Engineering Manager

Job Description

Exciting New Opportunity: Engineering Manager – Brand-New Role!

Are you ready to take on a brand-new, high-impact leadership role? We are seeking a dynamic Engineering Manager to lead our site engineering function, ensuring peak efficiency, compliance, and safety while driving continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity to make your mark in a newly created position, shaping the future of engineering excellence in our fast-paced environment.

As part of our ongoing growth and commitment to operational excellence, this brand-new headcount will be instrumental in executing a strategy that enhances reliability, optimizes lifecycle costs, and supports the production of high-quality products delivered on time and in full.

A unique opportunity to define and lead a fresh engineering strategy offering exciting challenges while being at the forefront of asset optimisation and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead, develop, and mentor the engineering team, fostering a high-performance and accountable culture.
2. Ensure all production and packing assets operate at peak efficiency, maintaining consistent quality and throughput.
3. Implement and execute an Asset Care strategy to optimize machine uptime and efficiency.
4. Drive a proactive safety culture, ensuring compliance with all engineering regulations and standards.
5. Monitor and reduce downtime through preventative and predictive maintenance, leveraging data-driven decision-making and root cause analysis (RCA).
6. Work cross-functionally with production and technical teams to drive continuous improvement and collaboration.
7. Manage the Repairs and Maintenance budget, ensuring cost-effective asset management and CAPEX project success.

What We’re Looking For:

1. Degree or time-served qualification in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, or related discipline).
2. Proven leadership in an engineering management role within food manufacturing or FMCG.
3. Strong understanding of asset care methodologies (TPM, PPM, reliability-centred maintenance).
4. Knowledge of compliance requirements (PUWER, LOLER, PSSR, BRCGS, Health & Safety regulations).
5. IOSH or NEBOSH qualification.
6. Financial acumen with experience in managing budgets and cost controls.
7. Change driver – ability to influence stakeholders and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
8. Experience in managing small capital projects, including commissioning and integration.
9. Strong problem-solving skills, lean manufacturing knowledge, and CI methodologies.

This is not just another Engineering Manager role – it’s a chance to be a key player in a growing and evolving business. If you thrive on challenge, innovation, and making a real difference, we want to hear from you!

Why Join Us?

1. 31 Days holiday per year including bank holidays.
2. Great Place to Work accredited.
3. Salary sacrifice pension scheme available.
4. Cinema and Sky Store discounts.
5. Supermarket & other retailer discounts.
6. Health Cash Plan.
7. Holiday discounts.
8. Life assurance & income protection.
9. Employee referral scheme.
10. Employee Assistant Programme.
11. Cycle to Work.
12. Eyecare contributions.
13. Electric car salary sacrifice scheme.
14. Learning, development, and training opportunities including mentoring.
15. Regular social and charity events.
16. Engagement in local community & early careers events.
17. Onsite health checks & annual flu jabs.
18. Regular wellbeing sessions.

We politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.