This is an opportunity to join a progressive manufacturing business with a strong growth mindset. Reporting to the Operations Director, you will lead a finite team and take ownership of day‑to‑day engineering function.
The Role:
- Ensuring Engineering targets are met within deadlines, without compromising quality or control of costs.
- Ensuring a robust preventative maintenance system is in place and implemented.
- Ensuring good housekeeping is maintained.
- Maintaining policies, procedures and practices to satisfy all company rules and regulations.
- Carrying out monthly engineering audits on all preventative and reactive works that have been completed.
- Assessing and reporting all engineering repair costs.
- Sourcing and cost managing parts suppliers.
- Assessing and maintaining adequate stock levels.
- Liaising with accounts and suppliers/contractors for invoice approval.
- Sourcing and cost managing all annual service and inspection contracts.
- Ensuring all buildings, plant and machinery are maintained to the highest possible standard and comply with regulations.
- Ensuring all departmental staff are capable of undertaking the jobs at hand, in a safe and capable manner and in compliance with all company rules and regulations.
- Managing all departmental staff to ensure a continuous safe working environment for all production and engineering staff.
- Ensuring all employees are performance managed, addressing any issues that arise, promptly and professionally by ensuring legislative compliance and best practice are followed at all times.
Key Tasks:
- Checking and adjusting staff levels to ensure the most efficient running of the department.
- Identifying training needs for new and existing employees.
- Conducting disciplinary hearings with departmental staff.
- Approving and managing holiday allowance to ensure adequate cover in the department.
- Maintaining good employee relations and promoting equality of opportunity.
- Maintaining H&S and hygiene standards in accordance with Company rules and regulations.
- Ensuring that all staff and visitors in the department wear appropriate PPE at all times.
- Auditing the factory with relevant departmental managers on a weekly basis and reporting back at H&S meetings.
- Creating and developing risk assessments in‑line with company policy.
- Highlighting any possible environmental issues to the Health & safety and site Facilities Manager for action.
Person Specification:
- Leads and guides from the front.
- Background in FMCG manufacturing.
- Electrical or electronic biased, knowledge of mechanical.
- Health & safety experience (IOSH desirable).
- A track record of leading through change or growth.
- Strong communication skills and a proactive, solutions‑focused mindset.
This position is not sponsored for work permits or work permit transfer applications. Candidates must be able to prove their eligibility to work in the UK.
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