Maintenance Leader

Job Description:

Job Title: Maintenance Leader (T2)

Location: Plymouth, UK

We’re looking for a Maintenance Leader who’ll be accountable for all maintenance activities for both Production and Utilities assets in PLY. In this role, you will ensure compliance to standards and efficient workflows to ensure reliable production processes and services. You’ll be responsible for building a high-performing maintenance team, driving continuous improvement, and delivering world-class maintenance practices that support safe and efficient factory operations.

Working closely with the Site Safey, Quality, Operations and Technical Team, you will help shape and deliver the site's maintenance strategy, improve asset performance, and support key investment initiatives. As a key member of the Progressive Maintenance (PM) Pillar, you'll play a critical role in embedding best practices, enhancing maintenance capability, and driving long-term maintenance excellence.

What are we looking for?

• Experience leading or managing teams within a manufacturing or production environment

• Significant experience within maintenance or technical engineering functions, ideally with exposure to utilities and site services.

• Working knowledge of SAP, including PM modules.

• Change management experience

• Technical degree or technical qualification (preferred but not essential)

What will be your key responsibilities?

Functional Leadership:

• Lead and develop the maintenance team to deliver effective preventative maintenance plans, maximise factory performance, and coordinate site-wide shutdown activities.
• Ensure compliance, asset reliability, and operational excellence through the effective execution of maintenance standards. Using SAP PM processes to manage both electrical and mechanical maintenance activities.
• Drive continuous improvement across preventative maintenance programmes, identifying opportunities to enhance equipment performance, efficiency, and reliability.
• Oversee maintenance resources and contractors, providing technical leadership, supporting factory-wide decision-making, and ensuring high standards of execution across the site.
• Us Progressive Maintenance Pillar KPI’s to ensure that the maintenance team delivers strong results

People Leadership:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of maintenance associates, fostering a high-performance culture through effective performance management, capability building, and development planning.
• Drive associate engagement and operational excellence through clear communication, coaching, and support for problem-solving and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build strong partnerships across Maintenance, Reliability, and Operations teams to deliver safe, efficient, and reliable manufacturing performance.

Strategic Maintenance:

• As a member of the Site Technical team, the Maintenance Leader will help shape the maintenance strategy and drive the capabilities and performance of all team members forward, using the tools provided through the PM pillar

• Collaborating with Site Technical Team peers to lead and partner in maintenance technical strategy, asset performance improvement and asset investment

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Mars is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable adjustments for individuals with disabilities during the application and recruitment process. To request reasonable adjustments, complete our Reasonable Accommodation Request Form here: Reasonable Adjustment Request Form .