Engineering Manager

2 weeks ago


Tonbridge, United Kingdom Reginald Ames Tea Merchants & Brokers Full time
About Reginald Ames Tea Merchants & Brokers

We are a well-established, fast-growing, and forward-thinking company specializing in the importing and packing of high-end specialty teas, herbs, and infusions from around the world.

We are the market-leading contract packer for specialty teas in the UK, packing for a multitude of well-known household brands.

The team is focused, friendly, and highly professional, with a passion to deliver top-quality products with pride.

We are a growing team of 28 people, 16 of whom are running our teabag and blending machines every day.

Job Summary

Hours: 8:30am - 5:00pm

Salary: Dependent on experience

Job Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of two Technicians/Engineers and work closely with the Production team to provide technical and engineering support to the Production Supervisors.
  • Identify operations and process improvements required to manufacture products in a way that ensures quality, cost, and efficiency requirements are met.
  • Set goals and standards and guide and develop Shift Engineers/Technicians to achieve those goals.
  • Ensure a safe working environment and continuity on all machines to be working safely and efficiently.
  • Control stock of Spare Parts and align this to support the speed of the production lines, minimizing downtime.
Essential Functions
  • Oversee and manage the Engineering function for the business.
  • Lead a team of Engineer/Technicians, providing guidance, setting goals and standards for continued improvement.
  • Develop and implement Production Staff SOPs to ensure all machines run satisfactorily to a standard process, unsupervised.
  • Develop and implement Shift Engineer SOPs to ensure there is a standard way of working, fault finding, and fixing machines.
  • Ability to manage own time and workload effectively.
  • Identify, justify, and implement improvement/efficiency opportunities.
  • Ensure all machines are safe and legal.
  • Manage Preventative Maintenance Schedule and arrange in-house work & external contractor visits.
  • Develop Electronic reactive maintenance programme.
  • Adhere to Trading, Weighing, and Measures Legislations.
  • Liaise with Operations Manager & Technical Manager for Technical information and Systems Management.
Job Knowledge/Skills/Experience
  • Fluent English speaking
  • Hold a relevant Degree in engineering qualification.
  • Proven experience of working & managing in a fast-paced, manufacturing environment.
  • Good Diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
  • Good Organisation skills with the ability to communicate at all levels.
  • People management skills
  • Teamwork
  • Capacity to understand a range of engineering functions and procedures.
  • Health and Safety in the Engineering workplace
  • Good Knowledge of MS Office programmes and WMS.


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