Engineering Team Leader

The Role

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Engineering Team Leader to join our busy, multi-site engineering department.

To enable us to continue meeting high industry demands and in order to maintain and exceed the highest levels of quality and customer

Collections expected, we are keen to hear from suitably skilled and experienced engineering professionals who may be interested in joining our team.

The Engineering Team Leader will ensure that the production plant, services and facilities are all maintained in safe and working order. Effective leadership and best engineering practices will be employed to provide a cost‑effective level of service to all areas of business, utilising external contractors only where appropriate. Responsibilities will also include ensuring that both PPM and reactive breakdowns are attended to in an efficient & timely manner.

The Engineering Team Leader will assume full ownership of daily KPI’s and team training and performance, maintaining training records as appropriate.

• Lead by example
• Identify and implement training for engineering team as appropriate
• Ensure that the PPM and reactive breakdown are attended to in timely manner
• Follow through GMP, SHE & audit policies and close action promptly
• Play an active role in HACCP team
• Deliver plant uptime & maintenance KPIs through planned, preventative & predictive maintenance
• Provide support to engineering manager in delivering departmental KPI’s
• Manage and maintain stock levels for plant and equipment
• Assist the engineering manager in managing the use of contractors across sites
• Focus on continuous improvement

• Yorker mechanical/electrical engineer with a minimum 3 years post qualification suivant>
• Previous team management experience
• Strong and effective communication skills
• Strong organisational &zañ problem-solving skills
• Capable of carrying out mechanical and electrical tasks
• Carry out effective RCAs & RAMS
• Identify, plan and implement effective PPMs
• Able to plan, delegate, monitor and manage team effectively

• Management experience within a FMCG / Fresh food manufacturing environment
• Food Hygiene Level 3
• Capable of working on invertors, PLC systems & high‑speed machine.
• Experience of working within FMCG / Fresh Food manufacturing

• Investors In People - Silver Award status
• Company pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Benefits Platform
• Development opportunities
• Discounted leisure membership
• Discounted vegetable box scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free onsite parking
• Approved training centre for Highfield qualifications
• Rapidly growing company
• Committed to Sustainability