Maintenance Lead

Maintenance Lead
Ashby de la Zouch (Home of Hula Hoops, Space Raiders, Nik Naks and more)
On-site, Monday - Friday 08:00 - 16:00

Join our snack-loving team
We’re looking for a Maintenance Lead to join us at KP Snacks. If you’re ready to bring your ideas to the table, grow your skills and be part of a team that values what makes you, you – this could be your next big move.

Who are we?
We’re KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack family. Across more than 30 countries, over 15,000 of us work together to make the snacks people love – from Hula Hoops to McCoy’s. In the UK, we’re a team of around 2,400 colleagues, based across seven sites and our Slough HQ. We’re proud of our close-knit culture, where we speak up, celebrate differences and push boundaries together.

About the role

As a Maintenance Lead, you'll take ownership of Site Services maintenance, ensuring critical utilities and infrastructure are maintained to the highest standard. Your focus will be on maximising equipment reliability, reducing service interruptions and delivering effective asset care strategies across boilers, compressors, plant room equipment, effluent treatment systems and other Site Services assets.

You'll play a leading role in Health & Safety, ensuring maintenance activities are planned and carried out safely and in line with site procedures. This includes managing contractors, controlling permits to work, reviewing risk assessments and method statements, and ensuring robust isolation procedures and safe systems of work are in place before work begins.

Working closely with Engineering and Operations colleagues, you'll drive maintenance excellence by analysing losses, identifying improvement opportunities and implementing sustainable solutions. You'll support the delivery of Autonomous Maintenance, ensuring equipment remains safe, compliant and reliable.

You'll also play a key role in our zero loss journey, leading reliability improvements, supporting statutory compliance activities, delivering continuous improvement projects and providing technical expertise for capital projects across Site Services.

What’s in it for you?
We believe in rewarding our colleagues and helping them thrive. Here’s a flavour of what we offer:

• £49,231 annual salary and annual salary review

• KP Pension Plan with up to 7% matched contributions

• Annual bonus scheme

• 25 days holiday, with the option to buy up to five additional days

• Comprehensive healthcare support including Health Cash Plan, Digital GP and Employee Assistance Programme

• KP4ME benefits platform with discounts, cashback and wellbeing support

• Enhanced family-friendly policies to support colleagues at every stage of life

What will you be doing?

• Leading Site Services performance
  Taking ownership of critical Site Services equipment including boilers, compressors, plant room equipment, effluent treatment systems and other infrastructure, ensuring assets are reliable, efficient and fit for purpose whilst maintaining a safe operating environment

• Owning statutory servicing and inspections
  Ensuring all servicing, inspections and compliance activities are completed on time, with accurate records maintained and audit requirements met

• Leading maintenance, contractor management and fault resolution activities
  Using your technical expertise to coordinate maintenance activities, supervise contractors, review risk assessments and method statements (RAMS), manage permits to work and drive effective repairs to maximise equipment reliability and minimise downtime

• Owning Site Services compliance requirements
  Managing activities relating to LOLER inspections, legionella control, sprinkler systems, fire systems and other statutory requirements. Ensuring appropriate isolations, control measures and safe systems of work are in place to keep the site safe and compliant

• Driving continuous improvement and Health & Safety excellence
  Identifying opportunities to improve equipment reliability, efficiency and performance while supporting the ongoing development of the Intersnack Working System (IWS) across Engineering. Promoting safe working practices, challenging unsafe behaviours, supporting incident investigations and ensuring Health & Safety actions are completed within agreed timescales

We’d love to hear from you if you can bring:

• A recognised Engineering Apprenticeship or Engineering qualification
  Combined with relevant experience maintaining Site Services, utilities or industrial equipment within a manufacturing environment

• Strong mechanical and electrical engineering experience
  With knowledge of equipment such as boilers, compressors, pumps, motors, control systems, plant room equipment and other utilities infrastructure

• A strong Health & Safety mindset
  With experience of safe systems of work, risk assessments, method statements, isolation procedures and permit-to-work systems within an engineering or manufacturing environment

• Experience managing contractors
  Confident coordinating contractors, reviewing risk assessments and method statements (RAMS), controlling site access and permits, and ensuring work is completed safely and to the required technical and site standards

• Strong communication, stakeholder management and IT skills
  Comfortable working independently while building effective relationships with colleagues, contractors and stakeholders across the site. Able to use Microsoft Office applications and maintain accurate maintenance, compliance and audit records

Our purpose
At KP Snacks, we're passionate about creating happy snacking moments through our great tasting snacks and iconic brands. Every day, millions of people enjoy our products, including Hula Hoops, McCoy's, KP Nuts, Tyrrells, Skips, POM-BEAR and Butterkist, making us one of the UK's leading snack manufacturers.

For decades, we've been delighting consumers by combining well-loved favourites with exciting innovations that reflect changing tastes and expectations. We're equally passionate about our people and committed to creating a workplace where everyone can grow, develop and make a real impact.

As part of the Intersnack Group, one of the world's leading snack manufacturers, we combine global expertise with a shared commitment to creating happy snacking moments every day.

We’re committed to inclusion
We’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. If you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you – your unique perspective could be just what we need. And if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you, just let us know.