Maintenance Lead

Overview

In this role you lead engineering and reliability activities in a regulated OTC Health environment, driving equipment reliability with zero downtime. You will partner with Cell Leads, Process Leads, Quality, Validation and Engineering to improve CAPEX, safety, quality and productivity. This hands-on, leadership-focused position emphasizes coaching and upskilling the team while solving complex reliability problems. Nottingham on-site, permanent role with a clear impact on plant performance and compliance.

Pay / Benefits

• parental benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• life insurance for all employees
• global share plans
• short-term incentives
• pay for performance philosophy

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the Breakdowns Elimination (BDE) system and perform root-cause analyses for major losses
• Drive sustainable countermeasures using structured problem-solving tools
• Develop and maintain equipment reliability strategies to reduce unplanned downtime
• Analyze failure data and loss trees to prioritise improvements
• Maintain technical standards and critical spares strategies
• Lead maintenance planning and scheduling for the cell
• Create and maintain preventive maintenance plans aligned to criticality
• Ensure weekly maintenance schedules and material readiness, track PM compliance
• Champion the Zero Loss journey and translate loss intelligence into action
• Provide engineering input to CAPEX and productivity projects
• Support URS development, design reviews, FAT/SAT, and commissioning
• Ensure maintainability and reliability in new equipment
• Train and coach team members in CIL, defect handling and basic condition monitoring
• Build technical capability for operator ownership of equipment
• Ensure compliance with GMP, EHS and engineering standards; manage risk assessments and permit-to-work

Key requirements

• Qualified engineer or equivalent technical experience
• Strong background in maintenance planning, scheduling and equipment reliability
• Experience in a regulated environment (GMP/GxP desirable)
• Knowledge of TPM/IWS and maintenance excellence frameworks
• Proven root-cause analysis capability and reduction of equipment losses
• Coaching and leadership skills with cross-team influence
• Ability to interpret data, analyse trends and translate insights into action
• Experience supporting engineering projects, commissioning, or CAPEX delivery
• Strong commitment to safety, compliance and process discipline

• coaching and people development
• cross-team collaboration
• problem-solving mindset
• Breakdown Elimination (BDE) / root-cause analysis
• maintenance planning and scheduling
• equipment reliability strategies

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