Engineering Manager

ALBERT BARTLETT; Airdrie; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK food industry, Albert Bartlett, seeks an Engineering Manager to enhance their engineering processes and maintain a world-class service. The role involves developing a strong maintenance culture, ensuring health & safety compliance, and leading a dedicated team to optimize efficiency within chilled food manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Chilled food manufacturing.
• Ability to develop and interrogate financial data.
• Demonstrate a commitment to personal and role development.

Responsibilities

• Develop a focused maintenance culture in the Chilled manufacturing function.
• Ensure a risk-based culture leading to a safety-first mindset.
• Monitor and ensure standards across the engineering team.

Skills

Leadership

Self-motivation

Communication

Flexibility

Education

Time Served Engineer

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Description

Location: Albert Bartlett & Sons, 251 Stirling Road

The Engineering Managers role will be to develop their team, processes, procedures and systems to give a world class engineering service. Delivering a service that promotes a H&S culture & delivering a maintenance service that provides an efficient manufacturing environment

Duties & Responsibilities

Develop a focussed maintenance culture across the Chilled manufacturing function on site, by delivering:

• A detailed PPM system that includes
• Time Based Maintenance
• FMEA
• Risk Based Maintenance
• Condition Based Maintenance
• Predictive Maintenance
  
  

Deliver a World Class Health & Safety Culture By

• Understanding statutory obligations and ensuring they are completed in a timely and satisfactory manner
• Ensuring there is a risk based culture to the tasks undertaken
• Culture change leading to a safety first mindset
• Developing departmental systems that promote H&S and deliver workable H&S processes
• Deliver The Financial Controls To
• Ensure stores stocks are managed via a risk based assessment
• Deliver departmental spending to agreed budgets
• Promote engineering incentives that contribute to delivering savings within the business
• Ensure we buy at best price or best value
  
  

Develop People to

• Ensure we have the correct shift patterns that minimise cost but deliver maximum efficiency
• Develop a costed departmental training matrix that delivers H&S requirements, business needs, personal development and departmental contribution
• Set up and deliver structured communications through 1 to 1’s, departmental meetings
• Monitor the engineering team to ensure they are delivering the principles you set out to deliver
• Ensure standards are department wide and not just the Team Leader standards
• Do things right even when no one is there
  
  

Improve Departmental Development By

• Setting up Hi 5’s Across the department through the Team Leaders reviewing on a regular basis
• Communicating across all functions within the business
• Becoming a key member of the Chilled manufacturing team on site
• Moving to a 1 team culture across Chilled
  
  

Requirements

About The Role

• Familiarity of Chilled food manufacturing
• Familiarity of Chilled pack food manufacturing
• Ability to develop and interrogate CMMS
• Ability to utilise Microsoft office
• Ability to interrogate financial data
• Ability to write & deliver reports
• Time Served Engineer
• Demonstrate individual drive & commitment
• Demonstrate leadership abilities
• Demonstrate a personal commitment to want to develop the role and themselves
• Demonstrate an ability to communicate at all levels within the business
• Demonstrate self-motivation and the ability to motivate others
• Flexibility in your approach to work to deliver & support business needs
  
  

Skills Needed

About The Company

Now a fourth-generation family business, we're proud of our history and the legacy that Albert Bartlett left us. Our story began in 1948, when Albert started selling good-quality produce by setting up a beetroot-boiling operation in Coatbridge, Scotland. Today, we're one of the leading food businesses in the UK, delighting families with tasty Fresh, Chilled and Frozen products. Proudly still a family-owned and operated business, and we remain committed to Albert's spirit of innovation and passion for quality. We're also committed to sourcing potatoes for our long-standing network of growers across the UK, spanning from the Black Isle to Jersey. We have a wide and experienced team and are excited to continue growing and creating great tasting products for our customers and exciting futures for our people.

Company Culture

Over 75 years since Albert started the business, we remain proudly independent with the fourth generation of the Bartlett family leading us to success.

Our headquarters are in Airdrie, only four miles or so from our founder’s original business. Albert Bartlett is the No.1 Fresh and Chilled potato brand in the UK and a growing range in Frozen category. We are renowned for quality and expertise across all our categories and have a passion for UK produce. We aim to be an innovative and improving company that exceeds our customers' expectations while operating in an environmentally responsible and sustainable way. Today, we proudly supply potatoes from our network of farmers and growers across England, Norther Ireland, Scotland and Jersey.

Desired Criteria

Required Criteria

Closing DateWednesday 30th July, 2025

Contract Typefulltime

SalaryBased on Experience