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Engineering Manager

to £60,000
Plymouth
Food Manufacturing
Job ref: 8815

The company

A truly wonderful and unique family-owned, well-established and expanding company that has cutting edge environmental initiatives and supplies their quality products into the national retail and local food service markets.

About the Engineering Manager job

Very much a hands-on role that might be a step up opportunity for the right experienced individual. Reporting into the Directors, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of engineering, mechanical and electrical activities on site.

Key tasks

Planned preventative maintenance.

Partaking in weekly KPI management meetings.

Delegating tasks to and managing the engineering team of 3/4 people.

Breakdown repair.

Ensuring there are safe systems of work for your team.

Management of new project implementation and design alongside the owners.

About You

You might be an Engineering Supervisor or a Multiskilled Engineer looking to take the next step up, but you will have an FMCG background, preferably in food production.

Qualified to Level 5 NVQ, HND or Foundation Degree, as a minimum, in electrical or mechanical engineering.

Health & Safety qualifications such as NEBOSH or IOSH, together with food safety and hygiene knowledge.

Good experience of electrics - 3 phase distribution, switching and motors, low voltage systems, including fault finding.

Ideally good working knowledge of pneumatics, boilers & steam systems, pumps and pumping systems.

Knowledge and experience of refrigeration / HVAC and lean manufacturing techniques will be a massive bonus!

More details

The Engineering Manager job is based in Plymouth and is paying to up to £60,000 according to your experience.

This is essentially a Monday to Friday job with flexible hours to suit but there is a rota for evenings and Sundays since this is a 24/7 operation.

Alternate job titles

Engineering Supervisor | Senior Engineer | Food Manufacturing Engineering Jobs | Multi-skilled Engineer | Food Industry Engineering Jobs | Maintenance Engineer | Manufacturing Engineer | Production Engineer | FMCG Engineer | Multiskilled Engineer

This role is commutable from Plymouth, Tavistock, Saltash, Totnes, Salcombe and South Cornwall