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. Were 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 smoothlyensuring 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 Youll 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. Comfortable leading in a fast-paced, regulated environmentideally 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 backgroundhands-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. Skills: maintenance supervisor maintenance manager maintenance engineer