Engineering and Maintenance Manager in Speke - CV-Library

Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Speke, Liverpool

Monday to Thursday, 07:30 - 16:15 (Friday 07:30 - 12:00)

£63,000

Automotive Experience Advantageous

As the Maintenance Manager, you will have the opportunity to create and develop a site maintenance function, establishing policies and procedures to ensure best practice whilst mentoring and leading the department. Providing both a reactive and pro-active, multi skilled maintenance service on all operational equipment, you will take responsibility for planned service maintenance schedules and prepare the annual maintenance budget and forecasts. In addition to this, you will need sufficient automotive or plastics experience.

Main Objectives:

Direct line management, coaching and training of Manufacturing Engineering & Maintenance team
Accountability for Project management of all aspects of M.E projects to support site development and launch
Plan the workload for specific major projects across production shutdown periods
Lead cross functional on time, on cost product launches
Preparation of RFQ's, contract review and risk management
Support continuous improvement activities
Liaise with outside contractors if required
Checking that agreed work by staff or contractors has been completed to a satisfactory standard and following up on any deficiencies.
Successful co-ordination of running changes
Manage plant interface in support of Program targets and common faults and drive corrective actions based on impact in terms of frequency and total time stoppages.Skills & Experience:

Candidates must be time-served multi-skilled Engineer, and preferably certified to HND / degree level.
Proven experience of Engineering, preferably within a high volume, automotive manufacturing environment.
Competent in Microsoft Office
Excellent organisational and communicational skills as well as a strong sense of urgency and an ability to work under pressure.
A Confident decision maker and proactive problem solver
Ability to work as an individual or as part of a team.
Experienced in managing and delivering significant CAPEX projects.
Experienced in working in a highly pressured and demand focused organisation.
Able to liaise professionally at ALL levels within and outside the Company
Knowledge of customer base, manufacturing processes and capabilities, company products, technology and efficiency
Knowledge of applicable regulatory requirements - Health & Safety, LOTO, PUWER
3 years of experience working within a JIT / Lean manufacturing environment
Working knowledge of MES, DC tooling, EOL electrical test and Vision systems is advantageousIn return for your commitment my client offers a stable and secure career. If you feel this is of interest, please send your CV to directly to Cameron Stevens or call for a confidential discussion on (phone number removed)