Engineering Manager - Manufacturing
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We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Nuneaton factory and play a critical role in how PROPER SNACKS delivers safe, reliable and scalable manufacturing. As a member of the Factory leadership team, this role owns engineering strategy, asset care and people capability, enabling Operations and Quality to perform at their best today while preparing the site for future growth.
The Person:
This person is a visible, values-led leader who takes ownership for safety, standards and performance on the factory floor. They are data-driven and improvement-focused, with a strong bias for prevention over reaction. They balance strategic thinking with hands-on leadership and are motivated by developing people, eliminating failure and building robust systems that scale with the business.
The Role:
The Engineering Manager leads all site engineering activity, ensuring assets, systems and people are aligned to deliver safe, compliant and reliable manufacturing. The role is accountable for engineering performance, team capability, asset care, CAPEX delivery and cross-functional alignment across the Nuneaton site.
Responsibilities:
People & Culture
Establish and manage a skilled, motivated engineering team across all shifts.
Enhance engineering expertise through the implementation of skills matrices, succession planning, and tailored development initiatives.
Foster a robust safety culture within engineering by demonstrating leadership presence, providing comprehensive training, and ensuring clear accountability.
Promote effective collaboration with Operations, Quality, and Supply Chain functions.
Accountability for engineering capability depth and talent pipeline.
Responsibility for engineering succession planning and critical role preparedness.
Safety, Quality & Compliance
Promote high standards for Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental compliance throughout all engineering activities.
Ensure that engineering systems effectively support food safety, hygiene requirements, and audit preparedness (e.g., BRC, ISO45001).
Maintain statutory compliance across plant, equipment, and infrastructure.
Establish and consistently apply machinery standards and safe working practices.
The single point of accountability for engineering compliance risk at the site.
Formalise the governance and ownership of engineering change control processes.
Reliability & Delivery
Own the site asset care strategy, improving reliability, availability and OEE
Lead effective Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) and CMMS-driven maintenance systems
Drive structured fault elimination through root cause analysis and data-led decision making
Reduce unplanned downtime by eliminating repeat failures and improving asset condition
Track, analyse and act on engineering KPI
Cost, CAPEX & Productivity
Manage engineering and maintenance spend within agreed budgets
Deliver engineering-led productivity and waste-reduction initiatives
Lead delivery and accountable for benefits realisation of engineering and infrastructure CAPEX projects
Implement effective contractor management and cost-tracking processes
Strategy, Sustainability & Future Readiness
Provide engineering input into the Nuneaton 2030 transformation roadmap
Define asset criticality and support business continuity planning
Support sustainability initiatives through asset and infrastructure improvements
Embed Builders Toolkit principles into engineering standards, projects and team development
Requirements:
HNC or higher in Mechanical, Electrical or related Engineering discipline
Proven experience leading engineering teams in a manufacturing or FMCG environment
Strong knowledge of asset care, PPM systems and CMMS
Experience delivering engineering projects and CAPEX
Commercial awareness with experience managing budgets and contractors
Confident communicator able to influence across Operations, Quality and senior stakeholders
A people-centred leadership style aligned to PROPER SNACKS values
About PS:
PROPER SNACKS is the home of PROPER and Eat Real. The UKs fastest-growing major snacks company.
Were a diverse team of builders, thinkers, creators and makers -?based in London and Nuneaton and serving snackers across Europe. Our brilliant team are united by an insatiable curiosity and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit.At PROPER SNACKS, we dont sit still. We scale fast, dream big and back our people to make stuff happen. Our values keep us grounded:?Be builder. Dream bigger. Seriously fun.
Whether you're joining us in London where the brands are built, and big ideas take flight. Or in Nuneaton where magic happens in our factory and every bag gets made youll be part of a team shaking up the snacking world.Get a flavour of what life is like at PROPER SNACKS here. xsngvjr
LDN Drummond Street London NW1 3HP
NUN Townsend Dr Nuneaton CV11 6TJ
Our Approach:
PROPER and Eat Real is an equal opportunities employer and we do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the recruitment or interview process.