Package Description
Job title: Engineering Team Leader
Location: Edinburgh, EH11 4HN
Contract type: Permanent
Work pattern: Pitman shift pattern including days and nights (6-6)
Salary: £51,886.64
Start date: ASAP
About the role
To Lead, organise and develop the Shift Engineering Team. Ensure daily preventative maintenance activities are completed to a high standard, breakdowns are resolved quickly and efficiently and to take the lead on more complex maintenance tasks, ensuring required parts are available and be responsible for a detailed handover to the next shift team.
A key part of the role will be supporting the Shift Operations Management teams providing technical information to production to ensure engineering work is correctly prioritised and decisions are based upon sound technical information.
To represent engineering and update at short interval control meetings with our production team, ensuring effective communication between engineering and other key stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead an engineering team to support the operation of the plant, prioritising their work and ensuring the delivery of planned and improvement work as well as reactive.
- Support the development of the engineering team members to ensure they achieve the goals and targets agreed in their role.
- Ensure that all shift documentation and Handovers are up to date and accurate.
- Ensure that the Shift Team updates all Maintenance systems and records accurately and in a timely manner.
- Support the Operations Shift Management team by providing accurate technical detail for handovers and participate in decision making.
- Escalate issues for external support as required.
- Attend Short interval control meetings representing the Engineering function, providing updates on current Engineering work.
- Ensure plant is safe to operate and maintain and engineers conform to health and safety legislation, policies, and standards.
- Work within the framework of a group wide engineering reliability strategy
- Maintain equipment in line with relevant food safety legislation.
- Responsible for PTW and contractor control when required, ensuring that SWP are adhered to.
- Responsible for organising your teams’ holidays, and sickness policy including RTW.
- Application and adherence to Good Manufacturing Practice interns your own and your teams work and the condition of the Engineering workshop and other controlled areas.
- Personally perform mechanical and electrical trades as qualified to maintain your own skills and ensure work completion.
- To undertake training & up-skilling programs as directed by business needs and to keep abreast of technological advancements.
- You may be required to support Safety or Quality, or disciplinary Incident investigations.
What we need from you
- Time served in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering disciplines.
- IOSH (desirable)
- Food safety/Hygiene qualification (desirable)
- Knowledge of planned maintenance systems (Shire)
- Detailed knowledge of using & developing MS Office products, particularly Excel.
- Manufacturing background (preferably food industry)
- Demonstrable experience of leadership and coordination of a team
- Ability to solve problems using a logical thought process and implement solutions to prevent reoccurrence.
- To undertake self-measurement and development as appropriate.
- Ability to work consistently to high standards and prioritise tasks according to workload.
- The jobholder will be able to show evidence in being able to operate under pressure in a fast-moving technical environment.
- Sound decision making skills.
- The ability to work as part of a multi-faceted team or independently as the situation demands
- Must be able to demonstrate a flexible skill set fully exploiting cross or multi skill elements of training without trade demarcation.
- To be fully conversant and compliant with site Permit to Work and Isolation procedures.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Private healthcare
- Life insurance plan
- Enhanced pension offering
- Opportunities for progression
If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so
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