Reliability Leader: Maintenance Manager, Food Manufacturing

Next Generation Recruitment; Naas; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Next Generation Recruitment is seeking a Maintenance Manager for a leading food manufacturing site to lead engineering, maintenance, and facilities operations in a fast-paced production environment.

You will own the maintenance strategy, maximise uptime, ensure compliance, and drive continuous improvement across engineering activities while partnering with production and senior leadership to support growth.

Qualifications

• Electrical qualification with industrial manufacturing experience.
• Experience leading maintenance teams in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of preventative maintenance, reliability, and asset management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multi-skilled maintenance team.
• Drive plant reliability, efficiency, and OEE.
• Develop and implement preventative and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Manage CMMS maintenance system and spare parts inventory.
• Oversee budgets, contractor management, and commissioning projects.
• Ensure health, safety, environmental, quality and statutory compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Continuous improvement

Education

Electrical qualification

Tools

PLCs

Automation

CMMS

Job description

Next Generation Recruitment is seeking a Maintenance Manager for a leading food manufacturing site to lead engineering, maintenance, and facilities operations in a fast-paced production environment.

You will own the maintenance strategy, maximise uptime, ensure compliance, and drive continuous improvement across engineering activities while partnering with production and senior leadership to support growth.