards across safety, hygiene, quality and engineering compliance.
• Developing succession plans and ensuring team capability through training and mentoring.
• Collaborating closely with Production, Planning and Technical teams to achieve site objectives.
• Ensuring maintenance records, SOPs and risk assessments remain current and compliant.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Coaching

Continuous improvement

Asset reliability

Education

HNC in Mechanical/Electrical or related

Tools

SAP maintenance

Job description

Pilgrim's Europe is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead the site engineering function at Kings Lynn. You will drive reliability, plan maintenance, and foster a proactive culture across the engineering team.

The role requires developing teams, managing budgets, and delivering continuous improvement in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. Strong leadership and SAP/PPM experience are essential.