Maintenance Manager

HRconsultants.ie; Munster; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

HRconsultants.ie is assisting an Irish-owned building-materials manufacturer to appoint a Maintenance Manager for a new Waterford production facility. The role is senior, hands-on, responsible for equipment availability, reliability and safety across site utilities and production assets.

You will develop maintenance systems, manage CMMS, plan preventive maintenance, coordinate shutdowns, drive KPIs such as MTBF/MTTR, and lead contractors while ensuring minimal disruption to production.

Qualifications

• Five+ years in maintenance management in industrial manufacturing.
• Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Strong mechanical troubleshooting and fault diagnosis.
• Experience with shutdowns, contractors and service providers.
• Knowledge of maintenance-related Health and Safety requirements.
• Experience with CMMS or maintenance work-order systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage preventive and predictive maintenance programmes.
• Plan weekly, monthly and annual maintenance activities.
• Coordinate plant shutdowns and major repairs.
• Lead fault diagnosis and equipment breakdown responses.
• Promote safety and maintain permits/work procedures.
• Maintain equipment history and technical documentation.
• Monitor downtime and report maintenance KPIs.
• Manage spare parts inventory and supplier lead times.

Skills

Maintenance management

Preventive maintenance

Troubleshooting

Shutdown planning

Contractor management

Health and safety

SCADA/HMI knowledge

Education

Mechanical/Electrical/Engineering qualification

Tools

CMMS

Work-order systems

Job description

Employment type: Permanent, full-time

Working arrangement: Site-based

Reports to: Operations Manager

The Opportunity

Our client is an ambitious Irish-owned building-materials manufacturer developing a modern production facility at Waterford.

They are seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to take responsibility for the availability, reliability and safe condition of the site’s production equipment, utilities and wider infrastructure.

This is a senior, hands‑on opportunity to establish and develop the site’s maintenance systems, preventive‑maintenance programme, contractor arrangements, spare‑parts controls and reliability reporting. The successful candidate will work closely with Operations and Production to maximise plant availability while ensuring that all maintenance activities are completed safely and with minimal disruption to production.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage preventive and predictive maintenance programmes.
• Plan weekly, monthly and annual maintenance activities.
• Coordinate plant shutdowns, major repairs and maintenance projects.
• Lead the response to equipment breakdowns and support technical fault diagnosis.
• Prioritise maintenance requirements in conjunction with Operations and Production.
• Establish and improve CMMS and work-order management processes.
• Maintain equipment history, inspection records and technical documentation.
• Monitor downtime and complete root-cause analysis on recurring failures.
• Introduce and report maintenance KPIs, including MTBF, MTTR and planned‑maintenance completion.
• Manage maintenance contractors and specialist service providers.
• Coordinate contractor access, inductions, permits and safe systems of work.
• Maintain LOTOTO, confined-space, hot-work and permit-to-work procedures.
• Coordinate statutory equipment inspections and certifications.
• Manage critical spare parts, consumables, inventory levels and reorder points.
• Liaise with suppliers regarding technical support, spare parts and lead times.
• Support maintenance-budget control and capital-improvement projects.
• Promote a strong safety culture across all maintenance activities.
• Communicate maintenance priorities, performance and actions to operational teams.

Candidate Requirements

• Minimum of five years’ experience in a maintenance manager, engineering manager, maintenance supervisor, planner or senior maintenance‑engineering position.
• Experience gained within an industrial manufacturing, quarrying, building-products or continuous-process environment.
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Practical mechanical troubleshooting and fault-diagnosis capability.
• Experience maintaining production equipment, utilities, compressors, conveyors or comparable industrial assets.
• Experience managing shutdowns, contractors and specialist service providers.
• Strong understanding of maintenance‑related Health and Safety requirements.
• Knowledge of LOTOTO, permit-to-work and safe systems of work.
• Experience using a CMMS or structured work-order management system.
• Ability to monitor equipment performance and use maintenance KPIs to drive improvements.
• Strong planning, prioritisation and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Relevant mechanical, electrical or engineering qualification.
• Experience within plasterboard, cement, concrete, quarrying, mining or building-products manufacturing.
• Previous involvement in the commissioning, start‑up or ramp‑up of a new production facility.
• Experience with SCADA or HMI systems.
• Health and Safety qualification.
• Machinery‑safety training, such as PILZ or equivalent.
• Experience managing spare‑parts inventory and maintenance budgets.

What the Role Offers

• Salary of €80,000–€90,000 depending on experience.
• Opportunity to shape the maintenance function within a new manufacturing facility.
• Broad responsibility across maintenance, reliability, safety, contractors and site assets.
• Significant involvement in developing the site’s long‑term engineering and maintenance strategy.