Maintenance Engineering and Turnaround Leader

3 months ago

ThorntonCleveleys, United Kingdom Victrex Full time

We’re looking for an exceptional Maintenance Engineering and Turnaround Lead to manage all aspects of site maintenance and turnaround, driving reliability, availability, and efficiency to new heights.

Role Purpose:As the Maintenance Engineering and Turnaround Lead, you’ll lead the planning, scheduling, and execution of maintenance and turnaround activities. Your mission? To optimise reliability, maximise output, ensure safety, and control costs while maintaining compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement both short-term and long-term maintenance and turnaround strategies to meet our business goals.
  • Team Management: Lead a diverse team of professionals, including multi-discipline engineers and maintenance planners, to ensure all maintenance activities are meticulously planned and executed.
  • Cost Management: Oversee a substantial budget, managing costs related to maintenance and turnarounds while contributing to the long-term asset plan.
  • Safety and Compliance: Drive safety leadership across all activities, integrating safe working practices and ensuring compliance with all quality and certification standards.
  • Continuous Improvement: Champion continuous improvement programs to elevate our maintenance engineering and turnaround processes to best-in-class levels.

Experience and Skills:

We’re seeking a leader with demonstrable experience in managing complex engineering assets and working on COMAH-regulated industrial plants. Your expertise should span multi-discipline engineering, maintenance excellence, and continuous improvement techniques. You’ll also need:

  • A degree in a relevant discipline and Chartered Engineer status.
  • Full membership in a relevant professional body.
  • Proven track record in implementing global maintenance work processes and turnaround methodologies.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Why Join Us?

This is your opportunity to lead a vital function in a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation. You'll play a crucial role in shaping our maintenance and turnaround strategies, working with a talented team. If you’re passionate about driving excellence and making a tangible impact, we want to hear from you

Apply now to be a part of our exciting journey and take your career to the next level

NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE.

At present, we are not accepting any candidates via a recruitment agency or third party. 

About Victrex

Victrex is an innovative world leader in high-performance PEEK (Poly Ether Ether Ketone) and PAEK (Poly Aryl Ether Ketone) polymer solutions focusing on the strategic markets of automotive, aerospace, energy and industrial, electronics and medical. Every day, millions of people use products and applications containing our materials – from smartphones, aeroplanes and cars to energy operations and medical devices.

With over 40 years‘ experience, we are developing world leading solutions with PEEK and PAEK-based polymers and selected semi-finished and finished parts which enable environmental and societal benefit for our customers and our markets and drive value for our shareholders

Vision and culture

At Victrex we have a clear purpose: to bring transformational and sustainable solutions which address world material challenges every day.

This underpins our core values; passion, innovation and performance which are at the heart of our business.

Our culture is shaped by how we work together, driving for results with a focus on customers, continuous improvement and doing the right thing. Our values, passion, innovation, and performance are at the heart of our business and we value and recognise how every employee plays an important role in enabling us to deliver our growth strategy.

Sustainability is core to our strategy. We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint while supporting society through our sustainable products and making a positive impact on our local communities. We have recently become winners of the prestigious Ecovadis Silver Award, which is a universal acknowledgement of our sustainability rating as being in the top 5% of over 75,000 companies. We are also proud to be recognised as a ‘Disability Confident’ employer.

Our aim is to provide the support of accessibility and community within Victrex for everyone. So, if you need any help, advice or just want a confidential chat regarding any Diversity, Equity or Inclusion matters even before you apply to Victrex, then here is what you need to know:

The enabling support that Victrex prides itself on giving, starts from when anyone applies or wants to apply to join our team.

We are always here to help provide any ‘reasonable adjustments’ you may need during your application process. So please contact us to discuss your specific requirements in more depth.

We even have a dedicated email that anyone can use to reach out for help, advice, and a confidential chat......whatever you need to know, and to help ensure an equitable solution,  that’s right for you, right from the start

That email is: enablerecruitment@victrex.com

Victrex values diversity and encourages applications from all
sections of the community.

Please talk to us about flexible working.



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