Maintenance Manager

Job Title: Maintenance Manager

This role is a critical role within our operations and will report to the Operations Director.

Salary: Starting salary commensurate with experience and qualifications

Location: This role will be based at Kilwaughter, Co. Antrim with some amount of travel to other sites

Role Purpose: As part of a highly successful business, this role will operate as a critical member of the Management team with responsibility for the reliability, availability, and efficiency of all plant and equipment. You will lead a team of engineers and technicians to deliver a safety-first culture, proactive, preventative maintenance culture, reducing downtime and improving overall equipment effectiveness. The company culture places high value on its customer experience along with the team that creates that experience. Creativity and collaboration are highly valued as is a relentless energy for continuous improvement.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong technical, problem-solving, and people engagement skills. You will work closely with operations to drive continuous improvement, cost savings, and compliance while fostering a culture of safety, continuous learning, accountability and ownership.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive a safety-first culture, ensuring maintenance activities contribute to zero harm.
• Conduct regular risk assessments, audits, and safety training for the team.
• Develop a high-performance Maintenance team, achieved through coaching, mentoring and upskilling of the team in safety, proactive maintenance, diagnostics and problem-solving.
• Work collaboratively with Operations and develop a strong customer focused culture.
• Lead structured problem-solving initiatives (5-Whys, FMEA, Kaizen) to foster a problem-solving mindset and culture amongst the team, empowering them to take ownership and eliminate recurring issues.
• Develop and implement training programs to upskill the team in diagnostics and best practices.
• Increase equipment reliability, up-time and throughput by creating detailed documents and in collaboration with Production, implement and embed robust maintenance schedules that align with Customer needs, minimising disruption and reducing reactive breakdowns.
• Establish and foster a culture of root cause analysis and structured problem-solving. Drive improvement initiatives in equipment performance, safety, and process reliability through implementing lean maintenance practices.
• Develop strategies and consider technology and systems to achieve enhanced operational efficiency, optimisation of spare parts inventory and cost reductions.
• Optimise spare parts inventory, reducing unnecessary costs without compromising reliability.
• Ensure the department operates within budget while driving cost-saving initiatives.
• Work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for process improvements and automation.

• Lead, track and report on key maintenance KPIs to identify trends and drive measurable continuous improvements to maximise plant availability, drive efficiencies and reduce maintenance-related production losses.

• Be an ambassador for the company values and at the forefront of a culture of continuous improvement
• Take on any other duties as directed by the Operations Director.

Kilwaughter Minerals Limited

Person Specification February 2025

Job Title: Maintenance Manager

Personality Fit:

• A high energy, inspirational leader who is focused on safety, people and capability development

• A leader who is passionate about our brand, reputation and customers

• A change leader who can excite and engage people with change programmes

• A confident and resilient leader who continually raises performance levels

• A values ambassador who leads by example and walks and talks our values

• A creative thinker who is passionate about problem solving and driving continuous improvement