Maintenance Delivery Leader

Our Business

px PEOPLE, their commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork, are the reason for px Group’s continuing growth and success story. We aim to be the elite provider of operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions in high hazard, highly regulated industries nationally and as we grow, across Europe and globally. For more information visit

Located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the Wyke Agrichemicals Manufacturing Plant is operated by px Group in partnership with Nufarm. The site is one of the UK's leading crop protection manufacturing facilities, manufacturing crop protection products for Nufarm that support farmers and growers around the world

Wyke is a Top Tier COMAH site, operating a complex chemical manufacturing environment where safety, reliability and operational excellence are fundamental to everything we do. With a skilled workforce across manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, supply chain and support functions, the site offers the opportunity to work alongside experienced professionals in a highly technical environment

The Opportunity

We are now recruiting for a Maintenance Leader

As a Maintenance Leader for px Group, Wyke, you will lead the Maintenance Department and be accountable for the delivery of safe, quality assured, timely and cost-effective maintenance and shutdowns (turnarounds) service by employees and contractors to meet the needs of Manufacturing and other site asset owners

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

Key Responsibilities

• People Leader of the Maintenance Delivery Team and accountable for their health and safety and performance. Translates and communicates the business strategy and objectives to the maintenance personnel. Provides leadership, coaching and expectations for the personnel participating in the plant goal setting processes. Challenges teams and individuals to set, monitor and achieve goals aligned to the business and site strategies and goals.
• Accountable for providing a safe, quality assured, competitive, and responsive maintenance service to the site
• Safely and efficiently execute preventive/predictive and reactive maintenance, implementing best practices in planning, scheduling and materials and employee & contractor management and work patterns to maximise plant uptime at minimum cost.
• Accountable for contractor management (long-term, service and specialist) – safety, quality and cost performance.
• Jointly accountable with Procurement for the selection and verification of contractors and the contractor strategy
• Accountable for the continuous improvement of the maintenance work process (Work orders, planning, scheduling, execution and documenting) and the upkeep of the CMMS
• Accountable for developing, documenting and continuously improving the shutdown work process and the delivery of safe, well planned and executed shutdowns
• Jointly accountable with Manufacturing Leader for ensuring statutory inspections are done on time and escalating any issues to the Engineering Technical Teams for resolution.
• Jointly accountable with Manufacturing Leader and Engineering Services Manager for the Maintenance budget
• Develop and implement maintenance organisation re-design strategy in conjunction with Manufacturing Manager, based on multi-skilling in the maintenance and operating teams

Minimum Requirements

• Degree Qualified within Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Extensive Experience working within Maintenance in a high hazard site, Ideally a COMAH environment.
• Experience working as a people manager and within a leadership role.

What you will receive from us

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• A boosted pension scheme – we’ll match 1.25% to every 1% you pay (up to 8%)
• Simply Health Cash Plan
• Staff Meals
• Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.

About px Group

px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments.