Engineering Team Manager Days

Overview

In this Asset Care Lead role, you will guide a 6-person day-based engineering team in a bakery setting, performing hands-on mechanical and electrical maintenance while driving the Asset Care Strategy. You’ll coordinate with senior engineering leadership to improve reliability within a highly automated facility and ensure safe, compliant operations. The position blends technical maintenance with people leadership in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, backed by a strong pension and bonus package.

Pay / Benefits

• profit-related bonus
• award-winning pension scheme
• life assurance
• health and wellbeing support
• option to purchase extra annual leave
• continued investment in personal development

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6 day-based engineers and oversee their workload
• Perform ~70% hands-on mechanical and electrical maintenance
• Plan and coordinate planned vs reactive maintenance with the PPM Co-ordinator
• Drive reliability improvements and support the Asset Care Strategy
• Ensure safety, quality, and food safety compliance across activities
• Manage contractor activity and ensure effective handovers between day and shift teams
• Develop training and development plans; conduct performance reviews
• Plan shutdown maintenance, ensuring parts availability and timely execution

Key requirements

• Experienced in electrical and mechanical maintenance
• People management experience
• FMCG/manufacturing environment experience preferred
• H&S/food safety knowledge (e.g., IOSH)
• Structured engineering training (apprenticeship/HNC/degree or equivalent)
• IT skills including SAP and Microsoft Office
• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Decision-making skills

• leadership
• communication
• coaching
• electrical maintenance
• mechanical maintenance
• SAP maintenance system

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