Engineering Team Leader

Warburtons Limited; Enfield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bakery company in Enfield is seeking a Team Leader in Engineering to manage a team of Multi Skilled Engineers. The role focuses on driving the team's effectiveness in reducing downtime and ensuring high-quality maintenance. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills and leadership experience, fostering a culture of safety and innovation.

Benefits

Discretionary profit share

Extended holiday entitlement

Award-winning pension scheme

Life assurance

Employee discounts

Investment in personal development

Free physiotherapy access

Comprehensive occupational health service

Qualifications

• Experience in FMCG environment preferred.
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation.
• Ability to develop effective relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage and engage a team of Multi Skilled Engineers.
• Ensure completion of preventative maintenance activities.
• Lead on complex maintenance tasks.

Skills

Leadership skills

Technical engineering knowledge

Coaching and mentoring skills

Analysing and problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Electrical and Mechanical engineering experience

Education

Apprenticeship/HNC/degree in Engineering

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

We are looking for a Team Leader in Engineering to support a small but experienced team of 3 shift-based Multi-Skilled Engineers working 4 on, 4 off, days and nights.

The Recipe

As an Engineering Team Leader at our Enfield bakery, you’ll support the delivery of planned and preventative maintenance. This role is a lead position in a critical area of our Engineering team, you’ll be prepared to be hands on and roll your sleeves up. You will train and coach our operations team with autonomous maintenance. Innovation, accountability, good leadership skills coupled with technical engineering knowledge is essential for the role.

Our Engineering teams are encouraged to foster new ideas and perspectives whilst driving change at a pace; we’re looking for you to make a personal impact, have passion and inspire a team whilst recognising successes and rewarding that along the way. We are proud of our safety record and our Engineers lead by example in all that they do; quality and safety are the values we live by and we’re looking to find that passion in you.

The Role

You’ll manage, develop and engage a small team of 3 Multi Skilled Engineers to drive the effectiveness of the engineering team in reducing downtime and increasing productivity. You’ll ensure daily preventative maintenance activities are completed to a high standard, breakdowns are resolved quickly and efficiently to maximise plant reliability, performance, product quality and safety. You will take the lead on more complex maintenance tasks, ensure required parts are available and be responsible for a detailed handover to the next shift team. As part of your role, you’ll also lead the short interval control meetings with our production team.

• Ensure plant is safe to operate and maintain and personnel conform to health and safety legislation, policies and standards
• Lead an engineering team to support the day to day operation by delivering planned and reactive maintenance to achieve engineering KPIs.
• Work within the framework of a Business led engineering reliability strategy
• Effective use of SAP PM
• Maintain equipment in line with relevant food safety legislation.
• Support the recruitment, motivation and development of an engineering team to ensure they achieve the goals and targets agreed in their role profiles and performance review meetings.
• Structured and practical engineering training (e.g. apprenticeship/HNC/degree).
• Knowledge and experience of maintenance preferably in an FMCG environment.
• H&S knowledge e.g., PUWER, IOSH – able to ensure a safe working environment.
• Electrical and Mechanical engineering experience
• Communicating skills is articulate/develops effective, long-term relationships with key people.
• Coaching and mentoring skills, takes responsibility for the training and coaching of others.
• Analysing and problem-solving skills, anticipates problems before they occur and takes steps to deal with them/correctly and swiftly identifies the underlying problem and finds appropriate solutions.
• Uses project management techniques to create effective plans with milestones/identifies areas of risk and plan contingency/monitors and communicates work and project progress.
• Makes timely decisions/takes account of the wider risks and implications.

Extra Dough

Last but by no means least, you’ll want to know what your breads worth.

• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we’ll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
• Award winning pension scheme with company contributions
• Life assurance
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.