Senior Maintenance Leader: Reliability & Safety

ADM; Stafford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

ADM is seeking a shopfloor-focused maintenance leader to take day-to-day ownership of maintenance activities and drive safety, reliability and performance across the site. You will oversee the maintenance plan, respond to breakdowns, and deputise for the Engineering Manager when needed.

You will lead a hands-on team, coordinate daily operations, and work with Production, Quality, HSE and Planning to prioritise maintenance and improvements while ensuring compliance with HACCP, BRCGS and GMP

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading or supervising a maintenance/engineering team in manufacturing.
• Hands-on mechanical and electrical fault finding under pressure.
• Structured approach to problem solving and root cause analysis.
• Experience with planned and preventive maintenance systems (CMMS).
• Calm, decisive under breakdown conditions with clear communication.
• Strong stakeholder management across site functions.
• Leadership focused on coaching, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Food manufacturing standards: HACCP, BRCGS, GMP.
• Experience with packaging equipment, process plant and utilities.
• Contractor management and safe systems of work.
• Health & Safety qualifications: IOSH, NEBOSH.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the maintenance team daily, ensuring safe, planned work.
• Own the daily/weekly maintenance plan balancing planned/reactive work.
• Provide hands-on technical support to troubleshoot and restore plant.
• Drive reliability improvements with root-cause analysis and fixes.
• Ensure compliance with HSE, food safety and quality standards.
• Monitor downtime, PM compliance and repeat failures; drive actions.
• Collaborate with Production, Quality, HSE and Planning to align priorities.
• Manage contractors and ensure safe, compliant delivery of work.
• Support engineering projects and small capital improvements.
• Maintain CMMS records and manage spares/assets.
• Promote proactive maintenance culture across the site.

Skills

Leadership

Team supervision

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Continuous improvement

Coaching

Education

IOSH

NEBOSH

Tools

CMMS

Job description

ADM is seeking a shopfloor-focused maintenance leader to take day-to-day ownership of maintenance activities and drive safety, reliability and performance across the site. You will oversee the maintenance plan, respond to breakdowns, and deputise for the Engineering Manager when needed.

You will lead a hands-on team, coordinate daily operations, and work with Production, Quality, HSE and Planning to prioritise maintenance and improvements while ensuring compliance with HACCP, BRCGS and GMP