Head of Maintenance Engineering

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• On-site  Full-time  
• Chemical Manufacturing

About the job

Recruiting a Head of Maintenance Engineering.

About the role!

The primary purpose of the Head of Maintenance Engineering is to lead the mechanical disciplines for the site. You are responsible for the implementation and further development of maintenance standards and workflows. You will manage the introduction and implementation of maintenance standards in line with regulations, standards, and guidelines as well as professional standards.

In consideration of the current health, safety and environmental legislations and the site and company standards you must ensure that the inspection and maintenance routines are suitable and sufficient to enhance reliability, compliance, and safety.

You will line manage the Mechanical Maintenance team and any contractors associated with the team and take an active role in the leadership team of the engineering department.
 

Main Responsibilities:

Leadership, Line Management and Mechanical Engineering

• Develop competency within the mechanical department.
• Ensure continuous improvements of maintenance procedures, workflows, and standards.
• Ensure attendance of the team members at required regular trainings according training matrix.

Compliance

• Involvement in process safety and hazard analysis (HAZOP) and process safety compliance with realisation of process safety measures within area of responsibility.
• Responsible for management of change in relation to technical and engineering facilities.
• Ensure the mechanical integrity of the plant consistent with corporate, and UK legislation and standards.

Maintenance

• Logging, evaluating, and controlling of the maintenance key performance indicators (KPI)
• Take ownership of escalated maintenance issues, carrying out trouble shooting and developing technical solutions to safety, process, and reliability issues.
• Feed into maintenance and shutdown planning routine and critical tasks.
   

Site Projects

• In cooperation with the Head of Projects; Identification, definition, and management of small capital plant projects within the budget and timeline.
• Carry out engineering design and specify equipment for small projects and modifications.

About You!

You will be an experienced people manager with proven engineering experience in a chemical, pharmaceutical, or petrochemical plant on either lower or upper tier COMAH sites. Confident in managing multidisciplinary teams and medium to large maintenance and capital budgets.

• Degree in Chemical Engineering
• Excellent communication and teamworking skills
• Good organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Detailed knowledge of common regulations and standards
• Knowledge of current Health, Safety and Environment Legislation and Engineering Standards.
• A good understanding of maintenance processes and experience of plant engineering activity.
• Knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems.