Engineering Manager – Asset Reliability & Safety Lead

Biffa Group; Aldridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Professional development

IET partnership

Autonomy and trust

Career progression

Job summary

Biffa, the UK's leader in the circular economy, is recruiting an Engineering Manager at Aldridge PRF to own site engineering performance, develop people, embed standards and influence safety, reliability and cost.

Reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you will lead the onsite engineering team, drive preventative maintenance with PM compliance above 95%, manage contractors and contribute to CAPEX planning, balancing short-term uptime with long-term asset health.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering or maintenance management experience.
• Strong H&S leadership in an industrial environment.
• Coaching and developmental leadership style.
• Commercial awareness with understanding of OPEX and CAPEX.
• Confident communicator at all levels.
• Structured, calm and decisive.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team, fostering accountability and high performance.
• Create, embed and maintain a strong safety culture, ensuring full compliance with all engineering and H&S standards.
• Drive asset reliability through effective preventative maintenance, maintaining PM compliance consistently above 95%.
• Reduce breakdowns and reactive maintenance, improving overall plant availability and site performance.
• Manage contractors effectively, ensuring safe systems of work and quality delivery.
• Carry out Root Cause Analysis and implement sustainable, long-term engineering solutions.
• Plan, execute and continuously improve shutdown activities to minimise downtime and risk.
• Take ownership of engineering OPEX, contribute to CAPEX planning, embed engineering standards, and ensure best practice is consistently applied.

Skills

Leadership

H&S leadership

Coaching

Communication

OPEX & CAPEX

Structured & decisive

Job description

Biffa, the UK's leader in the circular economy, is recruiting an Engineering Manager at Aldridge PRF to own site engineering performance, develop people, embed standards and influence safety, reliability and cost.

Reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you will lead the onsite engineering team, drive preventative maintenance with PM compliance above 95%, manage contractors and contribute to CAPEX planning, balancing short-term uptime with long-term asset health.