The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Walsingham, Norfolk, UK
Contract & Hours – 6 months Fixed-term contract, Full Time, 37.5 hours per week – Monday – Friday
Package includes a starting salary from £60,000 a performance related bonus scheme, a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.
Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
You’ll lead engineering at our Walsingham site, improving reliability, ensuring compliance, and moving the team from reactive fixes to a more planned, preventative way of working. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you’ll work closely with your team and site leaders to strengthen performance and shape the future of engineering.
What you’ll do
- Lead and develop the site engineering team, staying visible and hands‑on
- Drive a shift to preventative maintenance and improve equipment reliability
- Ensure compliance with engineering standards and statutory requirements
- Build maintenance plans and support capital investment priorities
- Work closely with operations to improve overall site performance
What we’re looking for
- Engineering leadership experience in manufacturing or a similar site environment
- A hands‑on, practical leadership style with strong team engagement
- Experience improving maintenance and moving from reactive to planned approaches
- Good understanding of compliance, safety, and engineering standards
- Strong problem‑solving and the ability to prioritise effectively
Nice to have
- Experience in feed, food, agriculture, or process industries
- BOAS or BOAS-M (desirable, not essential)
About The Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it.From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family‑owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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