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Job Description
**Job Summary:** ABP Food Group seeks an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead the Engineering team at our Clones site, ensuring business and customer expectations are met while driving engineering standards and improving production efficiency.
Founded in Ireland in 1954, ABP Food Group is a global food producer supplying high-quality beef and lamb for the retail, foodservice, and manufacturing sectors. We work alongside a network of over 45,000 farmers, across Ireland, Poland, and the UK, contributing to rural economies and promoting sustainability.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Support the engineering function, aligning with the site engineering strategy and annual engineering departmental targets
- Liaise with operations manager to ensure smooth running of production and attend daily meetings to review
- Assist in assigned long-term preventative maintenance programs and projects
- Develop and maintain relations between Engineering and other departments
- Supervise installations and modify processes to enhance operation productivity
- Review equipment failure & OEE trends to implement continuous improvement actions and measure performance
- Support the mentoring, coaching, and development program of the team, liaising with the training & HR departments
- Lead high standards of safety practices across the business
- Assign, train, develop, and supervise work of engineering within retail processing
- Work with and help develop new and existing KPIs
- Manage and contribute towards continuous improvement projects
- Support site technical issue resolution and completion of improvement actions through good engineering practices and guidance
- Ensure high standards of engineering workmanship and housekeeping across the site
- Identify and share best practice and contribute towards raising awareness, improving performance, and transitioning to a pro-active engineering culture
- Manage workload planning, labour utilisation through CMMS
- Support the development of CMMS
- Completion of reactive maintenance work when machinery breaks down to ensure impact of line efficiencies is minimized
- Ensure best value and cost-effective use of resources to ensure efficiency on site
- Weekend site management - site services, contractor control, supporting and liaising with senior management team
**People Management:**
- Manage, coach, and develop a high-performing Maintenance team that meets agreed objectives and delivers best practice results
- Set department objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports
- Report on achievement of targets and identify any actions required
- Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team
- Ensure the delivery of the People Strategy within area of accountability
- Manage and lead the team, ensuring adequate staffing levels
- Motivate and coach the team to operational success
- Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance and record on appropriate systems
- Review, implement, and update company records, e.g., training matrices, performance reviews, risk assessments
- Communicate KPIs from the strategic annual plan so that each employee is aware
**Personal Specification:**
- Support, comply, and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, the Company Handbook, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures
- Support, encourage, and develop team and take ownership for team cohesion
- Proactively contribute to creating a good team atmosphere
- Anticipate and overcome obstacles
- Makes useful links to arrive at insightful plans and solutions
- Embrace personal challenge
- Confident, rounded thinking
- Is self-aware
- Is resilient, optimistic, and open to change
- Has an adult-to-adult, collaborative approach with others
- A self-starter, motivated, and able to positively motivate others
- Focused and target-driven with a positive, can-do attitude
- Input into Group Engineering and provide feedback, information, and help develop SOP's