Compliance jobs in United Kingdom

Come and help shape the future of engineering and maintenance at Biffa, the UK’s leader in the circular economy.

This is a high-impact leadership role where you’ll take full ownership of site engineering performance, develop people, embed standards, and directly influence safety, reliability, and cost.

As Engineering Manager, you will be accountable for the safe, reliable and cost-effective performance of all site assets at Aldridge PRF. You’ll lead and develop the onsite engineering team, embed best-practice maintenance standards, and ensure engineering is a trusted partner to Operations.

Reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you’ll be a key member of the site leadership team and play a pivotal role in overall site performance.

This is a role for someone who enjoys ownership, leads with discipline and clarity, and balances short-term uptime with long-term asset health.

• Lead, coach and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team, fostering accountability and high performance
• Create, embed and maintain a strong safety culture, ensuring full compliance with all engineering and H&S standards
• Drive asset reliability through effective preventative maintenance, maintaining PM compliance consistently above 95%
• Reduce breakdowns and reactive maintenance, improving overall plant availability and site performance
• Manage contractors effectively, ensuring safe systems of work and quality delivery
• Carry out Root Cause Analysis and implement sustainable, long-term engineering solutions
• Plan, execute and continuously improve shutdown activities to minimise downtime and risk
• Take ownership of engineering OPEX, contribute to CAPEX planning, embed engineering standards, and ensure best practice is consistently applied

• Proven engineering or maintenance management experience
• Strong H&S leadership in an industrial environment
• Coaching and developmental leadership style
• Commercially aware with understanding of OPEX and CAPEX
• Confident communicator at all levels
• Structured, calm and decisive

• Competitive salary.
• Be part of a business actively transforming engineering and maintenance standards, where engineering is genuinely valued and invested in
• Enjoy real autonomy and trust in a fast-paced environment, with no micromanagement and clear visibility of the impact you make
• Benefit from clear progression opportunities, with structured support for further qualifications including Degrees, MBA, and Level 5 / Level 7 programmes
• IET corporate partnership in place, with professional membership paid and ongoing development fully supported
• Generous pension scheme.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.