Engineering Manager: Asset Reliability & Safety Lead

Biffa Group; Shelfield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Structured progression

IET corporate partnership

Generous pension

Job summary

Biffa Group is seeking an Engineering Manager to own the safe, reliable and cost‑effective performance of all site assets at Aldridge PRF. You will lead and develop the onsite engineering team, embed best‑practice maintenance standards, and ensure engineering is a trusted partner to Operations.

Sitting in the site leadership team and reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you will drive uptime with discipline and clarity, balance short‑term reliability with long‑term asset health, and

Qualifications

• Proven engineering or maintenance management experience.
• Strong H&S leadership in an industrial environment.
• Coaching and developmental leadership style.
• Commercially aware 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

Engineering management

HSE leadership

Coaching leadership

OPEX & CAPEX awareness

Effective communication

Structured decision making

Job description

Biffa Group is seeking an Engineering Manager to own the safe, reliable and cost‑effective performance of all site assets at Aldridge PRF. You will lead and develop the onsite engineering team, embed best‑practice maintenance standards, and ensure engineering is a trusted partner to Operations.

Sitting in the site leadership team and reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you will drive uptime with discipline and clarity, balance short‑term reliability with long‑term asset health, and