At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and manage the engineering team, ensuring safety, quality, and compliance.
- Company: Join a leading food industry company focused on innovation and quality.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, generous holiday allowance, and various employee discounts.
- Other info: Enjoy a supportive culture with excellent career development prospects.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic environment with growth opportunities.
- Qualifications: Electrical/mechanical qualifications and experience in engineering management required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
About Us
We are a company that takes pride in our people, at the centre of everything we do. We have multi‑category expertise with a focus on quality and innovation, delivering what customers need and consumers want with expert taste and growth mindset. Our business began with meat, and we've developed a market‑leading expertise with unmatched quality globally. We’re always investing in new technology to deliver more value, efficiency and consumer‑led innovative solutions.
Role: Engineering Manager
Shift: Monday‑Friday
Type: Permanent
Location: Huntingdon
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for a professional and experienced Engineering Manager to join our growing Engineering team. As an Engineering Manager you will effectively manage the Engineering resources within your assigned areas and the engineering team, ensuring legal compliance with industry-specific legislation and adherence to customer requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Set the tone by example (reliable, hardworking, agile and adaptable) and demonstrate that safety and quality are important.
- Ensure all Engineering Risk Assessments and SOPs are updated and have been read and signed by your team.
- Manage the shift rota to provide suitable cover for business requirements, while ensuring holidays and overtime are in line with agreed processes.
- Work with HR to recruit the best possible Engineers for vacancies.
- Ensure the engineering onboarding process is robust and gives new starters the best opportunity to learn and succeed.
- Provide the team with the tools, training and parts they need to do their job well.
- Maintain the engineering workspace to an audit‑ready standard at all times.
- Provide updates on reactive maintenance, proposed planned maintenance tasks and breakdowns.
- Escalate relevant issues to the Site Engineering Manager.
- Attend DRM 3 in the absence of the Site Engineering Manager.
- Ensure the CMMS is up to date, review CMMS data and verify that all assets on site are recorded, assigned appropriate PPNs and maintained according to the PPM schedule.
- Maintain Engineers’ RGC utilisation between 70‑90% and ensure accurate time‑keeping, notes and parts booking.
- Maintain a 12‑monthly PPM plan for assigned units, with monthly completion compliance >85%.
- Ensure key assets such as TVI 1600s, TV1 1200, Mondini’s, VMags, sleevers, grinders and blenders are maintained to 100%.
- Manage contractors, assign permits to work and ensure RAMS are in place.
- Escort contractors and monitor adherence to RAMS.
- Manage team performance: agree PDRs, conduct monthly formal 1‑to‑1s, perform sickness procedures, disciplinary meetings and investigations.
- Provide regular feedback and work with Engineers to improve.
- Keep the skills matrix up to date and highlight training requirements.
- Develop cost justification.
- Set a clear development programme for Engineers and apprentices.
- Produce shift reports and handover documentation to the oncoming shift, highlighting critical tasks.
- Ensure the Site Engineering Manager has visibility of major issues, task completion and costs.
- Work within procedural and financial boundaries set by the Site Engineering Manager.
- Maintain the weekly budget and present any overtime requirements to the manager for the following week to keep overtime below cost‑reduction targets.
- Collaborate with other Engineering Managers and the Site Engineering Manager to ensure Engineering spend stays within site limits.
- Ensure engineering labour costs remain within the agreed engineering budget, including overtime costs.
- Deputise for any meetings in the absence of the Site Engineering Manager.
Required Experience / Expertise
- Must have electrical/mechanical qualifications (NVQ 3 or equivalent) and previous experience as an engineering supervisor or management position within the food industry sector.
- Demonstrated experience and progression within an Engineering department, including change management, continuous improvement and budgetary control of parts and labour.
- Solid IT literacy and ability to produce reports based on department KPIs from multiple sources.
What You Get In Return
- Competitive holiday allowance.
- Life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary.
- Opportunities for development and internal promotion.
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
- Share Save scheme.
- Variety of discounts at well‑known retailers and gyms.
- Free car parking on site.
- Subsidised canteen.
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity benefits.
Engineer Manager in Huntingdon employer: Hilton Foods
Hilton Foods is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, perfect for Development Chefs looking to make a meaningful impact in the food industry. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, competitive benefits including a generous holiday allowance and life assurance, as well as opportunities for internal promotion, team members are encouraged to thrive and develop their culinary skills. Located in a dynamic environment, Hilton Foods not only values quality and creativity but also supports its employees with unique advantages like a Share Save scheme and free car parking on site.
