The Person

You will be a strong team player, working alongside the general manager, senior management team, department heads and associated staff, and be a professional communicator and influencer, a people person, proactive, enthusiastic, friendly, and confident, with the ability to interact with people at all levels.

The Role

Daily Duties will Include

• Leading the site Engineering teams, working to ensure all business and departmental objectives and KPIs are achieved

• Budget planning, managing finances and costs related to engineering maintenance, energy, utilities and water, facilities management, projects, labour, contracts, and consumables.

• Driving through environmental and/or energy efficiency projects

• Minimising downtime and leading the engineering team to investigate root cause analysis (RCA) and address recurring faults and engineering issues

• Ensuring adherence to key metrics, site compliance, standards, and regulations, including but not limited to, health & safety, overall equipment effectiveness, (OEE), food quality, and budgets.

• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement, best practice, and a centre of excellence, always looking for new and more efficient ways of working.

• Driving through changes

• Offering a collaborative approach, able to work closely with colleagues across other departments to achieve business goals

• Adhering to cleaning-in-place systems (CIP)

• Attending training and developing courses, as appropriate

Management

• Managing a team of engineers, to include, but not limited to, deputy engineering manager, senior project engineers, site bakery engineers and apprentices

• Organising engineering colleagues’ workloads and call-out rota’s

• Managing rota, call outs, holiday, health and welfare and the training and development of all engineering personnel

• Supervising staff performance and behaviours, time, and attendance

• Assisting with the recruitment of personnel

• Providing leadership and direction to personnel, ensuring that they are trained, managed, supported, engaged, focused, and delivering their potential

• Ensuring operational excellence within your area of responsibility for labour management and performance

• Supporting active staff involvement, aligned towards employee engagement

• Monitoring employee absences, capability and performance issues, grievances, approving holidays, and shift patterns, etc

• Communicating fully with your team, including the daily tasks and requirements

• Ensuring your staff have acceptable personal hygiene cleanliness standards and are wearing the correct personal protective equipment (PPE)

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience of working as a Site Engineering Manager or similar – essential

• Experience of working within a fast-food manufacturing environment – essential

• Experience of managing a diverse workforce. Strong leadership skills, able to coach, mentor and develop teams - essential

• Experience of working as an electrical or mechanical engineer, within an industrial setting - essential

• A minimum level 3 qualification in electrical or mechanical engineering, (NVQ, City and Guilds, HND or equivalent) - essential

• Apprentice trained - essential

• A management qualification - preferred