Engineering Reliability Manager in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East

At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business.

Salary: Circa £65,000 Annual Profit-Related Bonus

Are you an Engineering Reliability Manager, Engineering Maintenance Manager or Senior Engineering Team Leader with experience of working in a manufacturing environment and looking to progress or up for a new challenge? Due to continued growth and investment in our Engineering-led manufacturing sites, we have an opportunity for an Engineering Reliability Manager to support our Bakery in Newburn.

As a key part of our Engineering Management team, you will engage and motivate a skilled team of engineers, utilising root cause analysis to identify and prioritise corrective, preventative, predictive and mitigating actions. At our Free From Bakery here in Newburn, the team are dedicated to delivering unbeatable quality in a safe manner with highly reliable equipment. We are proud to be leading and developing a collaborative, creative and responsive team at the cutting edge of engineering innovation.

In this role you will lead, motivate and manage a team of multi-skilled engineers to drive a culture that delivers plant reliability, product quality and safety in line with company standards. Working with the Engineering Manager, you will have accountability for delivering the engineering strategy, via planned, corrective and reactive maintenance work.

The Recipe: We are going on a journey of innovation and continuous improvement whilst working on a changing approach to reliability centred maintenance. Our Engineering Reliability Managers and our Engineering teams are encouraged to foster new ideas and perspectives whilst driving change at a pace; we are looking for you to make a personal impact, have passion and inspire a team whilst recognising successes and rewarding that along the way.

We take pride in keeping our people and customers safe, so you will play a key role in ensuring work is conducted in accordance with our stringent health and safety requirements. Passionate about our people, you too will want to engage and develop your team driving together for results. People are our most precious ingredient so along with your technical focus, you will have a passion for people development as well as a hunger for working collaboratively with your colleagues to drive the success of our site. Through coaching and mentoring, we aspire to invest in your development to become our future senior leaders.

The Role:

• Safety: Accountable for own and team adherence to relevant safety performance across all activities.
• Leadership: Responsible for team training plan, individual development plans and performance reviews.
• Resource Management: Responsible for ensuring that the day-to-day operational requirements can be fulfilled through the appropriate provision and allocation of team members.
• Operational Management: Accountable for plant performance uplifts via allocated reactive, corrective and planned maintenance tasks across plant and equipment through the effective management of their team.

Built on concepts from robust Root Cause Analysis of Top Losses/MI losses data within SAP. Develop site led Asset Care MI/Losses reduction plan by utilising various CI Tools & techniques.

Essential Ingredients:

• Possess an Engineering Qualification such as a Degree, HND, HNC, BTEC or equivalent.
• You will have previous experience of managing a team of Engineers, with the ability to lead, develop, coach and mentor.
• Experienced in implementing risk-based maintenance strategies.
• A working knowledge and understanding of Budgets, Capex (proposals and project implementation), contract management, supplier negotiation.
• Previous experience of working with electrical control systems and automation.
• A strong mechanical background with electrical multi-skilled experience.
• You will be able to deploy and execute a reliability centred asset care strategy.
• Passionate about quality and best practice whilst driving continuous improvement.
• Have a safety-first mindset with experience of COSHH & HACCP, and a working knowledge of H&S audits and processes.

Extra Dough:

• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share).
• Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we will give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra week's annual leave.
• Award winning pension scheme with company contributions.
• Private medical insurance and life assurance.
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website.
• Continued investment in your personal development.
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service.
• Access to 24-hour virtual GP through our Help at Hand App which also includes counselling and life coaching sessions.
• Free on-site parking.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Payroll giving scheme.

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.