Group Asset Care Engineering Leader (Hybrid)

Princes-Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash car allowance

25 days annual leave + birthday off

Pension 14.5%

Flexible holidays

Family policies

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

Critical illness cover

Learning & development

Job summary

Princes Group PLC in Liverpool is seeking a Group Asset Care Engineering Manager to shape maintenance strategy across multiple sites. You will lead governance, drive reliability, and advance predictive maintenance initiatives, reporting to Head of Engineering.

The role demands Chartered Engineer status, strong leadership, and a track record in FMCG asset performance, with focus on compliance, lifecycle value, and digital tools adoption.

Qualifications

• Qualification in a relevant or related engineering discipline.
• Significant experience in asset management, reliability engineering, or maintenance leadership.
• Demonstrated engineering leadership within food manufacturing or FMCG, with a proven track record of improving asset performance across multi-site industrial environments.
• Strong understanding of statutory compliance, mechanical integrity, and safety standards.
• Experience implementing predictive maintenance technologies and digital tools.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Financial acumen with experience in budget management and ownership.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage CMMS/EAM tools and analytics platforms to improve asset performance and maintenance efficiency.
• Background in manufacturing, processing, utilities, or heavy industry.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and govern group-wide asset-care standards, processes, and KPIs.
• Establish a unified engineering governance framework to ensure consistency across all sites.
• Lead the transition from reactive to proactive and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Develop, implement and oversee a new era of reliability engineering, condition-based monitoring, and failure-prevention programmes.
• Analyse asset performance data to identify systemic issues and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure robust root-cause analysis and continuous improvement practices are utilised across the operational landscape.
• Strengthen statutory compliance and mechanical integrity assurance across all sites.
• Ensure all maintenance activities meet regulatory, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Provide clear accountability and oversight for engineering compliance.
• Drive standardisation of maintenance practices, tools, and systems.
• Optimise maintenance cost through lifecycle planning, spares optimisation, and measured reduction in reactive work.
• Integrate asset-condition data into strategic CAPEX planning to optimise replacement timing and lifecycle value.
• Lead the adoption of predictive analytics, IoT technologies, and digital asset-care tools.
• Drive a cultural shift toward data-led decisions and innovative maintenance methodologies that elevate reliability and efficiency.
• Build engineering capability across sites through coaching, training, and knowledge sharing.
• Provide expert technical support to site engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Group-wide asset-care framework and KPIs implemented.
• Reduction in unplanned downtime and reactive maintenance.
• Improved statutory compliance and mechanical integrity assurance.
• Predictive maintenance technologies deployed and embedded.
• Enhanced engineering capability and cross-site knowledge sharing.
• Improved alignment between asset condition and CAPEX planning.

Skills

Asset management

Reliability engineering

Maintenance leadership

Predictive maintenance

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Safety standards

CMMS/EAM tools

Education

Engineering degree

CEng status

Tools

CMMS/EAM tools

Job description

Princes Group PLC in Liverpool is seeking a Group Asset Care Engineering Manager to shape maintenance strategy across multiple sites. You will lead governance, drive reliability, and advance predictive maintenance initiatives, reporting to Head of Engineering.

The role demands Chartered Engineer status, strong leadership, and a track record in FMCG asset performance, with focus on compliance, lifecycle value, and digital tools adoption.