Site Engineering Leader: Reliability, CAPEX & Growth

ao.com; Telford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holidays + BH

Pension scheme

Healthcare

AO Arena tickets

Discounts across AO range

Volunteer days

Job summary

AO.com is seeking an experienced Site Engineering Manager to lead engineering at our Telford fridge recycling facility, shaping long-term strategy, boosting asset reliability, and steering major investments.

You will oversee the engineering roadmap, capital portfolio, infrastructure and utilities, while developing engineering managers and technical teams to resolve complex multidisciplinary challenges.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leadership experience in a demanding industrial/manufacturing/recycling environment.
• Experience leading managers and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Proven track record in reliability, asset management and engineering transformation.
• Proven delivery of significant capital programmes and engineering budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead the full site engineering function and develop a high-performance engineering culture.
• Create and deliver the engineering and asset strategy.
• Lead engineering managers, maintenance leadership and specialist technical resources.
• Own site-wide reliability, engineering governance and asset lifecycle planning.
• Act as senior technical authority for complex plant faults, recurring failures and difficult performance problems.
• Provide practical technical leadership during major incidents, root-cause investigations and commissioning.
• Develop and challenge engineering concepts, scopes, specifications and designs for plant and capital improvements.
• Direct major CAPEX programmes, infrastructure upgrades and automation projects.
• Set the engineering operating budget and develop robust investment cases.
• Lead engineering compliance, technical risk and contractor governance.
• Drive improvements in OEE, energy, utilities, sustainability and operating cost.
• Build succession, competence and leadership capability across the function.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Asset management

CAPEX management

Multidisciplinary teams

Electrical & mechanical

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Automation systems

Control philosophies

Job description

AO.com is seeking an experienced Site Engineering Manager to lead engineering at our Telford fridge recycling facility, shaping long-term strategy, boosting asset reliability, and steering major investments.

You will oversee the engineering roadmap, capital portfolio, infrastructure and utilities, while developing engineering managers and technical teams to resolve complex multidisciplinary challenges.