Engineering Manager: Drive Site Asset Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Autonomy & trust

Clear progression

IET partnership

Generous pension

Job summary

Biffa Group in the United Kingdom is seeking an Engineering Manager to own site assets, drive safety and reliability, and balance uptime with long-term asset health.

You will lead the onsite engineering team at Aldridge PRF, embed maintenance standards, and partner with Operations to deliver cost-effective performance. Reporting to Regional Engineering Manager, you’ll shape site performance and accountability.

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

Safety leadership

People development

OPEX and CAPEX

Effective communicator

Structured decision making

Job description

Biffa Group in the United Kingdom is seeking an Engineering Manager to own site assets, drive safety and reliability, and balance uptime with long-term asset health.

You will lead the onsite engineering team at Aldridge PRF, embed maintenance standards, and partner with Operations to deliver cost-effective performance. Reporting to Regional Engineering Manager, you’ll shape site performance and accountability.