Job Ref: 212850054

Date: 2020-12-03 07:45:14

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Bonfire Recruitment are working on a significant opportunity to recruit a experienced, career driven, Site Engineering Manager for our retained and exclusive client based in Milton Keynes.

Reporting to the General Manager, and being a key member of the Senior Leadership Team on site, responsibilities will include:

* Leading and managing the engineering department

* Monitoring, training, and developing a team – multiskilling, succession planning and apprenticeships programmes

* Defining and implementing engineering and maintenance strategy

* Capex planning

* Defining and setting KPIs, measuring the team against them and driving improvements from them

* Ensure there are no engineering-related issues which prevent the factory from achieving the production schedule every day

* Instilling an improvement culture in the engineering team and helping the rest of the business deliver improvement projects

* Designing appropriate PPM schedule, ensuring they’re carried out and follow-ups completed

* Identifying maintenance improvement opportunities and developing an action plan to deliver.

* Defining and implementing engineering equipment and contractor standards

* Negotiating contract and supply costs, ensuring value for money

* Maintaining an awareness of technological developments

* Managing smaller-scale capex projects

* Co-ordinate out-of-production-hours activities and deliver planned work to time/cost/quality requirements

* Provide engineering management information, technical information, expertise and support

* Budget planning and responsibility

* Ensuring compliance – food safety/BRC, hygiene, quality, GMP, SHE

Experience & Competencies Required:

* Food Production experience in an Engineering Manager/Engineering Team Leader role

* Proven strong team leadership and development skills

* Empowering and engaging management style

* Relevant mechanical and electrical qualification

* Proven experience of developing a plan and hitting the milestones to deliver it

* Working in a continuous improvement environment where change is embraced

* Ideally Health & Safety experience, ideally with IOSH/NEBOSH

* Have a desire to make improvements

* Be collaborative – listen to, and work with other teams

* Be pro-active

* Have great attention to detail

* To be able to prioritise, organise and plan and understand the consequences of plans and actions

* To have a H&S focus

*If you would like to be considered apply now, interviews commencing in December 2020*

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Disclaimer: Bonfire Recruitment or our client are not seeking or accepting unsolicited assistance from search and selection firms or employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, do not contact any of our employees by phone, email or otherwise about this position. Any resume submitted by a search and selection firm or employment agency for a position to any client employee via email, social media or any other means without the existence of a valid written search firm agreement for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company. The Company (our client) will not be obligated to pay any cost or fee in the event it offers employment to or hires a candidate that came to its attention through such unsolicited referral

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