Site Maintenance Manager

TipTopJob; Yeovil; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private pension

Private healthcare

Performance bonus

Job summary

TipTopJob is seeking a Site Maintenance Manager to lead a resident team of 15+ engineers at an aerospace manufacturing site in Yeovil. You will drive uptime, manage customer relations and deliver operational excellence in a challenging, safety-focused environment.

The role requires strong leadership and budget awareness, with a competitive salary, bonus and private pension/healthcare benefits on offer. Excellent stakeholder engagement is essential.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience with at least three years of supervisory responsibility in a manufacturing or maintenance environment.
• Strong customer engagement capabilities and ability to manage high expectations.
• Good understanding of budget management, capex and P&L processes.
• Solid understanding of proactive and preventive maintenance engineering processes.
• Ability to lead teams with integrity, respect, and strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Direct and motivate a resident maintenance team of engineers, ensuring client engagement tasks are handled.
• Lead safety initiatives and uphold a culture of safety and wellness.
• Manage a team of 15+ engineers to support CNC production for aerospace components.
• Build relationships with employees, customers and stakeholders with honesty and transparency.
• Develop and execute a site-specific maintenance plan aligned with proactive maintenance.

Skills

Leadership experience

Customer engagement

Budget management

P&L understanding

Emotional intelligence

Maintenance planning

Education

Technical or business-related qualification

Job description

New role for a Site Maintenance Manager, to run an established resident maintenance team of over 15 engineers at an established aerospace manufacturing site in Yeovil. As a Site Manager, youll play a pivotal role in managing customer relations by driving operational excellence and ensuring machine downtime is kept to a minimum. Available is a competitive salary, performance bonus and private pension as private healthcare.

Working Mon : Fri 38 Hours per week.

As Site Maintenance Manager You Will

• Manage resident maintenance team ensuring engineers, displaying excellent man management skills in a customer facing environment handling client engagement tasks and issues.
• Lead and inspire a team to uphold a culture of safety and wellness, ensuring compliance with safety programmes and initiatives.
• Manage a team of over 15 maintenance engineers to support CNC production of aerospace components
• Build and maintain positive relationships with employees, customers, and stakeholders by demonstrating honesty, respect, and transparency.
• Develop and execute a site:specific maintenance plan, ensuring alignment with proactive and reliability maintenance processes.
• Manage financial performance, including revenue, expenses, and profit, while driving cost:saving initiatives and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Collaborate with customers to align on expectations, anticipate needs, and conduct regular performance reviews to ensure satisfaction and priority alignment.

What You Will Bring

• Proven leadership experience, with at least three years of supervisory responsibility, ideally within a manufacturing or maintenance environment.
• A technical or business:related qualification is preferred, or equivalent experience in operations or maintenance.
• Excellent customer engagement and interaction capable of managing high expectations
• Good understanding of budget management, CAPEX or P and L
• Strong emotional intelligence and the ability to build relationships, lead teams, and motivate others with integrity and respect.
• Solid understanding of proactive machine maintenance and preventative maintenance engineering processes, including planning, scheduling, reactive maintenance, and root cause analysis.

Current or recent experience working as maintenance manager, production manager, resident engineering manager, resident maintenance manager, site engineering manager, site maintenance engineer supervisor

In Return

• Competitive salary and benefits A GBP 55 : 60K + Performance Bonus
• Private Pension 6 match and Private healthcare
• Joining a reputable engineering company working at an established site
• Managing a dedicated team of engineers