Job Description

Maintenance Manager  – Automotive supplier – experience ideally

County Durham – Peterlee / Seaham

CDS Recruitment and Training Ltd have an Automotive Engineering manufacturing Company that have been expanding. They supply interior and exterior parts to OEMs and are currently recruiting a maitenance manager to join the team.
 
They offer a salary of 50 -60k depending on experience. with 25 days holiday, up to 10 % annual bouns and 6% ER Pension Contribution.

The role is to Organise and manage site maintenance (preventive and curative). Machines include ABB Paint Robots amongst others. 

Main Missions

1 – Manage external service providers used by the Maintenance department

Decide on the use of external service providers

Select external organisations and negotiate their work in collaboration with the purchasing department

Schedule preventive and curative maintenance and improvements made by external companies

Analyse failures and intervention time for corrective and preventive actions

Check the services provided by external companies

Ensure the storage of equipment and compliance with safety instructions and procedures

2 – Organise and schedule the preventive and curative maintenance of buildings and shared equipment and/or production means and adjust, maintain and upgrade the programming of production equipment

Schedule preventive maintenance based on potential risks

Coordinate the curative maintenance of production equipment

Analyse failures and intervention time for corrective and preventive actions

Help to select and approve maintenance purchases

Chair working groups, analyse major failures

Define the management policy for spare parts

3 – Provide expertise in the field of Maintenance

Assist with the study and definition of general new machine specifications and provide technical support as required

Define and implement corrective actions to improve the service

Minimise shut-downs of equipment and installations

Work on new projects to Monitor and identify obstacles

Is the energy referent and improve the energy efficiency (analysis, improvement proposal, implementation … )

4 – Manage his/her activity

Based on the objectives of his/her activity, prepare action plans and coordinate the missions of his/her

team in a coherent manner

Monitor performance indicators for his/her activity, implement corrective actions if necessary and inform his/her teams of them

Ensure that his/her teams remain motivated and that there is a good internal atmosphere

Specific Missions

The job holder may be assigned all or some of the following missions:

Troubleshoot during specific breakdowns at the request of Plant Management

Manage the movement of tools excluding moulds (subcontracting, obsolescence, renewal)

Draft the progress plan, monitor and optimise indicators.

Responsibilities in terms of QSEP

-Ensure that processes, work instruction sheets and related appendices are correctly understood and properly implemented.

-Decide to cease any processes that are identified as being dangerous and detrimental to the safety of persons or to property

Contact Chris Sultman with an upto date cv and paragraph of suitability.