Engineering Team Leader- Nights

Hilton Food Group; Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free car parking on site

Life assurance 2x salary

Paid overtime

Development opportunities and internal

Job summary

Hilton Food Group in Grimsby is seeking an Engineering Team Leader to oversee night shift maintenance and drive reliability for production lines. You will lead a small night team, coach engineers, and manage contractor activity while maintaining food safety and safety standards.

The role emphasizes hands-on problem solving, prioritising breakdowns, and delivering timely maintenance with a focus on KPI-driven improvements and team development.

Qualifications

• Experience in FMCG/manufacturing environment.
• Specific equipment knowledge preferred.
• IOSH Trained preferable.
• Time Served apprenticeship recognised.
• Strong experience as a maintenance engineer.
• BTEC Level 3 or above in Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Be the night point of contact for the engineering team and escalate issues.
• Manage on-site contractors ensuring safety.
• Own small projects; drive PPM objectives and KPI targets.
• Prioritise health and safety and food safety compliance.
• Diagnose faults; improve equipment availability.
• Support production with effective handovers.
• Identify and share continuous improvement ideas.
• Ensure planned maintenance is completed on time.
• Provide flexible hours to cover business needs.

Skills

Team leadership

Maintenance engineering

Safety compliance

PPM management

Problem solving

Education

BTEC Level 3 or above in Engineering

Time Served apprenticeship

Tools

Maintenance software

Contractor management tools

Job description

Role title: Engineering Team Leader Nights
Shift: Sunday-Thursday 22:00-06:00
Salary: Competitive
Location: Grimsby

About the role

We are now looking for an experienced Engineering Team Leader who will be managing the day-to-day operations within the engineering team, taking responsibility for assigning tasks and prioritising breakdowns. In this role you will be providing safe and efficient engineering service to support production and hygiene, and to ensure that a proactive approach is adopted to maintaining good machinery and operating efficiencies within a timely manner and work collaboratively with other functions, taking hands on approach, and providing support, where required, outside core functional responsibilities.

As an Engineering Team Leader some of the responsibilities will be to:

• To be the point of contact for the engineering team throughout the night, escalating issues when needed.
• Managing contractors when on site ensuring they are working safely
• Taking ownership of small projects within the team and driving PPM objectives and meeting KPI's set by the department team managers.
• During all activities ensure that the Health and Safety of themselves and others remains first priority.
• Correcting or if unable to correct, report any hazards which may lead to injury or food safety implications.
• Ensuring all activities are in compliance with food safety legislation and good manufacturing practices.
• Ensuring fast and effective responses to breakdowns and handovers to Production are appropriately communicated.
• Diagnosing faults and taking corrective action to ensure continuous service and identifying further improvements to increase equipment availability.
• Participating in a multi-skilled team within own capabilities and undertake in any training and development exercises to progress.
• Identifying and sharing continuous improvement ideas that may contribute to Health & Safety and equipment uptime or maintenance cost improvements.
• Ensuring planned maintenance work is completed on time and further work required is communicated to the Engineering Supervisor or Manager.
• Having a flexible approach to hours of work and working within the team to provide engineering cover to meet the needs of the business.
• Trained to issue permits to work and contractor permit monitoring
• Ensuring that good food manufacturing practices are maintained at all times.

To succeed as an Engineering Team Leader we ask that you have the following experience/expertise:

• Previously worked in similar FMCG environment
• Specific equipment knowledge and experience preferable
• IOSH Trained preferable
• Time Served recognised apprenticeship
• Strong experience as a maintenance engineer
• BTEC Level 3 or above in Engineering Discipline

What you get in return:

On top of working for a fantastic organisation with a family feel you will receive a great package with competitive holiday allowance, paid overtime, life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary, opportunities for development and internal promotion and free car parking on site.

About us:

We are a company that takes pride in their people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do, if you want to find out more please follow the link below. Hilton Food Group - Home (hiltonfoodgroupplc.com)