Engineering Manager

Our client is a successful and well-established manufacturer. They are looking for an Engineering Manager to coordinate and manage the engineering team, along with involvement with engineering projects.

NOTE – The start date for this role is likely to be in September / October 2025, so if you have a 3 month notice period please still apply.

PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:

• Minimum of 5 years experience of managing engineering activity in a manufacturing / FMCG / Production environment.
• Experience of managing teams of over 15 people.
• Proven capability of setting and managing budgets more than £2m/year.
• You have an ONC/HNC Engineering qualification.
• Recognised management qualification e.g. NVQ, ILM, CMI.
• NEBOSH General Certificate.
• IOSH Managing Safely.
• Computer literacy to a high level.

Job Details:

• Salary depending on experience (to be discussed if your application is shortlisted).
• Access to a Pool car + Other benefits.
• Hours of work: Monday to Friday days with possible out of hours support via telephone or personal attendance on site to manage any significant issues beyond the authority/capability of on site personnel.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety policies, procedures, and legislation and ensure that all work is undertaken to the highest Health & Safety standard.
• Implement and maintain an asset management program to cover all manufacturing equipment and services.
• Control engineering and toolroom spending and ensure adherence to budgets.
• Engineering stores and workshop management including stock control, purchasing, spares availability and housekeeping.
• Manage and control contracts in line with procedures from specification writing to installation.
• Management and control of contractors on site to ensure compliance with company safety and environmental policies.
• Assess downtime trends to identify areas of weakness and in conjunction with production function develop plans to reduce breakdowns and improve equipment reliability.
• Strengthen overall leadership and capabilities for the engineering function.
• Build and sustain a high-performance engineering and site services team and ensure strong alignment and coordination with Production function and other functional groups.
• ‘Champion’ the application of maintenance ‘excellence’ methodology.
• Develop and maintain a maintenance KPI dashboard in engineering and toolroom.
• Managing compliance to requirements of ISO14001.
• Develop and manage the AGILITY CMMS system.

This job would suit people with similar previous job titles such as; Senior Engineering Manager / Engineering Supervisor / Head of Engineering / Site Manager / Engineering Lead / Engineering Leader / Project Engineer / Lead Engineer / Maintenance Manager / Maintenance Supervisor / etc.