Engineering Manager

Chippenham, Wiltshire
Questech Recruitment Ltd

Our client is a successful and well-established manufacturer. They are looking for an Engineering Manager to coordinate and manage the engineering team, along with involvement with engineering projects.

NOTE The start date for this role is likely to be in September / October 2025, so if you have a 3 month notice period please still apply.

PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:

• Minimum of 5 years experience of managing engineering activity in a manufacturing / FMCG / Production environment.
• Experience of managing teams of over 15 people.
• Proven capability of setting and managing budgets more than £2m/year.
• You have an ONC/HNC Engineering qualification.
• Recognised management qualification e.g. NVQ, ILM, CMI.
• NEBOSH General Certificate.
• IOSH Managing Safely.
• Computer literacy to a high level.

Job Details:

• Salary depending on experience (to be discussed if your application is shortlisted).
• Access to a Pool car + Other benefits.
• Hours of work: Monday to Friday days with possible out of hours support via telephone or personal attendance on site to manage any significant issues beyond the authority/capability of on site personnel.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety policies, procedures, and legislation and ensure that all work is undertaken to the highest Health & Safety standard.
• Implement and maintain an asset management program to cover all manufacturing equipment and services.
• Control engineering and toolroom spending and ensure adherence to budgets.
• Engineering stores and workshop management including stock control, purchasing, spares availability and housekeeping.
• Manage and control contracts in line with procedures from specification writing to installation.
• Management and control of contractors on site to ensure compliance with company safety and environmental policies.
• Assess downtime trends to identify areas of weakness and in conjunction with production function develop plans to reduce breakdowns and improve equipment reliability.
• Strengthen overall leadership and capabilities for the engineering function.
• Build and sustain a high-performance engineering and site services team and ensure strong alignment and coordination with Production function and other functional groups.
• Champion the application of maintenance excellence methodology.
• Develop and maintain a maintenance KPI dashboard in engineering and toolroom.
• Managing compliance to requirements of ISO14001.
• Develop and manage the AGILITY CMMS system.

This job would suit people with similar previous job titles such as; Senior Engineering Manager / Engineering Supervisor / Head of Engineering / Site Manager / Engineering Lead / Engineering Leader / Project Engineer / Lead Engineer / Maintenance Manager / Maintenance Supervisor / etc.