Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Melium Consulting is partnering with one of the world’s leading food manufacturers to appoint a Maintenance & Reliability Manager for its flagship manufacturing site in the South of France.

This is a strategic leadership role within a highly complex manufacturing environment with responsibility for shaping and executing the site’s maintenance and reliability strategy.

The mandate:

• Lead the maintenance reliability organisation, building technical capability across the site
• Define and deploy the maintenance strategy across TPM methodologies
• Improve equipment reliability and plant availability through preventive action
• Drive digitalisation through CMMS optimisation and KPI-led performance management
• Lead maintenance plans, shutdown programmes, and reliability improvement projects
• Partner closely with Operations to embed Autonomous & Preventative Maintenance
• Optimise maintenance costs, spare-parts management and overall asset performance

The profile:

• We are looking for an experienced maintenance and reliability leader with 5–7+ years’ experience leading teams and contractors within a sophisticated industrial environment.
• You will bring strong expertise in Lean/TPM and Planned Maintenance, alongside the ability to design and deploy a structured reliability strategy. An Engineering or relevant technical Master’s degree and professional fluency in English are required.
• Beyond the immediate mandate, this position forms part of an active succession plan, creating a genuine pathway towards broader leadership responsibility.