Senior Maintenance Lead - Industrial Plant

Connected Consulting Limited; Lochyside; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Connected Consulting Limited is seeking a Lead Department Engineer to own day-to-day maintenance delivery across a large-scale industrial site. You will coordinate resources, support engineering teams, and work with operations to keep plant reliability and performance on track.

In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll bring together planned maintenance, urgent repairs, and improvements while guiding engineers and contractors to deliver high safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering maintenance experience within a heavy industrial environment.
• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering background.
• Previous experience leading engineering or maintenance teams.
• Strong understanding of planned, reactive and reliability-centred maintenance.
• Knowledge of maintenance management systems (CMMS).
• Good understanding of health, safety and environmental standards.
• Experience helping develop engineers, apprentices or technical teams.
• COMAH experience would be beneficial but isn’t essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day maintenance activities across multiple plant areas.
• Coordinate planned, reactive and breakdown maintenance priorities.
• Manage and support Department Engineers, providing leadership and direction.
• Work closely with Operations to manage plant condition, priorities and recovery activities.
• Review maintenance performance, backlog, repeat failures and preventative maintenance activities.
• Ensure maintenance work is delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
• Support shutdowns, projects, plant modifications and new equipment installations.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

CMMS knowledge

HSE awareness

Team leadership

Mechanical/Electrical

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Connected Consulting Limited is seeking a Lead Department Engineer to own day-to-day maintenance delivery across a large-scale industrial site. You will coordinate resources, support engineering teams, and work with operations to keep plant reliability and performance on track.

In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll bring together planned maintenance, urgent repairs, and improvements while guiding engineers and contractors to deliver high safety and quality standards.