Maintenance Manager
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Maintenance Manager
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands
Career Level: Senior Management
Hours: Monday–Friday, days (leading a 24-hour operation)
Salary: Negotiable, plus bonus, car scheme and health insurance
The Opportunity
Are you a high-impact leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy and action? Cruise Control Recruitment has been engaged to find a Maintenance Manager to spearhead maintenance operations at a premier manufacturing facility in Birmingham, West Midlands for a global manufacturer of high-value engineered products.
How You'll Make an Impact
This is a site leadership role for someone who enjoys full accountability for planned, reactive and project maintenance in a fast-paced manufacturing environment producing high-value products — and who can motivate a large multi-skilled engineering team to deliver operational availability and continuous improvement.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will bring industrial or heavy-engineering experience, a hands-on management style, strong technical credibility and the leadership skills to develop engineers across a wide range of experience levels.
What You Will Be Doing
• Manage the maintenance team, including supervisors, across a 24-hour operation — typically 6 direct and around 30 indirect engineers.
• Oversee planning and delivery of all planned, reactive and project maintenance across the site.
• Build a culture of proactive maintenance over reactive firefighting.
• Implement, monitor and report departmental KPIs and performance indicators.
• Develop the CMMS so work is planned, logged, completed and recorded accurately.
• Lead planned shutdowns to ensure all scheduled works are completed safely and on time.
• Promote a strong Health & Safety culture across the engineering function.
• Work with the Maintenance Planner on labour allocation across shifts to maximise plant availability.
Skills & Experience
• Qualified in an electrical or mechanical discipline to HNC level or equivalent.
• Proven maintenance leadership in a fast-paced industrial or heavy-industry manufacturing environment.
• A true engineer: problem-solver, mentor and hands-on when it matters.
• Approachable leader who can drive performance from a large engineering team.
• Champion of continuous improvement for process and equipment.
• Excellent communication skills with production, engineering and senior stakeholders.
• Health & Safety qualifications (ideal).
The Package
Negotiable basic, plus bonus, car scheme and health insurance. Monday–Friday days, leading maintenance across a 24-hour manufacturing operation. Based at a premier facility in Birmingham, West Midlands.
To Apply
Cruise Control Recruitment is managing this search with the highest level of confidentiality and professional care. Demand for this role will be high and interviews will be arranged soon. If you would like to be considered, please apply today.
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