Engineering Team Leader
A.G. Barr
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Job summary
AG Barr is seeking an Engineering Team Leader in Milton Keynes to drive shift performance and build a safe, high-performing engineering culture. You will coordinate maintenance activities, lead RCA/MBR processes, and champion continuous improvement across the site.
You will mentor technicians, manage daily handovers, and push for optimal reliability and equipment availability in a fast-paced FMCG environment. This role requires 3 on 3 off days/nights shift flexibility.
Qualifications
- Engineering leadership experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment (FMCG / Food & Beverage preferred).
- HNC / ONC in Mechanical, Electrical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering.
- Experience using RCA and post-breakdown documentation (MBRs).
- Strong understanding of health and safety regulations with emphasis on safe working practices.
- Experience using Leader Standard Work (LSW) and leading shift/engineering meetings.
- Knowledge of reliability standards (ISO 9001, ISO 55000) and methodologies like FMEA, RCM, and FTA.
- Experience with CMMS and Google tools.
- Ability to operate in a multi-skilled engineering environment and contribute to cross-functional management.
Responsibilities
- Lead safety-first shift culture and ensure compliance with site safety standards.
- Maximise OEE on high-speed filling lines and reduce MTTR through proactive maintenance.
- Drive team morale, clear communication, and engagement on shift.
- Set and monitor quarterly team priorities and performance.
- Conduct regular 1-to-1s and support development with PDPs.
- Own RCA and Major Breakdown Reports for sustainable fixes.
- Oversee daily shift handovers, plan work orders, and drive efficiency.
- Perform Leader Standard Work tasks and ensure audits and standards are met.
- Lead site-wide continuous improvement under Brilliance in the Making framework.
- Provide practical technical guidance during critical issues and support escalation.
- Coach technicians, recruit for the shift, and implement structured training plans.
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Job description
Job Title: Engineering Team Leader
Location: Milton Keynes
Contract and working pattern: 3 on 3 off Days and Nights
Are you ready to Be Your Best Barr None?
Lets Grow!!!
We are all about Being Your Best Barr None and having a career with real Moments that Matter!
Employing around 850 people across the UK, we are proud to be a responsible business that takes care of our people, values diversity, gives something back to our communities and works to minimise our environmental impact.
For 150 years AG Barr has been building great brands and is home to some of the nations favourite flavours.
At our core is IRN-BRU, launched in 1901 and still going strong today, the vibrant RUBICON fruit based brand, Boost making every moment better with a caffeine kick, hydration hit or tasty treat, and FUNKIN where real fruit means authentic taste.
We also have a number of exciting owned brands within our portfolio including MOMA, which crafts quality oats into great tasting oat drinks and porridges.
There's never been a better time to join us!
We’re looking for an Engineering Team Leader, where your mission is to drive shift performance and build a safe, high-performing engineering culture. While practical support may be needed during critical escalations, your primary focus is leadership. You will coordinate day-to-day maintenance activities, ensuring the maximum effectiveness of your team to drive plant reliability and performance. Furthermore, you will own the post-breakdown resolution process, following up with robust, '100-year fixes' to completely eliminate recurring faults, and champion continuous improvement across the site.
- Safety First: Champion a robust safety culture on shift, ensuring all engineering duties, tasks, and contractor activities adhere strictly to site safety, and hygiene standards. Safety is always the number 1 priority.
- Asset Performance: Lead the shift team to maximize OEE on high-speed filling lines, focusing on swift breakdown resolution (MTTR reduction), proactive fault elimination, and robust execution of both Corrective and Preventative Maintenance schedules.
- Team Leadership & Morale: Drive, motivate, and empower your shift team. Foster high team morale, clear communication, and strong engagement across the shift.
- Performance Management: Set clear expectations and quarterly priorities for the team.
- Manage day-to-day team performance, conduct regular 1-to-1s, and support individual development using AG Barr's performance management framework.
- Breakdown Resolution: Take ownership of major equipment failures by leading Root cause Analysis (RCA) and completing Major Breakdown Reports (MBRs), ensuring sustainable corrective actions are executed to prevent recurrence.
- Operational Execution & Handovers: Lead the daily engineering shift handover and morning meetings. Coordinate shift activities, allocate work orders, and drive efficiency and site performance while on shift.
- Leader Standard Work (LSW): Rigorously carry out Leader Standard Work tasks, ensuring engineering routines, audits, work order reviews, and operational standards are consistently met.
- Continuous Improvement: Champion site-wide continuous improvement through AG Barr’s operational excellence framework 'Brilliance in the Making', leveraging data-driven insights and downtime analysis to maximize equipment reliability and elevate OEE performance.
- Technical Support & Escalation: Step in with practical technical guidance or brief hands‑on troubleshooting when critical equipment issues require it, acting as the technical authority for shift escalation Engineering Team Leadership & Development
- Talent and Skill Development: Coach and empower your technicians to maximize team capability. You will actively build the shift's skillset by leading engineering recruitment, identifying skill gaps, and delivering structured training plans and PDPs to nurture top talent.
- Leadership & People Management: Proven experience leading and developing an engineering team within a fast-paced manufacturing environment (FMCG / Food & Beverage preferred).
- Technical Qualification: Minimum HNC / ONC (or equivalent) in Mechanical, Electrical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering.
- Breakdown & Problem-Solving Expertise: Strong experience using structured problem‑solving methodologies, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and generating detailed post‑breakdown documentation (MBRs).
- Safety Mindset: Strong understanding of health and safety regulations (Nebosh / IOSH Managing safety qualification is desirable) with an unwavering commitment to safe working practices.
- Operational Drive: Experience using Leader Standard Work (LSW), leading dailyshift/engineering meetings, and driving shift performance against targets/KPIs.
- Flexibility: Fully comfortable working a 3 on 3 off rotating days and nights shift pattern
- Proven track record of operating at engineering leadership level within a food manufacturing environment or FMCG
- Familiarity with reliability standards (e.g., ISO 9001, ISO 55000) and methodologies such as FMEA, RCM, and FTA.
- Experience and understanding of Google and CMMS.
- Experience working in a multi-skilled engineering environment
- Experience of contributing to a multi-functional operational management team
We believe in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where your voice can be heard. Our skilled, loyal and committed people are critical to the future success of AG Barr which is why we are continually investing in our employees to develop their talent.
We look after our employees by offering a competitive salary and benefits package which includes;
- Up to 34 days holiday (depending on shift pattern)
- Flexible holiday trading
- Living Wage Employer
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Peppy Health
- Flexible benefits e.g. discounts & cashback, gym memberships, technology purchases etc
- Life assurance
- Save as you earn scheme
- Staff sales discount
- Free AG Barr products throughout your working day
- Pension
- Annual salary review
- Ongoing professional development
And much more!
To find out more about what it is like to work for AG Barr, please visit our careers platform here.
We are an equal opportunities employer and happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that may be needed for successful candidates with a disability, health or mental health condition.
Our large factories produce multi formats across a number of high speed modern lines, to high quality standards whilst maximising production outputs and minimising overhead costs and whilst we have highlighted our ideal requirements for this role, we are realistic that the successful candidate probably won't meet every single requirement in this advert, but we are big advocates of people growing in role. So even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to submit an application - you may be just what we are looking for!
Latest closing date for applications is 1st October
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