Engineering Leader

Location: West Midlands

Overview

We are recruiting for a hands-on and driven Engineering Leader to join a well-established food manufacturing business. Reporting into the Operations Manager, this role is responsible for leading site engineering activities, always ensuring compliance with Health & Safety and Food Safety standards. This is a fantastic opportunity for a multi-skilled engineer with strong leadership capability who thrives on driving continuous improvement, improving equipment reliability, and moving from reactive to proactive maintenance within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

About you

• Multi-skilled Engineer with an electrical bias.
• Mechanical qualification or strong mechanical competency.
• Experience within Food Manufacturing nice to have but not essential.
• As Engineering Lead, you will have strong knowledge of Health & Safety and Food Safety standards.
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to build strong cross-functional relationships.
• Experience implementing preventative maintenance and asset care strategies.
• Proactive, solutions-focused and experienced in root cause analysis and continuous improvement techniques.

What will you be doing?

• Leading and co-ordinating all site-based engineering activities in line with site, H&S and Food Safety standards.
• Ensuring compliance with all regulatory and legislative requirements.
• Supporting the site in delivering operational targets and improving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
• Driving the transition from reactive to proactive maintenance through robust and reliability centred maintenance strategies.
• Maintaining and optimising manufacturing equipment and machinery performance.
• Identifying root causes of equipment and process failures and implementing sustainable corrective actions.
• As Engineering Leader, you will be supporting the design and installation of new process lines aligned to business growth.
• Building strong collaboration across Production, Technical, Warehouse and H&S teams.

So, what can they offer you?

An established and growing food manufacturing business where engineering plays a key role in operational success. You'll join a supportive site leadership team with real autonomy to shape engineering strategy, improve site reliability and deliver meaningful continuous improvement. The opportunity to make a visible impact on operational performance while developing both your technical and leadership capability.

We are keen to speak with experienced Multi Skilled Engineers, Engineering Supervisor, Maintenance Supervisor, Electrical Engineers, Engineering Team Leader, Engineering Leaders who live within Hinckley, Atherstone, Nuneaton, Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Warwick, Rugby.

How to Apply

If you have the desired qualifications and experience, please send your CV quoting re JO/TNT/2494 or call / for a confidential discussion.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.