Engineering Manager - Enstone

Role & Key Responsibilities

Engineering Manager

Location:

Enstone, Oxfordshire, UK

Contract and Shift details:
Permanent – Monday – Friday 37.5hrs per week (Flexibility is required)

Package includes Salary from £60,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.

Are you an experienced and hands‑on Engineering Manager? We are looking for someone with a strong history of managing and developing a team.

• Leading and developing a team of 4 engineers & providing direct guidance and support to ensure legal compliance, plant availability, and performance.
• Bring an electrical focus to the role, strengthening team capability and closing identified skills gaps.
• Lead and coordinate both proactive (planned preventative) and reactive maintenance activities to ensure equipment reliability and minimise downtime across all sites.
• Financial control and responsibility for Engineering resource, R&M budget, HS&E, buildings, and maintenance – support the Ops manager in the monthly budget review process.
• Contribute to budget development, 3‑year Capital project plans, Improvement projects, proposing solutions for potential savings or process optimisation and looking at ways to improve overall site performance.

• A safety and quality first mindset to provide leadership to their team and support for the wider site team, with proven positive impact through effective team working, communication and leadership.
• Multi‑skilled Engineer with solid direct experience and qualifications too, preferably HND/HNC, BTEC or NVQ Engineering qualification mechanical or electrical.
• Previous experience in Feed Milling, Flour Milling or other process related manufacturing / Boiler governance and controls, Governance and control of engineering/site risks and hazards.
• Understanding how and when to apply the right Continuous Improvement tools and techniques.
• Provide regular out‑of‑hours support and adopt a hands‑on approach to maintenance and engineering activities, ensuring the team can deliver reliable performance across a 24/7 operation.

This role is based at our Enstone site in the heart of the Cotswolds, with occasional off‑site development and training opportunities at our Peterborough head office or other sites within the business.

We’re AB Agri part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology‑based products, and offering data services for the agri‑food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values.

Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (alternative formats, support dog, sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.