At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and manage the engineering team for efficient manufacturing operations.
- Company: Join a leading food manufacturing business in Bradford.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a permanent night-shift role.
- Other info: Dynamic night shift pattern with opportunities for career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a fast-paced environment while developing your engineering skills.
- Qualifications: NVQ Level 3 in Engineering and experience in FMCG preferred.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
Are you an experienced Engineering Shift Manager looking to join a leading food manufacturing business based in Bradford? You will have a strong engineering background within an FMCG environment, with proven experience of managing and developing an engineering team. As an Engineering Shift Manager, you will play a key role in minimising downtime, improving equipment performance, supporting the asset care programme and ensuring the engineering team delivers a safe and efficient manufacturing operation. This is a permanent night-shift position working 42 hours per week on a 2-2-3 Panama pattern, with a competitive salary and excellent benefits.
Your role will involve:
- Lead and manage the engineering team to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the manufacturing site
- Minimise machinery downtime through proactive and predictive maintenance, effective fault finding and a swift response to breakdowns
- Ensure engineering priorities are aligned with production requirements to minimise disruption to manufacturing
- Continually identify opportunities to improve equipment performance, reliability and efficiency without compromising product quality
- Lead and support the site asset care programme, ensuring equipment is maintained to the required standards
- Take a hands-on approach to repairing, maintaining and optimising engineering assets when required
- Coordinate maintenance activities and priorities with the wider Maintenance and Engineering teams
- Engage, motivate and develop members of the engineering team, creating a positive and productive working environment
- Support training and development opportunities to improve engineering capability across the team
- Take responsibility for crisis and incident management, including accidents and near misses, ensuring appropriate investigations and corrective actions are completed
- Ensure engineering activities are carried out in line with site health, safety, environmental and food safety requirements
- Support and manage discipline and grievance processes where required
- Work collaboratively with production and operational teams to ensure engineering issues are resolved effectively
- Promote a strong continuous improvement culture across the engineering function
Hours of work: 42 hours per week Night Shift - 18:00 - 06:00 Panama Shift Pattern - 2/2/3. You will work a combination of 2 days on, 2 days off and 3 days on, followed by 2 days off, continuing on a rotating basis.
Suitable Candidates:
- Qualified to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Engineering
- ONC Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or BTEC Level 3 in Mechanical & Electrical/Electronic Engineering would be advantageous
- Proven experience working within an engineering and fault-finding role within an FMCG environment, ideally food manufacturing
- Previous experience of managing, leading and developing an engineering team
- Strong mechanical and electrical engineering knowledge with excellent fault-finding skills
- Good understanding of HACCP principles and food manufacturing standards
- Ideally qualified to 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
- Confident making decisions and managing engineering issues in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Excellent communication and people management skills
- Assertive, organised and able to prioritise effectively
- A hands-on, can-do attitude with a strong work ethic
If you are interested in the above Engineering Shift Manager role, APPLY NOW via the job board.
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