
Engineering Team Leader
Job Description
Are you an experienced Engineering Team Leader, Lead Engineer or Multi-Skilled Engineer ready to take the next step?
We’re looking for an Engineering Team Leader to join our team at 41 Bakery in Wakefield, leading and supporting a small team of Multi-Skilled Engineers working a 4 on, 4 off shift pattern across days and nights.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll combine your engineering knowledge with your ability to get the best from people.
### The Recipe
No two shifts will be quite the same. You’ll lead and develop a small team of Multi-Skilled Engineers, keeping the bakery running safely and reliably. You’ll coordinate planned and reactive maintenance, tackle more complex engineering issues and work closely with Production to reduce downtime and improve performance.
Alongside the day-to-day, you’ll coach your team, champion safety and encourage new ideas and better ways of working. It’s a hands-on leadership role where you can make a real difference to both your people and the bakery.
### Essential Ingredients
You’ll bring a strong engineering background, but just as importantly, you’ll enjoy working with people and creating a positive, high-performing team.
We’re looking for
- A recognised engineering qualification, such as an apprenticeship, HNC or degree.
- Strong electrical and mechanical engineering knowledge and practical fault-finding experience.
- Experience within a maintenance environment, ideally FMCG, food manufacturing or another fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Good knowledge of engineering health and safety requirements.
- The confidence to make decisions, prioritise work and remain calm when things don’t go to plan.
- Strong communication, coaching and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to build trusted relationships with Engineering and Production colleagues.
- Experience using maintenance systems such as SAP PM, or the ability to learn them quickly.
- PLC and Allen-Bradley fault-finding experience would be advantageous, but it isn’t essential.
- ### Extra Dough
- At last and by no means least 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
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