Maintenance Manager – Casalpusterlengo, Italy

Our Casalpusterlengo site focuses on refractory bricks and castables, supporting customers who rely on high-performing products and reliable manufacturing.

This role sits at the heart of the operation. You'll lead the maintenance function, keep critical equipment running at its best, and help shape the future of a highly automated manufacturing site. It's a hands-on leadership role where you'll have the scope to improve systems, develop people, and make a visible impact on plant performance.

As Maintenance Manager, you'll take ownership of maintenance across production equipment, utilities, and site facilities. You'll lead a team of maintenance professionals, coordinate external contractors, and ensure the plant operates safely, efficiently, and with minimal downtime.

You'll balance day-to-day operational demands with longer-term improvement projects, helping the site increase reliability, reduce costs, and support future growth.

Lead all maintenance activities across production equipment, utilities, and plant facilities

Run preventive, corrective, and breakdown maintenance programmes

Manage and develop a team of mechanical and electrical maintenance technicians

Coordinate external contractors and ensure work is completed safely and effectively

Monitor equipment performance and investigate recurring reliability issues

Drive continuous improvement initiatives that improve uptime, efficiency, and operational performance

Manage spare parts availability and oversee warehouse inventory

Control the maintenance budget and identify opportunities to optimise costs

Ensure compliance with health, safety, and company standards

Prepare maintenance reports and performance metrics

Support the selection, specification, and commissioning of new equipment

Contribute to training programmes that promote best maintenance practices and effective machine operation

Experience in a Maintenance Manager or similar leadership role within an industrial manufacturing environment





Strong technical knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems

Proven experience leading and developing maintenance teams

The ability to make sound decisions under pressure and deal with unexpected equipment failures (and live to tell the tale)

Good understanding of occupational health and safety requirements

Comfortable using maintenance systems, reports, and digital tools

Experience working with contractors, suppliers, and spare parts management

A Bachelor’s / Masters’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering is preferred, particularly with proven experience in electrical systems. Candidates with a Technical’ diploma may also be considered if they possess relevant industry and electrical experience.

Good English skills

Experience working with highly automated production equipment

A chance to own the maintenance function at a modern, well-equipped site with plenty of room for technical and organisational improvements. You’ll work with an experienced Technical Manager and a committed local team, with the stability and benefits that come with being part of a global industrial organisation.

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

The Thermal Ceramics

division designs, manufactures and installs a broad range of thermal insulation products that significantly reduce energy consumption and emissions in a variety of high temperature processing applications. Our product offering is extensive and covers application needs from Industrial to Commercial markets.

Revenue £1,100.7m (2024), ~8,000 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK. Listed on London Stock Exchange;

📌 Maintenance &technical manager (Casalpusterlengo)
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