Engineering Manager
Weetabix, United Kingdom
Job Description
Firstly, a little bit about why we are the Nations favourite cereal brand!
Weetabix is renowned for its commitment to providing better breakfasts and helping people live healthier lives. They are the home to popular breakfast favourites such as Weetabix, Alpen, and Weetabix On the Go Drinks. With our world-class innovation and extensive product range, Weetabix has established itself as a market leader. As part of the Weetabix family, you will have the opportunity to contribute to this success and make a difference in people's lives.
We are looking for a self-motivated Senior Engineering Manager with exceptional communication and problem-solving skills, responsible for all engineering support services across multiple factories / facilities.
This role will report to the Senior Leadership Team and has significant autonomy in leading the Engineering Support Team and driving efficient service provision across the business.
Closing date for applications is 11th February 2024
Requirements
The recipe
What you will do:
• Shape the engineering strategy for the team to maximise performance and streamline service delivery
• Establish and uphold high standards of safety performance and compliance within the extended team.
• Deliver planning function for Engineering. Drive outage performance, active back log management and services provision.
• Engage with the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process to optimise outage duration and frequency for the business.
• Lead the team to drive our Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to deliver minimal total cost of ownership.
• Take ownership and continuously update our asset plan to ensure its relevance and longevity for the next 5 years.
• Manage the Interface for our Mechanical and Electrical Incumbent Service Provider, reviewing performance, ensuring key targets are met
• Revitalise and strengthen the Engineering team by championing succession planning, spearheading recruitment efforts, and driving our dynamic apprentice scheme.
The key ingredients
• Be motivated to provide exceptional leadership and management skills, ensuring the team performs at its best and achieves continuous growth and improvement.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing strategic initiatives with significant impact.
• Experience in successfully leading and achieving outstanding results on complex projects.
• Understanding and application of maintenance engineering best practices such as TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance).
• Relevant experience in the food or process industry.
• Results oriented with the ability to plan and deliver KPI targets
• Commitment to team working, workplace safety and overall product quality.
• Good understanding of LEAN and Continuous Improvement tools and methodologies
The Recruitment process
We will aim to shortlist within 1 week of application. For those shortlisted we anticipate interviews will commence early February with an initial Teams interview followed by an Interview in person at our offices in Burton Latimer which will include a site tour.
We may also ask you to come in again and meet a member of the Senior Leadership Team to ask any remaining questions you may have and understand fully how our business works.
We reserve the right to close any job early where we have high volumes of candidates.
Inclusion without exception
Our differences ‘Make the Difference’ and have a ‘Brilliant People’ culture where we believe that our people can do their best work when they can bring their best selves to work every day.
We value diversity, as it sparks creativity, innovation, and ultimately better business performance.
We recruit and develop people who are best suited to the requirements of the role on offer and our talent and succession programmes are grounded in ensuring that ‘Talent Matters’ and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and are supported to fulfil their unique potential.
By joining our team, you will be part of helping ensure we continue our ‘Inclusion without Exception’ journey and help ‘Make the Difference’.
Agency Statement
We utilise our Preferred Agency Supplier Partners as and when we require additional support.
Our Sustainability credentials
Check out our sustainability credentials. Did you know all of our wheat is sourced within 50 miles of our factories and 100% of our electricity is generated by renewable energy and not to blow our own trumpet (but why not?!), but we expect to provide 3 million meals each year to Fareshare amp; Magic Breakfast which we are all really proud of.
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