Finsbury Food Group
Site Engineering Lead
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Experienced Site Engineering Lead Opportunity
We have an opportunity for an experienced Site Engineering Lead to join the Engineering and Site Senior Leadership team at our highly automated Johnstone’s bakery site, which forms part of the 10 sites currently within the Finsbury Food Group.
This is a fantastic chance to join one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses, who provides some of the top branded products along with outstanding prospects for growth and development. At Finsbury Food Group, we are passionate about investing in our teams; supporting your career to meet its full potential and thrive in our growing group of bakeries. We have an extremely strong investment profile. And continually look for ways to enhance our processes through innovation. This role is ideal for an experienced Engineering Leader looking to join a community of high calibre engineering leaders to deliver demonstrable gains in asset and people excellence. You will be a key leader in the delivery of capital investment in a thriving FMCG business.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering department on site to deliver the departmental and site strategies.
- Maximising OEE through robust leadership of the Engineering shift teams will be crucial to success, so strong leadership and team development capability are essential.
- Represent the site in a community of over ten bakeries sharing best practices in all aspects of asset excellence, delivering across our full balanced scorecard, with strong focus on Safety and Compliance at the forefront of everything you and your team do.
- Another key focus will be maximising OEE through strong leadership of the engineering teams, ensuring high standards of reliability, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
- Build capability across the team by developing talent, strengthening succession pipelines, and embedding a high-performance culture.
- Lead from the front in setting behavioural standards, championing the company’s values and Operational Excellence programme. Using both internal best practice and external insights, you’ll identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency, automation, and overall site performance.
- Manage engineering budgets and resources effectively, ensuring robust financial control, optimised spare parts management, and delivery against key performance targets.
- As the senior engineering lead on site, play a key role in influencing stakeholders and contributing to wider business strategy.
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- Degree or HND qualified in Engineering (or equivalent FMCG manufacturing experience)
- Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment
- Strong track record of driving performance improvement and leading change
- Experience with automation and/or mechatronics within manufacturing
- Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills
- Highly organised with strong project management and problem-solving ability
- Able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational delivery
- Proactive, solutions-focused, and committed to continuous improvement
- Demonstrates strong leadership, accountability, and collaboration
- Open to new ideas and committed to implementing best practice
- Strong IT skills, including Excel and data analysis
- Professional, decisive, and confident working in a fast-paced environment
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