Engineering Team Manager – Maintenance Delivery

Engineering Team Manager – Maintenance Delivery

The Role

As Engineering Team Manager, you will be responsible for leading engineering activity on shift and ensuring the safe and effective delivery of maintenance across the site.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and coordinating engineering activity across the shift team
• Managing engineering response to breakdowns and major equipment failures
• Allocating resources effectively between reactive and planned maintenance
• Ensuring planned maintenance schedules are delivered and recorded in the CMMS
• Maintaining strong engineering discipline, documentation and compliance standards
• Enforcing safe systems of work including isolation and permit procedures
• Supporting root cause investigations and reliability improvement initiatives
• Leading daily shift briefings and maintaining clear engineering communication
• Coaching and developing engineers within the team
• Maintaining high standards of housekeeping, engineering workmanship and asset care
• You will act as the first line of engineering leadership when production stability is at risk

The Person

We are looking for a strong technical engineer who can combine hands-on fault-finding capability with practical team leadership.

You will typically have:

• A time-served mechanical or electrical apprenticeship
• Strong fault-finding experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience working within food production or FMCG manufacturing
• The ability to lead engineers and coordinate work during breakdown situations
• Experience using CMMS systems for maintenance recording
• Strong knowledge of safe systems of work and engineering compliance
• Previous team leader or supervisory experience
• Experience with in high-care food manufacturing environments
• Exposure to root cause analysis methodologies
• Understanding of the cost of downtime and production impact

Why Join Kettle Produce?

At Kettle Produce, engineering plays a critical role in supporting our operational performance and future growth.

You will be joining a team focused on:

• Improving reliability and engineering standards
• Investing in equipment and infrastructure
• Developing engineering capability across the business

We offer:

• Structured engineering leadership roles
• Opportunities for career development
• A collaborative and supportive working environment

4 on 4 off Shift Pattern

Salary - £43,264.00 + Shift Allowance - £12,979.20