Night-Shift Engineering Team Lead: Hands-On & Impactful

2 Sisters Food Group; Ditchingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary up to £61,000

Benefits package

Overtime opportunities

Training and qualifications support

Health Assured EAP

GroceryAid support

Cycle2Work scheme

Job summary

2 Sisters Food Group is seeking an Engineering Team Leader for night shift to lead the on-site engineering function in a fast-paced poultry processing environment. You will be hands-on and step into leadership, guiding a multi-skilled engineering team while ensuring safe, reliable operation.

The role requires time-served engineers with mechanical and electrical capability and supervisory experience. Night shift is 12-hour, 4 on / 4 off, with a strong focus on safety and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Time-served, multi-skilled engineer with strong mechanical and electrical capability.
• Experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment; food/poultry manufacturing experience advantageous.
• Previous supervisory or senior engineering experience, ready to progress into leadership.
• Calm, practical and decisive under pressure when responding to breakdowns.
• Able to lead by example and set clear expectations to engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead as the senior engineering presence on shift, setting standards and direction.
• Perform hands-on mechanical and electrical fault-finding, repairs and maintenance.
• Coordinate the response to breakdowns to restore safe, reliable operation with minimal disruption.
• Ensure issues are reported, escalated and resolved; support the wider engineering team.
• Mentor engineers on shift and promote safe working practices and discipline.
• Contribute to root-cause analysis and continuous improvement to increase equipment reliability.
• Communicate shift performance, priorities and risks to Operations and senior stakeholders.
• Uphold food safety, housekeeping and best practice standards.

Skills

Mechanical capability

Electrical capability

Fault-finding

Leadership

Communication

Job description

2 Sisters Food Group is seeking an Engineering Team Leader for night shift to lead the on-site engineering function in a fast-paced poultry processing environment. You will be hands-on and step into leadership, guiding a multi-skilled engineering team while ensuring safe, reliable operation.

The role requires time-served engineers with mechanical and electrical capability and supervisory experience. Night shift is 12-hour, 4 on / 4 off, with a strong focus on safety and continuous improvement.