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Salary: £55,000 per annum flat salary
Hours: 07:0016:00 or 08:0017:00
Rota: Five days from seven, including two weekends per month
Employment: Permanent, full-time
We are recruiting a hands-on Engineering Manager for an established food-manufacturing operation in Weeton, Lancashire.
This position involves managing a small engineering team of approximately three engineers while remaining actively involved in maintenance, electrical fault-finding, breakdown response and improving equipment reliability.
It could represent an excellent first Engineering Manager opportunity for an experienced Engineering Team Leader, Engineering Supervisor or Senior Multi-Skilled Engineer who has already supervised, supported or developed other engineers.
This is a practical, hands-on engineering positionnot a predominantly office-based management role.
The role
You will be responsible for:
- Managing, supporting and developing a team of approximately three engineers.
- Planning and prioritising daily engineering and maintenance activities.
- Coaching junior engineers and developing their technical capabilities.
- Providing hands-on electrical and mechanical engineering support.
- Diagnosing faults and resolving breakdowns efficiently.
- Supporting planned preventive maintenance activities.
- Improving plant reliability, equipment performance and engineering standards.
- Working closely with production teams to minimise downtime.
- Ensuring all engineering work is completed safely and in accordance with food-manufacturing and hygiene standards.
- Supporting continuous-improvement and equipment-development projects.
- Maintaining appropriate engineering records and managing outstanding work.
- Stepping in to support the engineering operation as and when reasonably required.
There is no formal on-call rota attached to this position.
Essential experience
Applicants must have:
- Strong multi-skilled maintenance engineering experience.
- Recognised electrical engineering qualifications, preferably relating to manufacturing or industrial electrical engineering. xgikmsk
- Strong practical electrical fault-finding ability.
- Experience within an industrial, manufacturing or production envir Please click on the apply button to read the full job description
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