Engineering Manager - Enstone

AB Agri Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural company in the UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers at their Enstone site. This role involves ensuring compliance, managing maintenance activities, and overseeing budgets while promoting a safe and effective team culture. The ideal candidate will have substantial engineering qualifications and experience in process-related manufacturing, offering a robust salary plus benefits including a discretionary bonus and pension contributions.

Benefits

Discretionary performance-related bonus

Matched pension contribution up to 10%

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing and developing engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of feed milling or related manufacturing processes.
• Ability to provide out-of-hours support and hands-on maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers focusing on compliance and performance.
• Coordinate maintenance activities to ensure equipment reliability.
• Manage engineering budgets and contribute to project planning.

Skills

Team leadership

Electrical engineering focus

Continuous Improvement techniques

Education

HND/HNC, BTEC or NVQ Engineering qualification

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Enstone, Oxfordshire, UK

Contract and Shift details: Permanent – Monday – Friday 37.5 hrs per week (Flexibility is required)

Package includes Salary from £60,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.

Are you an experienced and hands‑on Engineering Manager? We are looking for someone with a strong history of managing and developing a team.

Responsibilities:

• Leading and developing a team of 4 engineers & providing direct guidance and support to ensure legal compliance, plant availability and performance.
• Bring an electrical focus to the role, strengthening team capability and closing identified skills gaps.
• Lead and coordinate both proactive (planned preventative) and reactive maintenance activities to ensure equipment reliability and minimise downtime across all sites.
• Financial control and responsibility for Engineering resource, R&M budget, HS&E, buildings and maintenance – Support the Ops manager in the monthly budget review process.
• Contribute to budget development, 3‑year Capital project plans, Improvement projects too, proposing solutions for potential savings or process optimisation plans as well as looking at ways to improve overall site performance.

About you:

• A safety and quality first mindset to provide leadership to their team and support for the wider site team, with proven positive impact through effective teamworking, communication and leadership.
• Multi‑skilled Engineer with solid direct experience and qualifications too, preferably HND/HNC, BTEC or NVQ Engineering qualification mechanical or electrical.
• Previous experience in Feed Milling, Flour Milling or other process related manufacturing / Boiler governance and controls, Governance and control of engineering/site risks and hazards.
• Understanding how and when to apply the right Continuous Improvement tools and techniques.
• Provide regular out‑of‑hours support and adopt a hands‑on approach to maintenance and engineering activities, ensuring the team can deliver reliable performance across a 24/7 operation.

Location

This role is based at our Enstone site in the heart of the Cotswolds, with occasional off‑site development and training opportunities at our Peterborough head office and or other sites within the business.

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

We’re AB Agri part 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. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the office, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

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.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

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.