Maintenance Manager – Cork - Life Sciences
Are you a hands-on Maintenance Manager with a passion for developing teams, solving problems, and driving plant performance to world-class standards? If so, we want to hear from you.
We’re looking for a skilled and dedicated Maintenance Manager to lead our high-performing maintenance function in Cork. Reporting directly to the Head of Operations, you'll play a critical role in keeping our operations running smoothly—ensuring equipment reliability, team development, and long-term asset performance in a regulated manufacturing environment. You'll be a key player on our Cork Extended Leadership Team (ELT), helping to shape the future of operations. This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership, drive change, and make a real impact in a mission-critical area of the business.
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Provide leadership of safety initiatives and practices to develop and maintain an injury free workplace Develop and deliver a maintenance strategy (including autonomous, preventative and predictive maintenance) in partnership with other leaders within the plant.
* Manage Maintenance capital improvement projects to cost, schedule & time
* Drives the Maintenance and Reliability initiative focused on Preventive & Predictive Maintenance, not reactive.
* Maintain and develop a maintenance management system. Establish sustainable system for effective management and control of technical documentation, maintenance routines, maintenance scheduling and spare parts.
* Establish appropriate maintenance metrics to improve overall asset life, maintenance productivity, and overall equipment operating costs
* Manage projects to improve equipment performance and replace existing equipment.
* Ensure all regulatory standards are followed including health & safety and environmental standards Work with project engineers to ensure new equipment at the site meets maintainability and operability requirements.
* Responsibility for leading the Maintenance team with an emphasis on people development & collaboration to drive performance.
Who You Are:
* A proven Maintenance Manager or Engineering leader with a track record of delivering results.
* A degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
* A Master's degree or Lean Six Sigma Black Belt is a plus
* Comfortable leading in a fast-paced, regulated environment—ideally with experience in medical devices, pharma, or similar.
* Deep knowledge of maintenance best practices, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement (Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen).
* Strong technical background—hands-on understanding of injection moulding, packaging lines, bulk chemical processes, and facilities systems.
* Experience using maintenance management systems to drive scheduling, tracking, and planning.
* A clear and confident communicator who can lead cross-functional teams and influence at all levels of the business.
* Passionate about developing people, fostering collaboration, and building a high-performance culture.
For a confidential discussion and more information on the role, please contactAisling Lane.
aisling.lane@collinsmcnicholas.ie
(021) 4320675
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