Job Description:

Maintenance & Compliance Manager

Location: North Walsham

Salary: £65,000 + Package

Days (37.5 hours)

This is not a maintenance manager role where you inherit a well-oiled machine.
This is a role where you build it, shape it, and own it.

Sitting on the Senior Leadership Team, you’ll take full accountability for engineering standards, asset care, and compliance across a complex, high-volume manufacturing site — with the autonomy to raise the bar and leave a legacy.

Why this role stands out

• True ownership – you define the maintenance strategy, not just execute it
• SLT influence – a seat at the table with real decision-making authority
• Build & shape a function – develop structure, capability, and standards
• Balance of strategy + hands-on credibility – not a desk-only leadership role
• Long-term impact – asset reliability, compliance, and culture sit with you

What you’ll be accountable for: Maintenance & Compliance Manager

You’ll lead the entire engineering and asset care function, with responsibility for both people and performance.

• Own and deliver the site-wide Asset Care strategy
• Set and enforce engineering standards, compliance, and safe systems of work
• Lead HSE performance with a zero-accident mindset
• Drive a data-led maintenance culture through CMMS and KPI ownership
• Take full ownership of engineering compliance, audits, and statutory requirements
• Lead CAPEX, projects, and installation of new production capability
• Manage and develop a multi-layer engineering team, including:
• Shift Asset Care Technicians
• Compliance Team Leader
• Project Engineer
• Process Engineering capability
• Control maintenance budgets, spend, and long-term asset planning
• Partner closely with operations, planning, finance, and senior stakeholders

What we’re looking for: Maintenance & Compliance Manager

This role needs more than a good maintenance manager — it needs a leader who can set direction and hold standards.

• Proven experience in a senior maintenance or engineering leadership role
• Strong background in manufacturing or industrial environments
• Deep understanding of engineering compliance, audits, and statutory requirements
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams through structure and change
• Solid technical foundation (mechanical, electrical, or both)
• Track record of delivering projects, CAPEX, and continuous improvement
• Able to operate confidently at senior leadership level

What’s on offer

• £65,000 salary
• 33 days holiday
• 6% pension
• Private medical (including dental)
• Death in service (2x salary)

But more importantly:

A role with real ownership, visibility, and progression potential

The reality of the role

This is a site with opportunity — not perfection.

If you’re motivated by:

Raising standards

Building teams

Creating structure where it’s needed

Leaving a lasting impact

You’ll thrive here.

If you’re looking for:

A steady-state environment

Minimal challenge

Or a purely strategic role without hands-on leadership

This won’t be the right fit.

If you’re ready to step into a role where engineering, compliance, and performance sit firmly in your hands, apply now.