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Area Engineering Maintenance Manager
Competitive salary, GBP 5,500Car allowanceplusHealthcare,18 annual bonus potential with 27.5days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with serve and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
This is a regional role covering RM sites in South Mids, Midlands and the North East
Royal Mail is currently looking to add an Area Engineering Maintenance Manager to its team. You will be a key member of the engineering senior leadership team, accountable for the successful creation and deployment of the strategic performance improvement plans for maintenance. This is a critical leadership role, in which you will be expected to drive sustained performance improvement of our assets through coaching utilising 5F and continuous improvement practises.
It's an exciting time for Royal Mail... Engineering and Design are transforming how we work Our Engineering vision is blossoming with the establishment of an in:house engineering design team focussed on innovation; transforming operational processes to improve the pace and quality we provide for customers as well as help us to achieve the business net zero strategy. With some exciting improvements deployed and more underway, the demand is growing for us to scale up across the business.
About the role
You will work in collaboration with key stakeholders, managing 5 Technical Maintenance Mangers who are each responsible for 3/4 RM sites acting as a technical business partner. You will have direct control over a budget of GBP 6 million and indirect control of sites budgets totally around GBP 500 million.
A Key facet of this role is driving cultural change within the maintenance community, focusing on fostering an innovative climate amongst their teams, developing not only performance improvement of our assets but our people, ensuring people develop and grow within roles. The role is responsible in delivering compliance to Royal Mails legislative and regulatory requirements that affect the maintenance and use of the automation equipment and to drive key performance metrics to achieve the operational goals.
You will also:
- Create, own and drive strategic plans in the region to meet the maintenance strategy and standards which underpins business KPIs
- Develop influential and collaborative working relationship with senior operational teams and our unions, focused on driving sustained performance improvement
- Develop a culture of continuous improvement and innovation at all levels to drive the maintenance revolution, embed new ways of working and drive cost benefits within engineering and operation
- Own and manage non:staff budget and provide tactical support to the operational colleagues in managing the staff budget
- Drive asset reliability, quality and performance against strategic business and maintenance KPI's to ensure minimal disruption and costs to the operation
- Lead diverse and geographically spread team to foster a climate of innovation, building on team capabilities to enhance business performance
- Lead a team of Plant Maintenance managers to deliver performance improvement of our assets, owning people development plan across the region driving learning culture
- Work collaboratively with the engineering strands to effectively integrate new automation across the plants in line with the early equipment management principles
About you
You will be responsible for the Line management for 4 Technical Maintenance Managers and matrix management of 220+ Maintenance Technicians and circa 30 apprentices so experience of managing dispersed technical teams in a highly automated environment is essential for the role.
You also:
- Have exception change management skills, able to create an environment striving for innovation and creativity, establishing the value of ideas and change initiatives