Company description:
At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations'? worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 150 years.
Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention. It is part of our philosophy to provide honest good sense on issues of health and well-being, helping the whole family to enjoy our products as part of a healthy, balanced diet, through a range of products to suit all meal occasions, lifestyles and tastes.
Job description:
Job Title: Asset Care Lead
Location: Wakefield (Tuscany Park)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Up to £65,000
Are you ready to step into an Asset Care Lead role, bringing your experience, steady leadership, and personal touch to help our team and site thrive?
The Recipe As a key member of the Asset Care team, you will play a central role in delivering the sites Maintenance Plan and ensuring the effective day-to-day management of our days-based engineering team. This position combines hands-on technical involvement with proactive leadership, driving high standards of safety, reliability, and performance across all maintenance activities. Youll champion best practice, support continuous improvement, and help create a culture where our engineers can thrive and the site can operate at its best.
The Role Were looking for a leader who will champion safety across all engineering activities, ensuring full adherence to relevant standards for both internal teams and external contractors. You will lead a team of days-based Engineers, driving capability through effective training plans, individual development, and regular performance reviews. In this role, youll take ownership of resource management for the Days shift, ensuring the allocation, delivery, and quality of all engineering tasks that support plant reliability, product quality, and safety in line with our Engineering Strategy and company standards. Strong communication is essential, as youll be responsible for maintaining seamless handovers between days and shift-based Engineering teams. You will also oversee contractor activity to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient execution of work. Above all, you will uphold compliance with quality and food safety legislation, company standards, and specifications to meet all professional and legal requirements
Essential Ingredients Desirable Food & Drink Advanced Engineering L5 Apprenticeship;
Desirable - Eng Tech Standard Accredited
Structured and practical engineering training (e.g. apprenticeship/HNC/degree).
Knowledge and experience of maintenance in an FMCG environment.
H&S/Food Safety systems & legislation knowledge e.g. IOSH able to ensure a safe working environment.
IT knowledge able to use widespread functions within relevant software inc. Microsoft Office, SAP and PLCs
Communication skills articulate/develops effective, long-term relationships with key people.
Coaching & Mentoring skills takes responsibility for training & coaching of Team Members
Analysing and problem-solving skills anticipates problems before they occur, takes steps to deal with them/correctly & swiftly identifies the underlying problem & appropriate solutions, based on analysis of data
Decision making skills works collaboratively to make decisions with the input of the wider team
Extra Dough At last and by no means yeast you will want to know what your breads worth.
A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
Award winning pension scheme with company contributions of 7%
Life assurance
Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
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
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.
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