Site Engineering Manager

About the Role

The Engineering Manager will be responsible for overseeing the maintenance and operation of chemical plants, ensuring compliance with statutory legal requirements and company policies. This role requires a strong background in engineering, management, and leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all assigned duties and tasks are carried out in compliance with statutory legal requirements and company policies.
• Promote a positive health and safety culture by ensuring good housekeeping standards are used, correct PPE is being worn, and any near miss, incident, or accidents are made safe and reported.
• Manage the Engineering team to ensure the safe, standardized, and efficient maintenance of all plant and equipment as per planned routines and statutory requirements.
• Oversee the allocation of daily work orders and control of technicians to ensure correct prioritization and close-out of site activities.
• Responsible for managing the correct installation, inspection, servicing, and repair of all mechanical and electrical equipment and instrumentation on site.
• Facilitate planning of all shutdown work and intrusive safety-critical jobs with associated test bodies and departments.
• Ensure all project plans, improvements, repairs, and shutdown works are performed to the appropriate standard, ensuring coordination of resources for the flawless execution of works to agreed timescales.
• Work with the Business Processes Manager to implement and manage engineering Key Performance Indicators for reliability of equipment, plant breakdown time, spares stocks, completion of SAP routines, and close-out of inspection defects.
• Contribute to raising capital asset requests, including design input, provision of technical and process data, specification requirements, procurement, contractor quotations, formal contract agreements, delivery, commissioning, and assessing resource requirements.
• Work closely with Engineering teams to actively encourage the identification of appropriate upgrades, modifications, or enhanced maintenance routines to maximize and maintain plant availability and efficiency.
• Manage and maintain Engineering training records to ensure adequate coaching and competency assessments are performed as per individual requirements from the training requirements matrix.
• Ensure engineering teams are competently completing all tasks, including reporting of equipment defects, correctly completing all paperwork, and that work is appropriately undertaken, ensuring all unsafe items are suitably isolated/communicated and reported.
• All engineering activities must follow Tradebe permit-to-work procedures, ensuring that a permit to work covers all work on plant, including a suitable risk assessment and method statements (or task instruction) covering all hazards, including access requirements, competency assessment, prerequisites for cleaning and isolations prior to starting tasks.
• The engineering department must develop flexibly to respond to business needs through performing additional tasks, including basic non-trade tasks, forklift driving, etc., in accordance with competencies and departmental requirements.
• Regularly track progress and communicate progress, including potential issues, for all engineering and capex work.
• Manage the detailed planning of materials/equipment deliveries and any additional resource involved with either preparation or planned works for maintenance activities or shutdown works.
• Ensure all contract labor is fully aware of site activities and hazards, including their own responsibility to make safe any potentially unsafe situations by stopping tasks to isolate/communicate issues as appropriate.
• Promote Continuous Improvement (CI) opportunities to improve plant and equipment operation/reliability and control through contributions from production department and regular review of breakdown and spares data.
• Champion engineering CI projects utilizing the techniques and approach used within Six Sigma, including regular updates and presentation of progress.
• Participate in MOC reviews, hazard studies, risk assessments, and accident investigations as required.
• Follow Tradebe change management (MOC) system by ensuring that all engineering activities have been assessed against Tradebe procedures, ensuring no impact to operation or statutory requirements prior to the engineering team physically performing tasks.
• Regularly review inspection and breakdown data, striving to improve plant availability by reducing any downtime and maximizing efficiency while identifying any potential CI opportunities to improve control, operation, or maintenance.
• Manage direct report holidays, ensuring sufficient coverage is maintained to operate the department. Manage all aspects of teams' HR, aid Engineering Supervisor with technicians, confirming that all absenteeism and disciplinary issues are collated and reported, individual performance must be appropriately managed and reviewed as per Tradebe procedures.
• Ensure all waste generated through engineering activities is disposed of timely and efficiently in-line with current legislation.
• Assist Site Manager in all aspects of his work and deputize as required in his absence.

Requirements

• Define standards so that all work is undertaken in a manner conducive to good Health, Safety, and Environmental practices, paying particular attention to housekeeping by regular auditing programs and confirming that all defects are correctly reported and managed.
• Housekeeping standards are maintained around the plant in accordance with best practices, with particular focus on compliance with DSEAR.
• Work closely with Engineering Supervisor to establish a balanced work schedule as per agreed priorities, this will include routine work, safety-critical tasks, any breakdowns or project work.
• Communicate the KPIs of the department through provision of regular performance monitoring data as well as a monthly summary to the site manager.
• Aid and guide Engineering Supervisor to develop suitable task instructions and technical documents to cover all regular routines, and that these are kept up to date to include the latest available data, guidance, and best practices.
• Provide suitable time and resource to appropriately manage hazard, risk, and COSHH assessments as required, reviewing findings and inclusion of all control aspects into relevant documentation and training plans.
• Control the provision of suitable documentation, competent resource, and approval for all engineering Permit to Work requests as per Tradebe procedures, including monitoring to ensure that all works are performed as per expected site safety standards.
• Encourage and challenge engineering team to optimize plant/equipment to maximize group profitability while ensuring they follow correct and approved task instructions.
• Engineering team is completing appropriate documentation and following all identified task instructions to safely and efficiently maintain plant while complying with all health, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Regularly monitor contract labor, reviewing performance to ensure effective, efficient, and safe work practices while following legislative guidance and site rules.
• Ensure department provides suitable robust instructions to safely perform all tasks through clear communications while ensuring all required process break-ins have the correct isolation, proving/checking, and decontamination (if appropriate) thus minimizing potential hazards.
• Review, assess, and plan as required capex projects for new plant and/or equipment coming to site, working closely with supplier to supply appropriate information, timelines, and documentation.
• Make suitable arrangements for managing CDM projects, including appointment of other duty holders, provision of welfare, and allocation of sufficient time and resources.
• Create clear and concise plans to execute and monitor progress of routine tasks, equipment repairs, and project work to keep site management team up to date.
• Encourage good communications and reporting from engineering teams, providing timely feedback on tasks, any remaining faults, breakdowns, isolations in place, and any accidents, incidents, or near misses that have occurred.
• Approve SAP purchase orders for the engineering department while managing within allocated budget, ensuring that all orders are progressed in a timely fashion through SAP.
• Track departmental spend, aiming to keep within set budget through highlighting any significant spends in advance and weekly forecast reporting to the Site Manager.
• Manage Engineering team to provide effective control over consumables and spares to safeguard uninterrupted processing while balancing against minimizing inventory levels and cost.
• Succession planning through the development of engineering teams with associated progression plans. Requirements include having and maintaining training records; including competency assessments, managing training needs, and performance monitoring.
• Controlled documents are suitably managed by the Engineering Supervisor; all updates are approved/updated on SAP, reviewed periodically, and are issued to teams as appropriate.
• In the event of a Major Accident Hazard scenario, if the most senior person on site to act as the Site Incident Controller (SIC) or provide support to the SIC in the event of the emergency services being called to site.