Maintenance Leader
At Essity, we're committed to breaking barriers to well-being through leading hygiene and health solutions. We are now looking for a Maintenance Leader to join our team at Stubbins Paper Mill, a key manufacturing site producing high-quality paper products for some of the UK's most trusted brands.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced maintenance professional and people leader to play a critical role in driving asset reliability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across our mill.
As part of our succession planning and future growth strategy, you'll have the opportunity to work alongside the current Maintenance Leader ahead of a planned retirement, ensuring a strong knowledge transfer while supporting significant site improvement projects. About the Role As Maintenance Leader, you will be responsible for leading the maintenance function, ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable operation of site assets.
You'll champion our "Run to Standard" culture, drive maintenance best practices, and create an environment where safety, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement are embedded in everything we do.
Working closely with production and engineering teams, you will develop and implement maintenance strategies that support the site's long-term objectives while delivering improvements in equipment performance, cost efficiency, and operational stability. What You Will Do Reporting into the Site Leadership Team, you will: Lead and promote Essity's I Care culture, creating a safe, healthy, and sustainable workplace.
Ensure compliance with all legal, regulatory, and site maintenance requirements. Drive adherence to maintenance standards, systems, and processes including SAP PM/MM, CILs, Centrelining, and maintenance best practices. Own planned and reactive maintenance activities across the mill. Develop and lead maintenance planning and scheduling processes, including safety briefings and shutdown planning.
Champion a "zero unplanned stops" philosophy by reducing breakdowns and improving asset reliability. Lead root cause analysis, breakdown elimination activities, and continuous improvement initiatives. Own maintenance KPIs, budgets, defect reduction programmes, and maintenance performance reporting. Manage maintenance systems, technical databases, and asset management processes.
Develop and maintain long-term maintenance and investment plans, including sustainability initiatives and asset lifecycle management. Coach, develop, and lead maintenance teams, creating a culture of accountability, capability-building, and high performance. Contribute to the site's Maintenance Roadmap and support delivery of the wider site strategy.
Who You Are We're looking for a collaborative and proactive leader who thrives in a manufacturing environment and is passionate about developing people, improving reliability, and driving operational excellence. You will ideally have: A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
Proven experience within maintenance, engineering, or reliability leadership in a manufacturing environment. Experience leading, coaching, or influencing technical teams. Strong understanding of preventative maintenance, asset management, and continuous improvement methodologies. Experience using maintenance management systems such as SAP or equivalent CMMS platforms.
Knowledge of root cause analysis, defect elimination, and reliability improvement processes. Strong financial awareness and experience managing maintenance budgets. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills. What We Can Offer You At Essity, you'll be part of a global organisation with a strong local presence, manufacturing trusted hygiene and health products while contributing to a more sustainable future.
You'll join a supportive environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-Being, provides meaning to everything we do. Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment. At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere.
Innovate for Good | Excel Together | Be You with Us #LI-KB2 #Essity-UK #OnSite Application End Date: 21 Oct 2026 Job Requisition ID: Essity265108 Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company. Our expertise began with the acquisition of the Swedish company Mölnlycke in 1975, through which our roots stretch back to 1849.
Today, our sustainable innovations from globally trusted brands, designed for everybody and every body, care for the well-being of 1 billion people in 150 countries every day. Working at Essity is not just a career but a chance to make the world healthier, safer, and more hygienic. We innovate for good to break barriers and contribute to shaping a healthier future.
At Essity, we have a people-first approach where every career is as unique as the individual. We empower employees to excel together and reach their full potential through a winning culture driven by a powerful purpose. Our performance-orientated environment motivates employees to think differently and embrace challenges so we can continue improving lives, every day through better hygiene and health.
We provide a sustainable work-life based on flexibility for both employees and employers. We are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in everything we do. It is the key to our success in creating an inclusive, collaborative, and caring company culture where you can be you with us. Our purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being, enables customers and consumers to lead fuller lives at all stages of life.
Our leading global brands include TENA and Tork, and other strong brands such as Actimove, Cutimed, JOBST, Knix, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Modibodi, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, TOM Organic and Zewa are sold in 150 countries. I In 2024, Essity had net sales of approximately SEK 146bn (EUR 13bn) and employed 36,000 people. We are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
If you want to join a company where dedication to people is powered by innovation, welcome to Essity!
