️ Maintenance Lead – FMCG/Food Manufacturing
📍 Location: Blackpool
💼 Salary: £63k + Benefits + Bonus
🕒 Hours: Continental shifts days and nights
Are you a driven Maintenance Lead Engineer with a strong background in food manufacturing or FMCG? Do you have a passion for motivating teams, delivering performance, and driving continuous improvement? If so, this could be the ideal opportunity for you.
🔧 About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Maintenance shift Lead Engineer to lead a multi-skilled engineering team within a high-paced production environment. This role is critical to ensuring uptime, maintaining safety standards, and embedding a culture of CI and lean practices across the department.
✅ Key Responsibilities:
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Lead a team of engineers, driving accountability, performance, and engagement.
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Promote a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with IOSH and H&S regulations.
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Collaborate with production, quality, and CI teams to identify opportunities for improvement.
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Report on KPIs and contribute to strategic planning and budget management.
🎯 Ideal Candidate Profile:
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Apprentice trained with a minimum of an HNC in Engineering (electrical or mechanical).
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Proven experience as a Maintenance Lead Engineer within a food or FMCG manufacturing environment.
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Strong working knowledge of automation systems, conveyors, packaging machinery, and production lines.
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Demonstrates a proactive and safety-conscious mindset, ideally holding an IOSH qualification.
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Strong leadership skills – able to motivate and inspire engineering teams.
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Experienced in driving CI/Lean manufacturing initiatives (5S, root cause analysis, Kaizen, etc.).
💡 Why Join Us?
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A supportive, progressive culture focused on development and results.
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Opportunities to shape and improve site engineering strategy.
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Work in a collaborative environment with an emphasis on safety, quality, and innovation.
Ready to lead, develop, and make a difference?
Apply now to take the next step in your maintenance leadership career