Engineering Team Leader (Nights)

Cranswick PLC; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company events

Company pension

Cycle to work scheme

Free parking

On-site parking

Job summary

Cranswick PLC in Leeds is seeking an Engineering Team Leader for nights to oversee maintenance and engineering activities on the production line. The role focuses on leading a night-shift engineering team, coordinating resources, and ensuring food safety standards are met.

You will work closely with production, operations, and technical teams to improve engineering performance, manage permits to work, and maintain the Pirana Planned Preventative Maintenance system.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Engineering Supervisor to organise engineering resources and contractors within all site operations and activities to meet the daily production and maintenance requirements of the factory, whilst maintaining a high standard of food and health and safety standards.
• Work closely with production, operations, and technical to improve engineering standards and efficiencies, and assist in the training and development of the engineering team.
• Monitor and direct the day-to-day running of the engineering team under your control, including workload, record keeping, training requirements, and department responsiveness.
• Maintain and improve site services, utilities, plant, machinery and buildings with a focus on safety and compliance.
• Ensure permits to work are maintained and followed for on-site engineers, suppliers and contractors.
• Maintain the Planned Preventative Maintenance System (Pirana) and achieve KPI targets including reactive maintenance time, project completion, and cost efficiency.
• Maintain standards of discipline with contractors and suppliers, and ensure data/reports are stored efficiently and retrievably.
• Foster constructive relationships with internal departments and external contacts to support engineering risk management.

Job description

Hours of work: Panama shift - 6:00pm-6:00am -2on-2off ,3on-2off,2on-3off.

Due to the continuing and ongoing restructure of the Engineering Function at Cranswick Gourmet Bacon we are currently looking for an Engineering Team Leader (Nights).

Position Overview:

Due to the continuing and ongoing restructure of the Engineering Function at Cranswick Gourmet Bacon we are currently looking for an Engineering Team Leader (Nights).

Responsibilities:

To assist the Engineering Supervisor to organise engineering resources and contractors within all site operations and activities to meet the daily production and maintenance requirements of the factory, whilst maintaining a high standard of food and health and safety standards. Working closely with production, operations, and technical to improve engineering standards and efficiencies, and for assisting in the training and development of the engineering team within your area of control. Monitoring and directing the day-to-day running of the engineering team under your control, including workload, record keeping, training requirements, and department responsiveness.

Objectives:

• Maintenance and improvement of all site services, utilities, plant, machinery and buildings
• Maintaining an environment and culture of safe working practices understood and maintained within the site engineering function, encompassing compliance with company, customer & statutory regulations, legislation & guidelines
• Compliance in areas of engineering risk
• Maintenance and continual review of permits to work for both on site engineers, suppliers and contractors
• Maintenance of the Planned Preventative Maintenance System (Pirana)
• Achievement of agreed KPI’s including:
  • Reactive Maintenance Time
  • Timely and cost-efficient completion of engineering projects
  • Training and development of engineering staff
  • Continuous identification of ways to reduce costs & improve standards & efficiency across the engineering function
• Ensure engineering standards & procedures are followed across all areas: Staff, Colleagues, Contractors, Suppliers & Equipment
• Provision of an efficient, courteous and responsive engineering department with a ‘can do’ approach to work
• Ensuring the effective storage and maintenance of engineering data/reports / statistics / information. Information to be filed efficiently, being up-to-date, consistent, clearly defined and easily retrievable. Where appropriate set up record keeping systems, both manual and computerised which allow the team to review its progress and effectiveness
• Standards of discipline maintained with regard to contractors and suppliers working within the site environment
• Maintaining a constructive relationship with all internal departments and external contacts Compliance in areas of engineering risk

A full Job description is available upon request.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Leeds LS25 6PL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education: