Sofina Foods Europe
Engineering Supervisor
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Summary
Keep engineering moving, keep people safe, and help shape the future of site performance.
The Role
Our new Engineering Shift Supervisor will play a key role in ensuring the safe, reliable and efficient operation of engineering and maintenance activities across the South Quay site.
Working as the link between Engineering and Operations, you will provide effective engineering leadership, ensuring maintenance priorities are delivered while supporting food safety, people safety, site standards and continuous improvement. You will also act as a trusted engineering advisor to site leadership, using data and management information to identify priorities, improve performance and deliver value for money.
This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced engineering professional who can manage people, budgets and priorities while building strong relationships across a busy FMCG environment.
Your Key Responsibilities
The Engineering Shift Supervisor will be responsible for:
- Leading and developing the engineering team, ensuring the right people, skills and resources are in place.
- Acting as a key link between Engineering, Operations, HSE and wider site teams to deliver agreed priorities.
- Using engineering data and management information to identify issues, set priorities and improve site performance.
- Ensuring planned preventative maintenance (PPM) is effective, appropriately managed and continuously improved.
- Maintaining equipment to ensure it operates safely, efficiently and consistently delivers the required quality.
- Supporting the site through customer, HSE, environmental, insurance and food safety audits, ensuring engineering standards remain high.
- Managing and improving the engineering maintenance budget, ensuring effective use of resources and value for money.
- Working with HR and L&D to support recruitment, onboarding, training, performance development and engagement across the engineering team.
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The Ideal Candidate
You will be an experienced engineering leader with the technical knowledge, leadership capability and confidence to operate effectively across a complex FMCG environment.
- Experienced in an engineering leadership or management role, ideally within FMCG or food manufacturing.
- HNC or equivalent qualification in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
- NEBOSH Certificate qualified.
- Electrical qualification equivalent to 16th/17th Edition or above.
- Knowledge of food safety, HACCP and engineering requirements within a food manufacturing environment.
- Experience of working with audits and maintaining an audit-ready site.
- Confident communicator who can influence and work effectively with professional peer groups and senior stakeholders.
- Able to manage competing priorities, projects, budgets and resources across a multi-function environment.
Experience of fish processing or related engineering environments would be advantageous.
Why Sofina Foods?
This is an opportunity to take a key engineering leadership position within a large-scale food manufacturing environment, where your decisions will have a direct impact on people, safety, reliability, food quality and site performance.
You will have the opportunity to develop an engineering team, influence site strategy and work collaboratively across engineering, operations, HSE and wider business functions. With responsibility for engineering priorities, budgets, audits and people development, this role offers genuine scope to make a visible difference to how the site operates.
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Company Information
Sofina Foods isn't just a food company - It’s a place to build your future.
With a team of over 13,000 people across 40 sites in Canada and Europe, we're passionate about delivering quality meats and seafood products to consumers around the world.
Join a company where innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction drive everything we do. At Sofina, you’ll grow your skills, make a real impact, and work with responsibly sourced products from more than 50 protein sources across five continents.
Our vision is bold: to be the most successful food company in the world. If you’re looking for a rewarding career in the food industry, there’s a place for you at Sofina Foods.
Equal Opportunities
Sofina Foods is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences – regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
Location
Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
Hours of Work
Full-time
Company
Sofina Foods
Country Code
GB
AutoReqId
5921BR
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