Regional Engineer

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc.; Coventry; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Career progression

Global engineering exposure

Shape regional strategy

Job summary

Bodycote, based in Coventry, seeks an Regional Engineer to provide technical leadership across UK sites, driving reliability, maintenance, and safety improvements. The role requires significant UK travel and overnight stays.

You will build and mentor regional engineering teams, implement standards, monitor MTTR/MTBF, manage CMMS activity and lead root cause analysis to prevent repeats. Flexible hours and site support are expected.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience across multi-site manufacturing environments.
• Experience with maintenance, asset reliability and continuous improvement.
• Experience developing and leading engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of planned and reactive maintenance and RCA.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across Bodycote’s UK sites to improve reliability, maintenance, safety and performance.
• Lead regional engineering teams through recruitment, training and development planning.
• Monitor MTTR/MTBF; oversee maintenance, spares and CMMS.
• Perform root cause analysis to eliminate recurring failures.
• Provide technical escalation during failures and coordinate support.
• Drive continuous improvement in safety, reliability, cost, uptime and energy.
• Support compliance, risk assessments, audits and incident investigations.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Maintenance & reliability

Team development

Maintenance planning

CMMS & data

HSE compliance UK

Root cause analysis

Communication

UK travel

Engineering qualification

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Are you an experienced engineering leader ready to drive reliability, safety and performance across multiple UK sites? Join Bodycote and help shape engineering excellence across the region.

About Bodycote

At Bodycote, we’re more than the world’s leading provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services. We’re a people business at heart. Our commitment to innovation and sustainability shapes everything we do. With a global footprint and a culture built on collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement, we create an environment where you can grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact. Sustainability is central to our future. We’re on an ambitious journey to reduce our environmental impact through advanced technologies, smarter processes, and ongoing innovation, with our teams around the world playing a key role in making that happen.

The Role

As a Regional Engineer, you’ll provide technical leadership and engineering support across Bodycote’s UK sites, driving improvements in equipment reliability, maintenance, safety and operational performance. Based in Coventry, the role involves regular UK travel and overnight stays.

You’ll lead and develop regional engineering teams through recruitment, training, competency reviews and development planning, while promoting consistent engineering standards and best practice.

You’ll monitor MTTR and MTBF, oversee planned maintenance, critical spares and CMMS activity, and use root cause analysis to identify and eliminate recurring failures.

You’ll provide technical escalation during equipment failures and quality issues, coordinate additional support when required, and drive continuous improvement across safety, reliability, cost, uptime and energy performance.

You’ll also support regional engineering compliance, risk assessments, audits and incident investigations, working closely with site, EHS and project teams to maintain safe, reliable and efficient operations.

The role requires flexibility to provide technical support outside normal working hours, including weekends and bank holidays.

Key Essentials: Who We’re Looking For

• Proven engineering leadership experience within a multi‑site manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Strong experience in maintenance, asset reliability and engineering improvement.
• Experience managing and developing engineering teams, including training, competency, performance and succession planning.
• Strong understanding of planned and reactive maintenance, condition‑based monitoring and root cause analysis.
• Experience using CMMS systems and engineering performance data.
• Strong understanding of UK engineering health, safety and compliance requirements.
• Experience analysing equipment performance, identifying recurring failures and implementing effective corrective actions.
• Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work flexibly and respond quickly to operational and technical issues.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively across the UK, including overnight stays.
• Engineering qualification or equivalent technical experience.

Desirable Qualifications / Experience

• IOSH Managing Safely.
• NEBOSH General Certificate.
• SMSTS or equivalent construction management training.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
• Level 5 Leadership and Management qualification.

What’s In It For You

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Career progression opportunities within a global engineering and manufacturing business.
• Opportunity to influence engineering strategy and performance across multiple UK sites.
• Exposure to major reliability, safety, energy and continuous improvement projects.
• A supportive culture where your leadership, expertise and development are valued.
• The opportunity to develop engineering capability and shape best practice across the region.
• Join us at an exciting point of change, where your expertise will help define the next chapter of our business.

Location & Work Pattern

This role is based in Coventry, with extensive travel required across Bodycote’s UK sites and regular overnight stays.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to characteristics protected by local law, including (where applicable) gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, and ethnicity. We’re committed to creating a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Department Engineering Role Regional Engineer Locations Coventry Yearly salary £60,000 Employment type Full-time