Plant Maintenance & Asset Integrity Lead

Pareto Recruitment Ltd; Harlow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Pareto Recruitment Ltd is recruiting a Maintenance Manager for a chemical manufacturing site in Harlow. You will lead a 14-person maintenance team, drive asset integrity, scheduling, and continual improvement to maximise plant reliability.

You will ensure compliance with engineering standards, legal requirements and cost controls while collaborating with procurement to optimise spare parts and budgets; SAP CMMS will be central to planning and execution.

Qualifications

• Formal engineering qualification, ideally degree educated.
• A minimum of 3 years' experience leading engineering maintenance teams within a manufacturing or process environment.
• Strong maintenance planning and scheduling experience using a CMMS system, ideally SAP.
• Proven leadership skills with experience managing multidisciplinary maintenance teams.
• Commercial awareness and experience managing maintenance budgets and external contractors.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the maintenance team to meet safety, quality, reliability and cost objectives.
• Ensure engineering activities comply with company, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Promote Health, Safety and Environmental standards across the department.
• Develop asset integrity and reliability strategies to maximise plant performance.
• Utilise SAP CMMS to plan, schedule and control maintenance activity.
• Manage engineering KPIs, focusing on safety-critical equipment and reliability.
• Coordinate and manage internal and external maintenance resources.
• Lead site shutdowns and major maintenance planning.
• Manage engineering stores, inventory and spare parts.
• Collaborate with procurement to control costs.
• Drive continuous improvement across maintenance and engineering operations.
• Identify training and development needs to strengthen team capability.

Skills

Leadership

CMMS (SAP)

Maintenance planning

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

SAP CMMS

SAP

Job description

Pareto Recruitment Ltd is recruiting a Maintenance Manager for a chemical manufacturing site in Harlow. You will lead a 14-person maintenance team, drive asset integrity, scheduling, and continual improvement to maximise plant reliability.

You will ensure compliance with engineering standards, legal requirements and cost controls while collaborating with procurement to optimise spare parts and budgets; SAP CMMS will be central to planning and execution.