Requirements
Requires experience in engineering, maintenance, and people management, along with experience setting and delivering engineering KPIs. Relevant senior engineering qualifications are required; an engineering degree and safety qualifications such as IOSH or NEBOSH are desirable.
Job Description
Application Deadline: 20 November 2026
Department: Engineering & Maintenance
Location: Wyke
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 www.pxlimited.com
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, 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 maintenance delivery, 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 safe delivery of plant shutdowns. Accountable for agreed maintenance delivery budget, highlighting and managing any overspend on forecast.
- Working with manufacturing and engineering leaders to highlight and implement cost saving and efficiency.
- Develop and implement maintenance and organisational strategy in conjunction with Manufacturing Manager.
- Experience in Engineering, Maintenance and People management
- Experience in setting and delivering engineering KPI’s
- Relevant Senior Engineering qualifications (E, C&I , Mechanical, Chemical, etc)
- Relevant Engineering Degree.
- Relevant Safety Qualifications (IOSH, NEBOSH etc)
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.
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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. Operating on a 24/7 basis, providing services at this level requires professionalism and competence coupled with a safety and environmentally conscious mind set to deliver operational excellence. This capability has been shaped by a 25 year history in managing, operating and maintaining some of Europe’s most significant industrial infrastructure including two of the UK’s largest and most strategic gas processing facilities. px Group also owns Saltend Chemicals Park at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber, home to several world-leading manufacturing businesses such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, INEOS, and Vivergo Fuels and the location for Equinor’s hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, the anchor project for Zero Carbon Humber. This introduction of hydrogen at our Saltend Park, and our continuous search with all current and new industrial users for further synergies in energy and resource use will help to transform the park into a future proof Green Energy Park. We are committed to the Energy Transition, and reducing emissions across all our operations, including the sites we manage and operate on behalf of our clients. We are growing internationally and are involved in some of the newest flagship waste-to-fuels projects including ReNew’s plastic recycling plant in Teesside and GIDARA Energy’s advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam which will convert non-recyclable waste into bio-methanol.
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