Shift Maintenance Lead Engineer

🛠️ 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:

• Lead a team of engineers, driving accountability, performance, and engagement.

• Promote a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with IOSH and H&S regulations.

• Collaborate with production, quality, and CI teams to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Report on KPIs and contribute to strategic planning and budget management.

🎯 Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Apprentice trained with a minimum of an HNC in Engineering (electrical or mechanical).

• Proven experience as a Maintenance Lead Engineer within a food or FMCG manufacturing environment.

• Strong working knowledge of automation systems, conveyors, packaging machinery, and production lines.

• Demonstrates a proactive and safety-conscious mindset, ideally holding an IOSH qualification.

• Strong leadership skills – able to motivate and inspire engineering teams.

• Experienced in driving CI/Lean manufacturing initiatives (5S, root cause analysis, Kaizen, etc.).

💡 Why Join Us?

• A supportive, progressive culture focused on development and results.

• Opportunities to shape and improve site engineering strategy.

• 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.