Our Engineering Manager is responsible for optimising plant availability across two sites in Nottingham and Leicester to efficiently deliver our material processing targets.
Our role focuses on expert practical problem solving and continuous improvement, balancing operational throughput with plant availability, using our Shire pre‑planned maintenance system and coordinating engineering activities to improve our plant. You will lead, motivate and manage a team of multi‑skilled maintenance engineers, with 3rd party contractors as appropriate, driving a continuous improvement culture within the maintenance team.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure that you and your team only work safely, implementing and maintaining 5S disciplines across our sites
- Comply with all appropriate Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) legislation and policies and use a red‑tag process as appropriate where machinery is defective
- Lead, motivate and develop a high‑performing maintenance team that delivers against agreed objectives, best practice and continuous improvement
- Manage 3rd party contractors, ensuring compliance with site induction, permit to work and delivery against agreed work plans
- Devising and managing the Engineering Budget, capex and monthly spend in line with agreed parameters
- Drafting risk assessments, method statements, safe working procedures with appropriate training and competency validation
- Optimise pre‑planned preventative maintenance, refurbishment and replacement of process equipment as appropriate
- Deliver reliability‑centred maintenance strategy derived from OEM recommendations, in‑service failure diagnosis and PPM frequency and continuously review asset performance to eliminate/reduce mechanical or electrical failures
- Manage procurement of all spare parts ensuring minimum stock levels for identified critical items to avoid production losses through lack of availability of parts and financial write‑downs, consignment stock and rebate opportunities to minimise maintenance spend whilst not reducing quality or reliability
- Manage statutory plant inspections and ensure any non‑conformances and opportunities for improvement are addressed promptly
- Optimise mobile plant availability, liaising with OEMs to agree repairs, costs and actions for lease and owned equipment and manage the asset replacement schedules
- Develop energy efficiency procurement and plant modification plans to reduce energy consumption
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Previous experience as an Engineering Manager within a recycling facility or similar batch processing environment with heavy industrial equipment
- HNC – either Electrical or Mechanical
- Demonstrable experience with 5S, continuous improvement tools and CMMS (ideally SHIRE but also FMEA, FTA, SMED) to optimise and improve plant availability and reduce energy consumption
- Demonstrable experience with electrical systems, plant automation controls and sequencing
- Project Management including delivery of major capex projects using AutoCAD
- Experience in technical and practical problem‑solving
- Demonstrable history of leading, coaching and developing a multi‑skilled, multi‑site engineering team
- Commercial acumen
Desirable
- IOSH Managing Safely
- Experience of Lean & CI techniques
- Experience working within a Heavy Industry
Location
Nottingham
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time, 45 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary
Circa £55,000 – £60,000 per annum
Benefits
25 days holiday plus bank holidays, annual bonus scheme, 6% employer pension contribution.
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