Shaw Europe Limited proudly operates from its carbon-neutral manufacturing facility in Sanquhar, Scotland, producing high-quality commercial flooring solutions, including carpet tiles and resilient flooring.

In 2018, Shaw Europe acquired Sanquhar Tile Services (STS) – a respected and long-established carpet tile manufacturer in the United Kingdom. Today, STS continues to operate under the Shaw Europe umbrella, maintaining its legacy of manufacturing excellence and craftsmanship in Scotland, with a strong focus on quality, local employment, and environmental responsibility. Alongside STS, Shaw Contract, Shaw’s global commercial brand, delivers innovative and design-led flooring solutions across a wide range of sectors including workplace, education, healthcare, and hospitality.

About the job:

You will need to lead, inspire, challenge & support all maintenance activity at Plant SQ, Sanquhar, Scotland.

This position ensures operational readiness and continuous improvement. You will drive reliability and optimise quality whilst reducing cost and improving the efficiency of our equipment. You must also maintain our infrastructure to provide a safe environment to allow our production associates do their best work.

Some tasks will include, but are not limited too:

Plant Engineering:

Drive the strategic direction of maintenance towards “maintenance excellence”
Provide leadership for continuous improvement of the plants TPM System, with the measure being improved equipment reliability. Use data to develop appropriate PPM schedules across all critical assets.
Effectively manage and lead multicraft maintenance personnel.
Build moral within the maintenance organization. Recognize contributions and value input and ideas.
Develop appropriate engineering KPIs to support the movement from reactive to preventative to continuous improvement tasks
Responsible for managing a maintenance budget. This includes providing leadership and direction across the plant to ensure there is a ROI for maintenance spend and that there are initiatives to optimise this spend.
Seek out opportunities to optimise spare parts procurement and stock holding with a view to reducing expenditure.
Ensure that technicians have the skills necessary to support the facility and to advance in the DOS (Demonstration of Skills) system.
Lead weekly planning meetings with each manufacturing department to prioritize work.
Provide necessary supervision to complete job assignments on schedule and in accordance with the defined scope. Follow-up on jobs to ensure the quality of the work and the satisfaction of the customer.
Implement new methods and/or procedures to improve work methods, equipment performance, and product quality.
Develop business cases, submit, and manage projects.
Manage/Build relationships with contractors and suppliers. Ensure RAMS are received, contractors are inducted and work to the plants local guidelines.
Must have the ability to evaluate the skill level of maintenance technician candidates during the interview process.
Ensure the facility is compliant with regulations and standards and ensure that documentation reflecting compliance is readily available for audit.
Administer departmental and plant policies and procedures.
Prioritize Safety within the maintenance department as the first priority. This will include developing equipment specific LOTO procedures, reviewing and enhancing guarding, ensuring strong contractor control procedures etc.
Build relationships with production staff and local plant leadership.
Build relationships with Divisional Engineering support and follow guidelines/procedures provided.
Build relationships with the Divisional Product Development team.
Other duties as assigned by leadership.

Process Engineering

Advanced Technical knowledge of the manufacturing processes. To include the inputs, outputs, machine settings and product specifications.
Engage in solving manufacturing problems with engineering solutions. To include Safety, Quality, Efficiency. Scope projects and prioritise this workload within the engineering team
Lead Process improvement efforts within the organization. Support and encourage the wider plant continuous improvement journey through coaching and encouragement.
Explore utilities cost reduction opportunities through new technologies, better ways of working or equipment upgrades.
Analyse the insourcing/outsourcing of maintenance tasks against internal resources and ensure an appropriate balance.
Stay current with relevant technology incl. industry 4.0.

Training & Development:

Develop engineering skills in the organization
Act as a mentor for Engineers. Help them to develop their understanding of the equipment and help them develop sound Engineering /Troubleshooting skills.
Be knowledgeable of the DOS system, the requirements of different skill levels and how to advance.
Ensure that Technician skills stay current with Technology. Recognize when there are gaps and utilize resources to provide training.
Provide technical coaching and mentorship as required to non-engineers to support process understanding.
Overtime and weekend work may be required including on-call support. Develop the engineering organisation to effectively offer this service.
Lead standard work introduction in the engineering team
Develop and lead a weekly TPM leadership meeting.
Meet Weekly with Divisional Engineering.
Will be an active member of the plant leadership team.

Who are you?

We are looking for candidates who possess theoretical, practical knowledge and experience of maintenance excellence and maintenance management. Further, we require candidates to be experienced in facilities management and plant upgrades through project preparation, approval submission and contractor management. You must have excellent communication skills with with ability to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels on and off site. You should be a proactive self starter driven by team empowerment where structure and ways of working are critical in the maturity journey. In addition we are looking for the following experience:

Education at degree level within an engineering discipline preferred combined with a proven track record within manufacturing. Candidates with extensive manufacturing and/or engineering & maintenance experience will also be considered.
8+ years project engineering/plant engineering experience. Wide knowledge of manufacturing, including mechanical and electrical equipment.
Desireable to have mechanical, power and controls knowledge.
Strong leadership skills and ability to build trust across your peer group and within your team
Strong knowledge of lean, lean maintenance, six sigma and daily departmental ways of working in production and maintenance environments.
Analytic skills and capabilities, including analysis and presentation of data .
Knowledge of maintenance strategy and modern maintenance approaches e.g. PPMs, condition based maintenance etc.
General awareness of the upkeep requirements of an aging manufacturing facility and an ability to coordinate contractors.
LOTO conversant and maintains this standard at every opportunity within the team.
Knowledge of carpet manufacture and associated processes and equipment, although not essential for the right candidate with a learning attitude.

What do we offer?

We are committed to associate experience in a rewarding, exciting & fast paced international environment. We will provide the challenges to allow you to grow your professional competency and drawdown your existing experience to fully utilise your potential. You will join a market leader and help to keep us ahead of the competition. You will not only apply your technical expertise, but you will dig deep for your leadership skills to transform the plant towards maintenance excellence.

Additionally, for your commitment, we offer:

Generous salary, comensurate with your skills and experience
Performance related pay, where you are empowered to influence your own salary
34 days annual leave (incl. public holidays)
Bi-annual plant-wide performance bonus
Flexible outcome orientated working style
Access to a range of professional and personal development through Shaw Learning Library
Access to discounted company shop
Christmas shopping voucher
Opportinity to travel internationally (US)

Application and contact:

If you want to seize this exciting opportunity, please apply as soon as possible or reach out to courtney.laird@shawinc.com or beverley.alexander@shawinc.com for more information. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the right candidate is found.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

Company pension
Employee discount
Free parking
Life insurance
On-site parking

Work Location: In person

Shaw Industries Group, Inc.

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