Engineering Team Manager

At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Salary: Circa £65,000 dependent on experience Benefits package includes: Profit related bonus, award winning pension scheme (up to 12% contribution), life assurance, private health care, health and wellbeing support. Are you an Engineering Reliability Manager, Engineering Maintenance Manager, Engineering Team Manager or a Senior Engineering Team Leader with experience of working in a manufacturing environment and looking to progress your career? The Recipe We have an opportunity for an Engineering Team Manager to support our Bakery in Normanton, Wakefield. As a key part of our Engineering Leadership team, you\’ll engage and motivate a skilled team of engineers, utilising root cause analysis to identify and prioritise corrective, preventative, predictive and mitigating actions. At our high performing flagship site near Wakefield, 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 alongside the Engineering Manager and Operational Support Manager you\’ll have accountability for delivering the engineering strategy, via planned, corrective and reactive maintenance work. The Role Our Engineering Team Managers and Engineering teams are encouraged to foster new ideas and perspectives whilst driving change; we’re looking for you to make a personal impact, have passion and inspire a team whilst recognising successes. We take pride in keeping our people and customer’s safe, so you’ll play a key role in ensuring work is conducted in accordance with our stringent health and safety requirements. People are our most precious ingredient so along with your technical focus, you\’ll 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 a future senior leader. Our Wakefield Bakery has seen over £10 million worth of investment in the last 5 years, and you\’ll be responsible for a CAPEX budget of over £1 million each year. We are passionate about continuous improvement, never resting on our laurels; so, as part of the role you\’ll be involved in CI project work and through continued personal and professional development, you will have the opportunity to elevate your career. Essential Ingredients Structured and practical engineering training (e.g. apprenticeship/HNC/degree). You’ll 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 strong mechanical background with electrical multi skilled experience Passionate about quality and best practice whilst driving continuous improvement Have a safety-first mindset with a working knowledge of H&S audits and processes Extra Dough Last and by no means least, you\’ll want to know what your breads worth. A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share) Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we\’ll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks 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 About Us As ‘the UK’s No. 1 Bakery Brand’ we have been baking bread since 1876. Today, we are proudly a fifth-generation family, with the introduction of the sixth generation, supplying over 18,000 retail customers from 11 bakeries and 16 depots, producing a range of over 70 products including gluten and wheat free. Family and values are what makes us different, and we are a proud bunch, join us and you too could be proud to be Warburtons. 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