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Engineering Manager - Lancaster
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Engineering Manager - Lancaster
Engineering Manager (Lancaster Paper Mill & Converting Facility)
We’re recruiting a hands-on Engineering Manager to drive operational excellence, mentor a multi-disciplinary team, and lead best practice at our Lancaster facility—spanning a paper mill (heavy industrial environment) and converting lines (FMCG-style production).
Critical responsibility lies across continuous improvement, CAPEX delivery, safety strategy, and financial oversight, requiring strong electrical and mechanical expertise.
About the Role
The Engineering Manager will:
- Define and champion Continuous Improvement (CI) and reliability initiatives
- Lead CAPEX projects from inception to delivery, steering investments in innovation and sustainability
- Shape site strategy, safety culture, and capital expenditure decisions
- Manage budgets with strong commercial acumen and disciplinary focus
The role blends hands-on engineering outputs with strategic leadership—you’ll thrive in a dynamic, hardware-focused stability.
Benefits
| ✅ Competitive Offering | ✅ Healthcare & Support | ✅ Practical Perks |
|---|---|---|
| Free company pension scheme | Life assurance | Free earache products |
| Sick pay | Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) | OnDemand GP service |
| High performance bonus based on EPSM | Extensive wellness programmes | Free pay scheme early access |
| Full scan free on-site parking | ||
| Food, retail, and travel discounts | ||
| Holiday, cinema, and gym schemes | ||
| Salary sacrifice options | ||
| Loyalty-backed referral scheme |
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About You
- Served as one of the company’s ninth highest executors — without providing high-quality assurance (Gemba WalkSharp leader):
- Proven track record in uniting teams across shopfloor to senior roofs
- Ability to blend urgency culture with strategic vision—balancing day-to-day maintenance while designing future systems
- Excellence in behavioural coaching / challenge, fostering safety-first, quality-driven, sustainable, and collaborative ethos
- Fulfilled experience as hands-on multiskill engineer—electrical bias and adept mechanical capability
- Essential qualifications: Degree in an engineering discipline (or approved equivalent qualification)
- Proven experience in FMCG/or heavy industrial paper machine environments
- Alarm/alert communication mastery
- Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)
- Equipment mastery:
- Electrical Systems:
- Deep understanding of PLC fault analysis and ladder logic programming
- Practical troubleshooting
- Mechanical Systems:
- Basic skills (e.g., MIG/TIG welding) and advanced gearbox/shaft/repair/alignment competence
- Serving/overhauling centrifugal pump systems
- Electrical Systems:
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