Engineering Manager

Job Description:

Engineering Manager

Location - Leicestershire

Salary - Highly Competitive plus car allowance

Our client, a well-established FMCG manufacturer, is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the onsite engineering team. This is a high-impact leadership role where you'll inspire and elevate the engineering team, drive continuous upskilling, and keep operations running smoothly to increase and retain reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Lead all engineering and site services operations, ensuring safe, compliant and reliable performance within a manufacturing environment.
• Shape and deliver the site engineering strategy, driving asset reliability, performance improvement and operational efficiency.
• Oversee preventative maintenance programmes and continuous improvement initiatives to minimise downtime and enhance productivity.
• Manage engineering budgets and capital expenditure, leading investment projects from concept through to delivery.
• Provide technical leadership to support food safety, HACCP compliance and cross-functional operational objectives.
• Develop and inspire a high-performing engineering team, embedding strong safety culture, succession planning and capability growth.

Requirements:

• Significant leadership experience within a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Experience in roles such as Engineering Manager, Plant Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience managing departmental budgets and delivering cost-effective operational performance.
• Experience within coaching, leading and developing engineering teams.

If this is of interest, please apply or call Duke on (phone number removed) to find out more information.