Engineering Manager (6 months FTC)

AB Agri Ltd; Walsingham; Remote; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

AB Agri Ltd in Walsingham (Norfolk) is seeking an Engineering Manager for a 6‑month fixed‑term, full‑time role (37.5 hours/week). You’ll lead the site engineering team, drive a shift to planned maintenance, and ensure compliance with engineering standards.

Starting salary from £60,000 with a performance bonus, a comprehensive benefits package, and up to 10% matched pension. Visa sponsorship is not offered. This hands-on leadership role requires close collaboration with site leaders.

Qualifications

• Engineering leadership experience in manufacturing or similar site
• Hands-on, practical leadership style with strong team engagement
• Experience moving from reactive to planned maintenance
• Strong understanding of compliance, safety, and engineering standards
• Strong problem-solving and prioritisation abilities

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the site engineering team, staying visible and hands-on
• Drive a shift to preventative maintenance and improve equipment reliability
• Ensure compliance with engineering standards and statutory requirements
• Build maintenance plans and support capital investment priorities
• Work closely with operations to improve overall site performance

Skills

Engineering leadership

Hands-on leadership

Maintenance optimization

Compliance & safety

Problem-solving

Prioritisation

Team engagement

Planning & budgeting

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Walsingham, Norfolk, UK

Contract & Hours – 6 months Fixed-term contract, Full Time, 37.5 hours per week – Monday – Friday

Package includes a starting salary from £60,000 a performance related bonus scheme, a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.

Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

You’ll lead engineering at our Walsingham site, improving reliability, ensuring compliance, and moving the team from reactive fixes to a more planned, preventative way of working. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you’ll work closely with your team and site leaders to strengthen performance and shape the future of engineering.

What you’ll do

• Lead and develop the site engineering team, staying visible and hands‑on
• Drive a shift to preventative maintenance and improve equipment reliability
• Ensure compliance with engineering standards and statutory requirements
• Build maintenance plans and support capital investment priorities
• Work closely with operations to improve overall site performance

What we’re looking for

• Engineering leadership experience in manufacturing or a similar site environment
• A hands‑on, practical leadership style with strong team engagement
• Experience improving maintenance and moving from reactive to planned approaches
• Good understanding of compliance, safety, and engineering standards
• Strong problem‑solving and the ability to prioritise effectively

Nice to have

• Experience in feed, food, agriculture, or process industries
• BOAS or BOAS-M (desirable, not essential)

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it.From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family‑owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology‑based products, and offering data services for the agri‑food industry.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Agencies and media sales

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