Company Overview
We are FBC UK, Fox's Burton's Companies! We bake the UK’s most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge).
Location & Work Details
Edinburgh, GBPlace of Work: On-SiteEmployee Shift: Dayshift
About The Role
To provide an effective planned engineering service to our customers through solid controls and innovation in the areas of planned maintenance, stores, and facilities at a sustainable cost, increasing uptime to agreed levels.
Responsibilities
* Budget Control of both R&R and labour.
* Responsible for ensuring safe systems of work, risk assessments, permits, and maintenance of a safe workplace with all employees, contractors and visitors.
* Be part of the engineering management team responsible for operational decision‑making and key performance indicators (KPIs).
* Coordinate activities of engineering planning, facilities, stores and web changes and maintenance.
* Coordinate the activities of the team under your control and ensure adequate training and development is provided.
* Motivate the team to ensure objectives are fully understood and monitor, praise and encourage subordinates in meeting these objectives.
* Operate, through the engineering planner, a Maintenance Management programme directed toward optimising plant availability.
* Control, monitor and review the maintenance, calibration, external service, repair of all production plant and equipment within the maintenance schedules.
* Ensure production work requests are prioritised and executed efficiently (above 75% completion weekly) and work with all departments to deploy maintenance resources effectively.
* Maintain the site infrastructure to an acceptable and audit‑ready standard.
* Manage sufficient stocks of engineering spares to allow maintenance and servicing per manufacture recommendation and planned maintenance requirements.
* Plan web purchases and ensure web condition and standards are met.
* Develop and manage the IT systems for maintenance/production reporting with a plan to hand over production systems.
* Develop the maintenance planning system towards a world‑class system.
* Develop the stores plan and system towards a world‑class system.
* Review and liaise with suppliers about all contracts to seek better service, price and/or standards.
* Work with the HR Department to resolve all grievances quickly and near to the point of origin to avoid formal action.
* Ensure engineering plan, stores management and facilities are working toward world‑class standards.
* Prioritise engineering weekend and web technician resources to minimise site downtime.
Qualifications & Experience
* Relevant Engineering Qualification Degree / Time Served.
* Ability to encourage good employee relations and communication.
* Experience implementing new procedures and practices to improve information communication.
* Ability to rapidly re‑organise according to constantly changing circumstances.
* Ability to work under own initiative.
* Ability to work under pressure and with difficult teams.
* Experience in a fast‑paced production environment.
* Knowledge of planned maintenance systems (Shire).
* Detailed knowledge of using & developing MS Office products, particularly Excel.
* FMCG background (preferably food industry).
* Previous experience leading teams of 10 or more.
Diversity Statement
FBC UK is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at FBC UK. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Management and Engineering
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