Senior Engineer

ELIS; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 Days Holiday

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Elis in Portsmouth is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead an engineering team within an industrial laundry plant. You will ensure safe operations, manage budgets, and drive improvements across electrical and mechanical systems.

You will mentor engineers, maintain compliance, and coordinate on-site contractors while communicating effectively with Production staff to ensure smooth handovers and reliable performance.

Qualifications

• Interpersonal skills to manage and influence people at all levels.
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Responsibilities

• You will possess leadership skills to organise an Engineering team, apply strategies and deliver efficient workflow within an industrial laundry processing plant.
• Guarantee all activities are carried out in accordance with the Site Health and Safety instructions and the SSG Health and Safety manual, as well as in accordance with relevant engineering standards.
• Understand compliance responsibilities and maintain records to an auditable standard.
• Carry out, regular and accurate assessment on energy measurables using trend data. Ensure fast response to deviation in working towards our common CSR goals.
• Provide knowledge and input into the continuous improvement of plant, machinery, and maintenance activities. Working with your Engineering team to identify areas and find suitable solutions.
• To ensure the Company’s disciplines, rules and standards are maintained.
• Have technical Engineering experience to order replacement parts and consumables whilst tracking and maintaining budgets.
• Report and investigate any incidents, accidents or near misses in accordance with Health and Safety Policies. Ensuring that safe systems of work and best practice procedures are adhered to at all times.
• To ensure the Company assets are maintained to achieve maximum efficiency.
• Manage contractors on site, ensuring they are working safely and adhering to Health and Safety rules and procedures.
• You will maintain excellent communication between Production staff and co-workers and ensure all handover of ongoing activities is carried out every day, sharing all other information and practices as required.

Skills

Leadership skills

Interpersonal skills

Manufacturing experience

Electrical trades

Mechanical trades

Pneumatics & Hydraulics

CMMS experience

Budget management

Fault finding

Travel willingness

Tools

CMMS software

Electrical drawings/schematics

Job description

Engineering

• Portsmouth
• Full-time
• Permanent

About Elis

About a career with Elis

Elis is an international leader in textile, hygiene and facility services, helping businesses across a wide range of industries to operate safely, sustainably and efficiently. With a presence in 29 countries and a team of around 52,000 people, we combine the scale and stability of an international organisation with the opportunity to build a rewarding and long-term career.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do.

We believe in investing in our people, recognising their contribution and giving them the opportunity to develop, progress and build careers they can be proud of.

At Elis, you'll be part of a culture built on trust, respect and collaboration, where your ideas and contribution are valued.

We want our people to have a voice, and our commitment to listening and acting on employee feedback was recognised when Elis UK won Best Employee Engagement Experience Initiative at the 2024 CIPD People Management Awards for our Employee Voice programme.

With opportunities across operations, engineering, logistics, sales and our head office support functions, there are many ways to develop your career with Elis.

The Opportunity

Key Responsibilities Of a Senior Engineer

• You will possess leadership skills to organise an Engineering team, apply strategies and deliver efficient workflow within an industrial laundry processing plant.
• Guarantee all activities are carried out in accordance with the Site Health and Safety instructions and the SSG Health and Safety manual, as well as in accordance with relevant engineering standards.
• Understand compliance responsibilities and maintain records to an auditable standard.
• Carry out, regular and accurate assessment on energy measurables using trend data. Ensure fast response to deviation in working towards our common CSR goals.
• Provide knowledge and input into the continuous improvement of plant, machinery, and maintenance activities. Working with your Engineering team to identify areas and find suitable solutions.
• To ensure the Company’s disciplines, rules and standards are maintained.
• Have technical Engineering experience to order replacement parts and consumables whilst tracking and maintaining budgets.
• Report and investigate any incidents, accidents or near misses in accordance with Health and Safety Policies. Ensuring that safe systems of work and best practice procedures are adhered to at all times.
• To ensure the Company assets are maintained to achieve maximum efficiency.
• Manage contractors on site, ensuring they are working safely and adhering to Health and Safety rules and procedures.
• You will maintain excellent communication between Production staff and co-workers and ensure all handover of ongoing activities is carried out every day, sharing all other information and practices as required.

What We're Looking For

• Interpersonal skills to manage and influence people at all levels.
• A minimum of 6 years’ experience working in a manufacturing/process environment.
• Skilled in both Electrical and Mechanical trades with knowledge of Engineering disciplines including pneumatics, hydraulics, electrical circuits and able to comprehend the relevant drawings/schematics. To share and support the team in their development by mentoring, recognising strengths/weaknesses and building well rounded Engineers.
• You will be self-motivated, able to make decisions and react quickly to the needs of the business.
• To record PPM and reactive information into a CMMS system accurately. Maintain PPM relevance by keeping the system up to date with changes. Reporting statistics into group.
• A logical approach to fault finding with a high attention to detail.
• Able to travel to offsite training facilities and other factories in the group, as and when required.

Desirable skills/knowledge

• Experience of managing a team of Engineers is a distinct advantage.
• Previous Industrial Laundry experience.
• Steam systems and chemical water treatment – BG01 or BOAS accreditation.
• Water network and heat recovery systems.
• Electronic component fault finding and testing.
• BS 7671IET wiring regulations.
• Inspection and Testing C&G 2391-52.
• Mentoring apprentice’s and/or developing Engineers.
• PTW risk assessor and contractor control.
• Legionella control, ACOP L8.
• Small to medium sized projects, 6 Sigma and Capex.
• IOSH managing safely or NEBOSH

What We Offer

• 29 Days Holiday
• Employee Assistance Programme

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity. We are able offer, and encourage career growth, and have national coverage to facilitate ambition.

In Addition We Offer

• 29 days holiday per year
• Working with a great team