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Maintenance Manager

Salary Competitive
Location Kings Lynn
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Maintenance Manager
Location: Kings Lynn
Hours: Monday-Friday

Lead Engineering Excellence. Drive Reliability. Deliver Continuous Improvement.

Pilgrim's Europe is looking for an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead our engineering function and play a key role in driving operational performance, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement across the site.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proven engineering leader who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and is passionate about developing teams, improving asset performance, and creating a proactive maintenance culture.

What You'll Be Doing

As Maintenance Manager, you will lead and develop the engineering team, ensuring the safe, efficient, and cost-effective operation of all site equipment and facilities. Working closely with the Site Engineering Manager, you will help drive the transition from reactive maintenance to a planned, improvement-focused culture.

Why Join Us?

At Pilgrim's Europe, you'll be part of a business committed to investing in its people, equipment and future growth. You'll have the opportunity to make a real impact on site performance, develop high-performing teams and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence.

We offer:

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Career development and progression opportunities.
  • Ongoing training and professional development.
  • The opportunity to work within a collaborative and supportive leadership team.
  • A role where your ideas and improvements can genuinely make a difference.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading, coaching and developing a multi-skilled engineering team.
  • Driving site performance through improved uptime, efficiency and asset reliability.
  • Managing engineering budgets, labour costs and departmental KPIs.
  • Ensuring effective preventative maintenance programmes are delivered through SAP.
  • Supporting continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime and improve performance.
  • Managing engineering projects, contractor control and statutory compliance activities.
  • Maintaining audit-ready standards across safety, hygiene, quality and engineering compliance.
  • Developing succession plans and ensuring team capability through training and mentoring.
  • Collaborating closely with Production, Planning and Technical teams to achieve site objectives.
  • Ensuring maintenance records, SOPs and risk assessments remain current and compliant.

Essential

  • HNC qualification (or equivalent) in Mechanical, Electrical or a related Engineering discipline.
  • Minimum 2 years' experience in a management or supervisory engineering role.
  • Strong knowledge of planned preventative maintenance (PPM) systems.
  • Understanding of engineering compliance, permits to work, safe systems of work and HSE requirements.
  • Experience managing maintenance budgets and engineering resources.
  • Strong people management, coaching and mentoring skills.
  • Proven ability to drive continuous improvement and operational performance.

Desirable

  • Experience working within a food manufacturing or FMCG environment.
  • Knowledge of SAP maintenance management systems.
  • Experience implementing asset care and reliability improvement programmes.
  • Lean Manufacturing or Continuous Improvement experience.

Pilgrim’s Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.

Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.

Across Pilgrim’s Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim’s Europe team are based in our Pilgrim’s UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s Shared Services businesses.

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