Engineering Manager

Salary: £54,000 per year

Reporting to the Operations Director, the Engineering Manager is a hands-on role responsible for the performance and development of the engineering and maintenance function on site, supporting the business in delivering customer satisfaction and achieving high performance levels. The role will lead a small team and develop systems and procedures to improve current machine availability times.

ENGINEERING MANAGER

STOKE ON TRENT

FULL TIME HOURS

PERMANENT

UP TO £45K DOE

THE ROLE

• Ensuring relevant Risk Assessments, Method Statements and Permits to Work are supervised
• Providing support where required in the event of breakdowns
• Proactively working to reduce machine downtime, using relevant data streams to engineer downtime out
• Performing root cause analysis on agreed downtime levels, implementing countermeasures
• Servicing & maintenance of electrical & mechanical equipment & services in accordance with current regulations, supervising internal labour and external contractors
• Create and execute Planned Preventative Maintenance and develop systems such as CMMS
• Where necessary take the lead on CapEx feasibility studies
• Ordering of goods and services relating to maintenance activities, reviewing and maintaining critical spare parts in the stores, reordering as required
• Controlling critical spare parts in line with agreed cost levels
• Using 5s methodology to improve and maintain the workplace to a high standard
• Carrying out Personal Development Reviews, motivating and supervising a small team

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Applicants should ideally be a time served tradesperson with relevant Engineering qualifications from an industrial, manufacturing background
• Previous experience of factory maintenance, including fault finding and repairs, developing Planned Preventative Maintenance systems on a range of equipment including valves, mixers, pumps, bagging machines and robotics
• The ability to lead a small team of Engineers

Due to the expected high number of applicants for the Engineering Manager role, we regret that it may not be possible to respond to all unsuccessful applications.