Engineering Manager

BSW Timber; Cargo; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading timber and forestry company in Cargo, UK is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers. Responsibilities include managing production practices, enhancing efficiency, and maintaining safety standards. The ideal candidate will have an HND/degree and a strong background in manufacturing engineering, along with excellent communication and people management skills. This role offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Benefits

Group Personal Pension Plan

Individual training and development

Long-term growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven people management skills.
• Experience in manufacturing engineering.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing tools and change management.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work logically and resolve maintenance issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers to ensure sustainable production practices.
• Manage servicing plans for site production.
• Maximize plant efficiencies and minimize downtime.
• Control budgets and efficiently use materials.
• Uphold Health & Safety standards.

Skills

People management skills

Communication skills

Lean manufacturing tools

Analytical skills

Education

HND/degree qualification

Tools

Microsoft products

Job description

• Based BSW Sawmills Ltd, Cargo, Carlisle, CA6 4BA
• £Competitive + Excellent Benefits
  
  

Reporting to the Mill Manager and working alongside the mill management team and key group

personnel, you’ll lead and motivate a team of multi-disciplined engineers, ensuring sustainable

production engineering practices and standardisation of engineering procedures.

Capable of fostering an environment of continuous improvement and introducing modern

manufacturing techniques to increase efficiency, improve quality and enhance safety, your role

will also involve maintaining a robust maintenance schedule and supporting the project team

with commissioning of the new equipment.

Specifically, some responsibilities of an Engineering Manager include:

• Manage and monitor servicing plans to meet the requirements of site production managers.
• Ensure plant efficiencies and performance are maximized, downtime minimized and make best use of silent hours.
• Manage systems of priorities to guide the supervisor(s)/team leaders in organising workload.
• Control spending within set budgets, ensuring the efficient use of purchased materials and that engineering stores are adequately stocked.
• Uphold rigorous Health & Safety standards, ensuring employees are working safely, in a clean and hazard free environment & enforcing the correct use of PPE.
• Hands on approach to leadership and continuously develop team members and apprentices in line with training plans and training matrix.
  
  

About you:

To succeed in this exciting and progressive role, we are looking for a motivated and organised individual with proven people management skills.

In addition, you will: -

• Be HND/degree qualified.
• Have a strong track record in manufacturing engineering.
• Gained good working knowledge of lean manufacturing tools and principles, and direct experience of change management.
• Have outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Hold excellent computer skills across all Microsoft products.
• Have high influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Can work in a logical/analytical manner, quickly responding to and resolving any maintenance issues that arise.
  
  

Our Offer:

• Excellent salary and benefits.
• Group Personal Pension Plan.
• Individual training and development to provide best possible chance of success.
• Long-term opportunity to grow within an internationally successful, family-owned group of companies.
  
  

Who we are:

BSW Group is the largest timber and forestry business in the UK, with operating divisions spanning the whole supply chain, from tree nurseries and woodland management to sawmilling and pallets.

We market 35 million saplings annually through the country’s leading commercial tree nursery, have planted a billion trees through Tilhill Forestry, supply sustainable timber products to an array of industries as BSW Timber, and manufacture millions of pallets a year as Scott Pallets. We work to keep industry moving and aim to be the most technically advanced timber business in the country.

BSW operates as a collection of experts - an interconnected circle, where everyone and everything works together, allowing the business to constantly innovate as our people thrive.

With an ethos to use everything and waste nothing, we leverage technology and cutting-edge practices to supply the diverse demands of the UK, helping to build sustainable worlds.

Interested? Click APPLY to be directed to our careers portal.

Closing date - 31 August 2025

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