Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

£70-75k DoE plus package

Merseyside

This opportunity is ideal for an Engineering Manager looking for a role with a growing FMCG SME.  They are well established in their field with long term customers in the food and foodservice industry.  Heading up a medium sized engineering team, there is the scope to truly make this role your own through effective leadership and a structured approach, drawing on your previous background managing engineers in manufacturing.

As Engineering Manager, the main elements of the role are:

• Developing an engineering team that is fully integrated with the operations and has joined up plans to deliver daily targets and business goals.
• Improving performance and driving a ‘right first-time’ culture.
• Developing the engineering team through strong communication so they understand their accountabilities and how their input affects the engineering plan.
• Moving from a reactive to proactive team who take the initiative and have a positive impact on operational efficiencies.
• Demonstrating the importance of working cross functionally so the team can achieve the overall business goals.
• Appraise the engineering structure and ensure it continues to deliver and support the operations team.
• A member of the SMT on site so a key part of how the whole site performs.
• Ensuring there is structure and rigour within the engineering team and that the team embrace a PPM mentality and go beyond the checks to understand the kit and how they can be one step ahead of that inevitable breakdown.

What do we need to see in your cv/background for this Senior Engineering Manager role?

• Key is the experience of developing engineering teams so they feel valued and have a voice in the business.

• Proven engineering management background managing teams in an FMCG environment.
• Able to develop good engineering processes building a solid foundation that allows improvements to be measured.

• Strong communication to the team and wider operations and supply chain teams.
• Able to make decisions and keep others informed in a time focused environments.
• To understand the drivers and metrics around operational KPI’s and to translate these into engineering objectives.

Please contact the Novus team to discuss this role and other senior engineering roles, that can’t always be advertised, across the UK.