Shift Engineering Manager

4 on 4 off Days

Leicester - LE3

Up to £54,000

Food Experience is essential

As the Shift engineering manager, you will have the opportunity to create and develop a site maintenance function, establishing policies and procedures to ensure best practice whilst mentoring and leading the department. Providing both a reactive and pro-active, multi skilled maintenance service on all operational equipment, you will take responsibility for planned service maintenance schedules and prepare the annual maintenance budget and forecasts. In addition to this, you will need sufficient automotive or plastics experience.

Main objectives and results:

Direct line management, coaching and training of Manufacturing Engineering & Maintenance team
Accountability for Project management of all aspects of M.E projects to support site development and launch
Plan the workload for specific major projects across production shutdown periods
Lead cross functional on time, on cost product launches
Preparation of RFQ's, contract review and risk management
Support continuous improvement activities
Liaise with outside contractors if required
Checking that agreed work by staff or contractors has been completed to a satisfactory standard and following up on any deficiencies.
Successful co-ordination of running changes
Manage plant interface in support of Program targets and common faults and drive corrective actions based on impact in terms of frequency and total time stoppages.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

Good levels of literacy & numeracy
Leads by example - e.g., behaviours, attitude etc - good personal skills
Must have food manufacturing background
Experience within bakery process is not essential, however you will need to be committed to learning
Communication skills (both verbal and written)
Decision making skills

In return for your commitment my client offers a stable and secure career. If you feel this is of interest, please send your CV to directly to Megan Fletcher on