Engineering Manager

TN United Kingdom; Widnes; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead site engineering efforts in a dynamic and innovative environment. This pivotal role involves developing maintenance strategies, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The successful candidate will possess strong leadership skills and a proven track record in engineering management within a regulated manufacturing setting. Join a forward-thinking company that values individual contributions and offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Site bonus scheme

Company pension scheme

Generous annual holiday entitlement

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven senior Engineering Management experience in regulated manufacturing.
• Strong decision maker with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering team to meet maintenance and CAPEX objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance operational efficiency.

Skills

Engineering Management

Stakeholder Management

Continuous Improvement

Problem Solving

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Education

Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Mechanical)

Tools

MS Office

SAP

Job description

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As a key part of the site management team of BYK UK, the role reports to the Site Operations Manager.

This site-based position is responsible for leading and shaping site engineering to meet production, maintenance and CAPEX objectives whilst providing support to other site functions and liaising with external stakeholders where accomplished stakeholder management skills is a must.

This role demands professional engineering management capabilities, strong leadership and team management skills. It involves making decisions and the ability to understand complex situations, simplifying and shaping solutions providing clarity to others.

This role will initially focus on a critical evaluation of the status quo, developing and delivering a cost-effective and efficient maintenance strategy fit for now and in the future.

Role modelling behaviours from the front, the Engineering Manager will drive the highest standards of environment, health & safety and quality standards ensuring compliance and legal obligations are met.

Ensuring compliance with company policies & procedures and a focus on continuous improvement, training and innovation to align with site objectives is also a key part of this role

We invite you to get to know us better and to discover your own personal special side of life. Please send us your application, preferably via our job market www.altana.jobs. For further information, please contact:

Marilyn Sedman, HR Advisor, BYK Additives Ltd. Tel [phone].

For further information on the company, visit our website at

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Development and delivery of the current and future site engineering maintenance strategy including Facilities management
• Highest standards of environment, health & safety and quality, ensuring compliance, robust change management and legal obligations
• Lead the engineering team to meet maintenance and CAPEX objectives whilst providing support to other site functions and achieving site performance standards
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance operational efficiency, achieving right first time KPIs.
• Oversee asset maintenance and development with a key focus on preventative maintenance definition, execution and condition monitoring to ensure the necessary asset availability for completion of the production schedule
• Implement maintenance strategies and Failure Mode Effects Analyses (FMEA) to provide the foundations for the necessary focus across the different plant areas, subject to regular review in light of changing business circumstances.
• Management of minor and maintenance projects liasing closely with stakeholders
• Delivering budget in terms of OPEX and CAPEX, understanding variances and delivery of forecast and LRP process in area of responsibility
• In conjunction with the Senior Management Team, define and manage organisational processes and improvements ensuring roles, responsibilities and expectations are understood whilst ensuring a robust succession and training plan is in place
• Provide mentoring and identify professional development opportunities for the team.
• Promote Altana values and Leadership principles across the site

Required / Essential Qualifications, Experience and Attributes

• Degree qualified in an Engineering discipline e.g. Electrical or Mechanical.
• Proven senior Engineering Management experience, gained in a fast paced, regulated manufacturing environment
• Experience of successfully managing significant change/transformation projects within a manufacturing environment
• Experience of Lean and continuous improvement methodologies e.g. Six Sigma, Kaizen etc.
• Knowledge of maintenance strategy and FMEA routine development and review
• Familiarity with routine condition monitoring and alignment activity as part of the maintenance baseline function.
• Detailed knowledge of H&S Systems including Permit to Work, Management of Change, Risk Assessment and delivering compliance
• Knowledge and experience of budget preparation and control
• Development of asset improvement plans and associated capital expenditure proposals.
• A self-starter with proactive, positive leadership and employee engagement skills to create a positive & fulfilling work environment and ensure alignment with the safety culture throughout the organization
• Assertive problem-solver able to identify gaps and define effective solutions
• Analytical and structured approach
• Attention to detail and challenging by nature.
• Strong decision maker and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Office. Knowledgeable on data generation, visibility and promotion of digitalisation

Desirable qualifications and experience

• Knowledge of SAP
• Experience of layered auditing and reporting.
• Accident and Incident Investigation and root cause analyses

Our Plus

In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction.

BYK Additives UK Ltd offers you a lot of advantages. They include the opportunity to work within a dynamic team in a successful business, a competitive salary and benefits package, the participation in site bonus scheme and the company pension scheme after a qualifying period, generous annual holiday entitlement as well as excellent development opportunities.

Job number:
AW00290

Legal entity:
BYK Additives Ltd. (UK)

About us

We are ALTANA: one group of companies – four divisions: BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA. Global leader in specialty chemicals with over 6,700 employees, sales of around 2.7 billion euros, and myriad opportunities for you to develop and grow. Would you like to enrich your life with this decisive plus?

BYK, as part of the ALTANA Group, is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals. Our innovative BYK additives improve scratch resistance and surface gloss, the mechanical strength or flow behaviour of materials, and properties such as UV-and light stability or flame retardancy. BYK has a global network of subsidiaries and employs a workforce of more than 2,500 people worldwide.

BYK Additives Limited based in Widnes is a leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals, supplying additives to the coatings, consumer care, oil field and other specialty markets. The site has been the home of inorganic chemical manufacture since 1923 and has been part of the BYK Division of ALTANA AG, a privately owned speciality chemicals company, since 2013.

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ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.