Lead Engineer

The Company:

Successful, dynamic food business manufacturing a range of products for the retail and food service markets. This is a state-of-the-art food site.

The Opportunity:

Due to internal promotion, we are currently recruiting a Lead Engineer.

Reporting to the Divisional Engineering Manager you will lead and manage a range of engineers ensuring the smooth running of the factory by resolving predominately mechanical and electrical breakdowns, delivering maintenance and driving improvements

The role:

• Motivate guide and train the engineering team
• To lead the focus on PPM onsite whilst always ensuring that there is a pro-active approach to planned maintenance and a high PPM output
• Manage on site contractors
• Deliver on plant uptime and maintenance KPIs through planned, preventative & predictive maintenance
• Deliver improvement work on machinery and site improvement work
• Ensure Engineering time is managed effectively and that that there is low Engineering down-time

You:

• Minimum of 3 years’ engineering experience
• Hands on ability. This is not a theoretical engineering role
• Multi-skilled with formal engineering qualification to ONC, NVQ Level 3 or higher, in an electrical or mechanical subject or a Nationally recognised apprenticeship in an engineering discipline

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