Maintenance Manager – Badminton

Company: Ruth Wagstaff Recruitment Ltd
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Maintenance Manager

Up to £68,000

Monday-Friday

  • 34 days holiday
  • Bonus scheme
  • Private medical
  • Enhanced pension
  • Life assurance
  • Development plans

A leading FMCG manufacturer is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to join their senior engineering team. This is an excellent opportunity for a forward-thinking engineering leader with a strong background in reliability, continuous improvement, condition-based maintenance, and asset care within a fast-paced production environment.

The successful candidate will play a key role in driving equipment reliability, reducing downtime, improving maintenance strategies, and leading a skilled engineering team across a highly automated manufacturing facility.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of Maintenance Engineers, Supervisors and Reliability personnel.
  • Drive improvements in plant reliability, OEE and asset performance.
  • Implement and develop Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) programmes including vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis and predictive maintenance techniques.
  • Manage planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and predictive maintenance activities.
  • Develop reliability-centred maintenance strategies and asset care plans.
  • Utilise CMMS systems to monitor maintenance performance and optimise maintenance schedules.
  • Analyse downtime trends and execute root cause analysis to eliminate recurring failures.
  • Manage maintenance budgets, contractor performance and spare parts strategies.
  • Support continuous improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives across the site.
  • Ensure compliance with health, safety and engineering standards.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Maintenance Manager, Engineering Manager, Reliability Manager, Engineering Team Leader or similar.
  • Background within FMCG, Food Manufacturing, Beverage, Packaging, Pharmaceutical, Consumer Goods or High-Speed Manufacturing environments.
  • Strong understanding of Condition Based Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance methodologies.
  • Experience implementing reliability improvement initiatives.
  • Knowledge of TPM, RCA, FMEA, Asset Management and Continuous Improvement techniques.
  • Strong leadership and people management skills.
  • Engineering qualification (HNC, HND, Degree or equivalent) preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and annual bonus.
  • Enhanced pension scheme.
  • Private healthcare.
  • Training and development opportunities.
  • Career progression within a growing manufacturing organisation.
  • Life assurance and additional benefits package.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Job Tenure: PermanentSalary: Up to £68000 per annum + Pension, LA, DIS, 34 days holidayLocation: Badminton, Somerset

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Posted: October 21st, 2026