Engineering Manager: Lead Safety, Reliability & Growth

Biffa Group; Aldridge; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Autonomy

Career progression

IET membership paid

Generous pension

Job summary

Biffa Group is seeking an Engineering Manager for Aldridge PRF to own the safe, reliable, and cost-effective performance of site assets. You will lead the onsite engineering team, embed best-practice maintenance standards, and partner with Operations to drive uptime.

Reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, this role requires ownership, disciplined leadership and a focus on long-term asset health, with opportunities for progression and professional qualifications.

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 mgmt

H&S leadership

Coaching leadership

Commercial awareness

Strong communicator

Decision making

Job description

Biffa Group is seeking an Engineering Manager for Aldridge PRF to own the safe, reliable, and cost-effective performance of site assets. You will lead the onsite engineering team, embed best-practice maintenance standards, and partner with Operations to drive uptime.

Reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, this role requires ownership, disciplined leadership and a focus on long-term asset health, with opportunities for progression and professional qualifications.