Engineering Team Leader – Location: Wirral | Salary: GBP55,000 basic | Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off days / 6AM – 6PM
Benefits
- 24 shifts holiday
- Employee assistance program
- Life assurance x4
- Enhanced pension
- Strong progression pathway toward management roles
- Continuous training, OEM courses, and technical development
About
We're looking for an experienced Engineering Team Leader to join a high performing manufacturing site and play a key role in maintaining and optimising production performance. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior engineer ready to step up, or an established team leader looking for a new challenge within a well invested, forward thinking operation.
You will lead a small on shift engineering team, drive reliability, support continuous improvement, and ensure equipment uptime across fast paced FMCG lines.
Responsibilities
- Leading and developing a team of engineers across the shift
- Prioritising and delegating maintenance tasks to maximise efficiency
- Supporting planned, reactive, and preventative maintenance across production assets
- Ensuring full compliance with site H and S procedures (permits, RAMS, audits)
- Working with automation, packaging, and processing equipment (conveyors, robotics, weighing, vision systems, thermoformers, etc.)
- Working closely with senior engineering leadership to improve performance, downtime, and reliability
- Supporting training, skills gap development, and contractor management
- Balancing hands‑on and hands‑off duties depending on operational needs
Requirements
- Strong electrical bias (or multiskilled with strong electrical capability)
- Proven engineering experience within FMCG, manufacturing or food production
- Level 3 or above in Engineering + relevant electrical certification (18th Edition ideal)
- Confident fault‑finding on PLC‑controlled systems (any brand considered)
- Good knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, sensors, motors, and inverters
- Experience supervising or leading small teams (official or unofficial)
- Strong communicator with good initiative and problem‑solving ability
Nice to Have
- PLC programming exposure
- CI / improvement experience
- OEM liaison experience
- Health and Safety qualifications
Equal Opportunity
No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
