Associate Maintenance Manager

Associate Maintenance Manager – Packing

Location: Macclesfield

Are you an experienced engineering or maintenance professional who enjoys solving problems, improving equipment performance and working collaboratively in a manufacturing environment?

We’re looking for an Associate Maintenance Manager to join our Packing team in Macclesfield. You’ll provide technical and improvement support across manufacturing operations, helping to increase equipment reliability, availability and performance while ensuring work is delivered safely and compliantly.

What you’ll do

In this role, you’ll work closely with Production, Engineering, Quality and other teams to identify opportunities, solve technical challenges and deliver sustainable improvements.

You’ll:

• Work with Production to integrate maintenance, improvement and manufacturing activities through effective maintenance planning.
• Identify, prioritise and lead equipment and process improvement opportunities.
• Review equipment performance data to identify trends, risks and areas for improvement.
• Use problem-solving and improvement tools such as RCA, RCM, FMEA, TPM and value mapping.
• Lead technical investigations and support the resolution of manufacturing and equipment issues.
• Deliver changes that improve equipment reliability, robustness, efficiency and performance.
• Support compliant change control and ensure relevant GMP, safety and engineering requirements are considered.
• Use performance measures including OEE and Pareto analysis to identify and address recurring issues.
• Collaborate with internal teams, contractors and suppliers to deliver technical improvements.
• Coach and support colleagues, sharing your technical knowledge and helping to build capability across the team.
• Support improvement initiatives and projects while balancing operational priorities.
• Act as an on-plant deputy for the Maintenance Manager when required.

Essential experience and skills

We’re looking for someone with:

• A relevant technical or engineering degree, HNC or equivalent qualification.
• Experience delivering equipment, asset or process improvements within a highly regulated environment.
• Experience providing reactive and proactive technical support within manufacturing.
• The ability to use data to evaluate equipment performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Knowledge of OEE and Pareto analysis, including using performance data to recommend and implement improvements.
• A good understanding of statistical data and analysis.
• Experience producing technical reports and documentation.
• Knowledge of relevant engineering and maintenance standards, with the ability to share knowledge and train others.

Desirable experience

It would be beneficial if you have experience in some of the following areas:

• Manufacturing maintenance.
• Maintenance Excellence or TPM principles.
• Process improvement within a highly regulated environment.
• Data analysis and delivery of improvement initiatives.
• Project or business process management.
• Equipment qualification.
• Change management.
• Aseptic pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Why join us?

This is an opportunity to use your engineering expertise in a hands-on environment where your work can directly influence equipment reliability, manufacturing performance and continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate with teams across Production, Engineering and Quality while developing your technical and problem-solving capabilities.

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.

Date Posted

13-Oct-2026

Closing Date

27-Oct-2026

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