Engineering Team Leader

The Recipe

As an Engineering Team Leader at our Eastwood bakery, you’ll support the delivery of planned and preventative maintenance. This role is a lead position, but you’ll be prepared to be hands on and roll your sleeves up.  Good leadership skills coupled with technical engineering knowledge is essential for the role. 

The Role

You’ll develop and lead 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.

Essential Ingredients

• Electrical or Mechanical engineering experience
• Fault Finding and Route Cause Analysis skills
• Knowledge and experience of maintenance preferably in an FMCG or manufacturing environment.
• People Management Skills
• H&S knowledge e.g., PUWER, IOSH – able to ensure a safe working environment.
• Structured and practical engineering training (e.g. apprenticeship/HNC/degree).
• 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
• Communication and relationship building skills
• Successful candidates must have, or be eligible to obtain, the right to work in the UK before commencing employment.

Extra Dough

Here's some of the benefits that you can enjoy!

• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement of 6.6 weeks, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase additional days
• 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 including savings on meals out, holidays, retail and much more!
• 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
• Access to 24-hour virtual GP through our Help at Hand App which also includes counselling and life coaching sessions.
• Free on-site parking
• Canteen
• Cycle to work scheme
• Payroll giving scheme