Engineering & Maintenance Manager in Rotherham

Elevation Recruitment Group are working with a large, well established national business operating a 24/7 heavy process site in Rotherham, who are looking to appoint a mechanically biased Engineering and Maintenance Manager to take full ownership of engineering, maintenance and plant performance on site.

This is a heavily mechanical operation, built around conveyors, rotating equipment, hydraulics and high throughput process plant that runs around the clock. The Engineering and Maintenance Manager leads a 24/7 team of mechanical and electrical engineers, with a Maintenance Planner, a Maintenance Scheduler and a Senior Maintenance Team Leader reporting directly in. Uptime is measured against contractual targets, so the role carries real accountability and links engineering performance directly to how the site performs commercially.

Beyond the day to day, the brief is about moving the site forward. You’ll drive reliability and continuous improvement, shape asset lifecycle planning and CAPEX, and work closely with the operational management team to make sure engineering priorities line up with what the business needs.

Benefits:

• Company pension scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Investment in training and professional development
• Large national business with genuine progression routes

Working Hours: Days based, Monday to Friday, leading a 24/7 shift based engineering team

Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Duties of the Engineering and Maintenance Manager will include:

• Leading and developing a team of mechanical and electrical engineers across a 24/7 shift pattern
• Delivering safe, effective planned and reactive maintenance across heavy mechanical plant in line with uptime targets
• Driving reliability and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime and breakdowns
• Managing the site CMMS and wider engineering maintenance systems
• Partnering with operational managers to prioritise maintenance activity and own issues through to resolution
• Overseeing engineering stores, critical spares and stock control
• Supporting asset lifecycle planning, budgeting, CAPEX and long term investment projects
• Ensuring all engineering activity complies with health, safety and environmental requirements

Requirements of the Engineering and Maintenance Manager:

• Time served mechanical engineer, with a hands on understanding of heavy plant, rotating equipment and hydraulics
• HNC or HND in Mechanical Engineering or similar
• Previous experience as an Engineering Manager or Maintenance Manager
• Proven track record of improving reliability and delivering continuous improvement in a 24/7 operation
• Working knowledge of a CMMS system
• Good understanding of health, safety and environmental compliance
• Strong communicator, comfortable working at all levels internally and externally
• Background in heavy process, materials handling, steel, aggregates or similar continuous plant environments

This role is commutable from:
Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Worksop, Wakefield, Chesterfield, Mexborough, Dinnington

Suited candidates previously hold roles such as:
Engineering Manager, Maintenance Manager, Mechanical Maintenance Manager, Mechanical Engineering Manager, Site Engineering Manager, Senior Maintenance Team Leader, Engineering Shift Manager, Reliability Manager, Plant Engineer, Asset Manager