Assistant Engineering Manager

Salary: £26,000 per year

We have been instructed to support our client, one of the largest Private Label Pet food producers in Europe supplying quality pet products to the major supermarket and retail chains to recruit an Assistant Engineering Manager to join their existing team at their site in Esbjerg, Denmark

Job Title: Assistant Engineering Manager

Location: Esbjerg, Denmark

Salary: Competitive

Hours of Work: Days – 4 on 4 off days (7am to 7pm)

Purpose of The Role:

As the Assistant Engineering Manager, you will support the day to day management of the Engineering team, working closely with Operations and site management team to ensure output targets are achieved. Ensuring optimum performance of the manufacturing plants and equipment at least cost to give least breakdowns and continuously improve factory efficiency. You will lead the setting of engineering standards across the site by providing functional leadership and expertise on improvement activities, standards definition, and delivery.

Duties include:

Support the engineering function aligning with the site engineering strategy and annual engineering departmental targets including housekeeping & 5s standards as set by Group engineering are maintained and routinely improved.

Support the mentoring, coaching and development program of the team, liaising with the training & HR departments. Ensuring engineering inductions, training matrixes and training tasks are carried out weekly across all engineering teams.

Ensure preventative maintenance schedules are delivered to 100% on critical assets and above 95% on non-critical assets over a 12-month rolling period with tasks carried out to a high standard.

Review equipment failure & OEE trends to then implement continuous improvement actions and measure performance to ensure continuous improvement against site KPIs.

Manage improvement projects including resourcing of equipment and labour to deliver projects on time and budget.

Support the development of the CMMS system ensuring that each engineer achieves their targets on the specific work types for their job role

Site management to include contractor and utilities planning and control.

The ideal candidate will have worked within a similar fast paced environment, you will be an excellent communicator with the ability to give direction and challenge in a professional manner. A result led, proactive, driven approach is required with the aim to succeed within a demanding environment showing demonstrable experience of both electrical and mechanical engineering together with knowledge of BRC, GMP, Major Retailer codes of practice.