Engineering Shift Supervisor

Bakkavor Group; England; On-site; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company in the UK is seeking an Engineering Shift Supervisor to join their team in Nantwich, Cheshire. The role includes managing the engineering team to optimize plant availability and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. Ideal candidates will have strong people management skills, mechanical or electrical engineering qualifications, and experience with maintenance. This position offers competitive pay, benefits including a pension scheme, and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

Stakeholder pension scheme

Free independent mortgage advice

Employee assistance programme

Holiday purchase scheme

Additional life assurance

Qualifications

• Experience in both reactive and planned maintenance activity.
• Ability to manage an engineering team and deliver scheduled work.

Responsibilities

• Manage the engineering team for optimal plant availability.
• Implement training and development for engineering needs.
• Minimize engineering downtime and monitor repair time.
• Log stock in and out of stores and manage issues.
• Maintain hygiene standards in a food manufacturing environment.

Skills

Strong people management experience

Multi-skilled background in maintenance

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Understanding of mechanical and electrical systems

Good IT skills including Word, Excel, and Outlook

Education

Professional mechanical or electrical engineering qualifications

Job description

Engineering Shift Supervisor

We drive our own success

4 on 4 off, rotating 06 : 00 - 18 : 00 / 18 : 00 - 06 : 00

£60,000 per annum

£1,500 - Signing on Bonus (Terms and Conditions apply)

Nantwich, Cheshire

Site based

Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Why join us?

We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fuelling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realise their potential and build a brilliant future for themselves at Bakkavor.

About the role

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Engineering Shift Supervisor to join the busy and active team at our food manufacturing facility in Nantwich, Cheshire. You will help maintain, install and improve the performance of processing equipment across the site. The site makes chilled speciality hand‑crafted flatbreads, baguettes, doughballs and ciabattas for customers including Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsburys.

Accountabilities

• Manage the engineering team to ensure delivery of scheduled work and reactive work so that plant availability is optimised and manage technical specifications for ingredients, products, processes & packaging
• Implement agreed training & development plans to meet engineering & production needs. Comply with statutory & Bakkavor Health & Safety requirement, ensures reports work in a safe manner. This will include ownership of dynamic risk assessment process
• Ensure engineering downtime is minimised, accurately logged, and monitor the repair time. Liaise with planning and operations team to allow for PPM to be completed in a timely manner
• Ensure all stock is logged in and out of the stores area highlighting any stock issues to the engineering team manager
• To maintain standards of hygiene and good housekeeping appropriate to a quality food manufacturer. GMP standard of workshops and engineers tool boxes is maintained at a high level

Qualifications

• Strong people management experience
• A multi‑skilled background – experience completing both reactive and planned maintenance activity and small installations
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal
• Appropriate professional mechanical or electrical engineering qualifications and training
• Thorough understanding of common mechanical and electrical systems
• Professional attitude with plenty of drive and enthusiasm
• Good IT skills including Word, Excel and Outlook

Benefits

• A stakeholder pension scheme
• Personal accident Insurance
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Employee assistance programme
• A range of voluntary benefits
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Additional life assurance
• Dental & hospital cash plans
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools
• Affordable loans via your salary
• Proud to be and loyal service awards

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions Proud to be Bakkavor.

Company Overview

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

At Bakkavor, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and we believe that diversity makes us stronger. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and ensure fair, transparent recruitment practices. Learn more about our commitment in our Inclusion and Diversity Policy ( Inclusion & Diversity Policy ).

Equal Opportunity Statement

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

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