Engineering Manager

1 month ago

Lancaster, United Kingdom Northwood Full time

Want to make your mark in a highly successful manufacturing company as an Engineering Manager?

If you're looking for something varied and challenging, bring your expertise to Northwood, where you can showcase and grow your skills whilst leading a team and providing hands-on support to deliver the strategic plans of the site.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Engineering Manager to join the management team at our Tissue Mill and paper-converting site in Lancaster.



Role Overview

As the Engineering Manager, you will lead the Engineering team, ensuring effective equipment maintenance and working safely, quickly and efficiently to deal with breakdowns and scheduled PPM.

Responsibilities include:

  • Leading and developing a team of engineers across Mechanical, Electrical and Engineering Planning disciplines, promoting a safe working environment through compliance with safety rules and guidelines
  • Controlling costs, including waste control, labour, engineering, and consumable costs, while also ensuring the Spare Parts warehouse supports maintenance efficiency
  • Managing and fully utilising the CMMS system
  • Researching innovative solutions aimed at ensuring the optimal operation of production equipment and improving maintenance efficiency, including energy improvement reviews, carrying out obsolescence surveys and creating action plans
  • Introducing a Reliability Centred Maintenance approach, considering planning, scheduling and execution of the agreed CBM
  • Managing, verifying and controlling the installation of new equipment
  • contribute as part of the site management team to the future direction of the business.


Benefits

  • Company pension
  • Life assurance
  • Free company products
  • Free on-site parking
  • Retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
  • Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
  • Free early access to pay scheme
  • Salary sacrifice schemes
  • Employee referral scheme


Essential Skills

We're looking for someone with:

  • Proven experience as an Engineering Manager
  • Ideally, degree-qualified or equivalent
  • Used to leading a team in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Join a company that values your skills and encourages you to grow in your career; apply for this Engineering Manager role today



About Company

Northwood is a family-owned group of associated companies that provide the manufacturing, supply and transportation of paper hygiene and wiping products for both the away-from-home and consumer market.

Our mission is to be the market-leading partner of choice in the away from home tissue industry. One of only a small handful of companies in the UK market that is fully vertically integrated; Northwood is involved at each point in the supply chain, from raw material supply, tissue and towel manufacturing, end-user product converting, storage and transportation.

Our remit is huge, with a portfolio of products covering two key systems brands, professional wiping, commodity, consumer paper and private label. We sell into a distribution network spanning the UK, Ireland and Europe, which in turn service markets such as healthcare, hospitality, hotels, engineering, janitorial, catering and education.

We are a highly successful, award-winning and ambitious business that has grown from a humble paper sales business to a market leader employing over 800 colleagues, across 11 sites in the UK and Spain.

We differentiate ourselves by excelling in product quality alongside market-leading service and sales support.



DE&I

At Northwood, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone is welcomed and respected. We strive to promote a workplace that celebrates diversity and encourages individuals to express their opinions and beliefs. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all.

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