Maintenance Manager

Location: Inverness

Type: Full-Time

West Fraser is a diversified wood products company with more than 60 facilities in Canada, the United States and Europe. From responsibly sourced and sustainably managed forest resources, the company produces lumber, engineered wood (OSB, LVL, MDF, plywood, particleboard), and other products including pulp, newsprint, wood chips and renewable energy.

Our UK-manufactured products are used extensively in the construction, DIY and furniture sectors. Our brands, SterlingOSB Zero, CaberFloor and CaberMDF, are well known in the construction industry and are commonly specified by architects, national housebuilders and specifiers.

We are proud that as a certified net carbon negative company we lock up more carbon in our products than we emit making them, helping the UK construction sector comply with net zero targets and beyond.

Due to planned retirement and an adequate handover period, an opportunity will shortly become available for a Maintenance Manager at our Inverness site.  Reporting directly to the General Manager, the Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring that processes, systems, equipment and people are maintained and developed in an effective way to meet Plant Management priorities for asset improvement and reliability, whilst maintaining safe and legal compliance.

Some of the key responsibilities within this role include:

• Ensuring maintenance and/or engineering activities are carried out in a safe manner in compliance with all relevant company health and safety legislation.
• Leading a team to ensure all work is planned, scheduled, and completed in agreed timescales.
• Continually reviewing and improving site operational effectiveness, project delivery, mean time between failure and downtime reduction.
• Manage, coach, and develop a high performing Maintenance team that meets agreed objectives to deliver best practice results, added value, and continuous improvements.
• Management and implementation of continuous improvement strategies and modern manufacturing principals.
• Develop, implement, and manage Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for each area of responsibility and drive the principles of continuous improvement.
• Ensure that designated buildings, plant, and facilities are fit for purpose and to provide proactive support/solutions when required.
• Input and hold responsibility for maintenance budgets.
• Attend various meetings and action/communicate instructions.
• Produce written reports and make presentations.
• Support maintenance team on the use of contractors on site to ensure they meet legal and company requirements.

*This list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive

Qualifications/Experience (Essential)

• Time served engineer with an electrical/mechanical/electronic discipline.
• BS degree (or Equivalent) in engineering discipline or suitable time served experience at Maintenance Manager level.
• Industrial experience within manufacturing, engineering and procurement/supply chain.
• Experience managing Profit and loss responsibilities for maintenance. 
• Self-assured and direct with the skills to challenge and influence at all levels of the business
• Safety conscious

Desirable

• Membership of (or working towards) an appropriate professional body such as the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (nice to have).
• High voltage experience.
• PLC knowledge.
• Hydraulics knowledge.
• Pneumatics knowledge.
• Pressure vessels.
• Thermal oil.

If you meet the above criteria and would like a full job description / more information, please send your current CV to [email protected]