Lead Engineer
2 weeks ago
Job Summary:
We are seeking an exceptional Lead Engineer to join our team at The Weetabix Food Company. In this critical role, you will be responsible for addressing plant-related engineering obstacles, coordinating and managing the engineering team during shifts, and supporting manufacturing operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a dynamic shift-based multidisciplinary team, ensuring task coordination, prioritisation, and resource allocation
- Act as line manager for engineers, focusing on development, performance reviews, and disciplinary matters
- Provide engineering support to production, resolving breakdowns and addressing priority issues
- Compile shift reports with manufacturing and engineering insights
- Ensure team adherence to health, safety, and food safety standards
- Manage permit to work activities for safety and efficiency
- Offer hands-on support for equipment troubleshooting and guide effective problem-solving
- Utilise extensive engineering knowledge to instruct others on asset use
- Advocate for improvements in asset reliability and engineering processes
- Effectively use CMMS for logging and reviewing maintenance work
- Facilitate training for operators on basic engineering tasks and mentor engineering apprentices
Requirements:
- Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Industrial Engineering qualification
- Knowledge of CMMS Systems
- Knowledge and experience in the field of facilitating improvement processes, with continuous improvement programs such as Lean, TPM and RCA (root cause analysis)
- Held a Lead role managing a small team
- Proven capability to educate and train staff members across all levels
- Alignment to Weetabix values
- Are always curious to finding new ways to do business
- Have the ability to demonstrate how you keep up to date in your field of expertise
Nice to Haves:
- Familiar with risk-based maintenance methods such as RCM, FMEA and ABC criticality
- Experience in the food or process industry
- Knowledge of DSEAR compliance
- Excellent communication Skills both verbal and written
- Be able to self-manage
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise multiple tasks
- Demonstrated ability to interact in a collaborative manner with other departments
- Good IT skills
We offer:
- Annual bonus 7.5%
- Double matched ER contributed pension scheme
- Annual Salary review
- Healthcare plan
- Access to 24/7 counselling service (in partnership with Grocery Aid)
Please note that our company policy is not to advertise salaries as we want to benchmark all candidates based on skills and experience that need to be evidenced upon application and screening.
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