Shift Maintenance Lead Engineer

Maintenance Lead - FMCG/Food Manufacturing

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Location:

Blackpool
💼 Salary: £63k + Benefits + Bonus
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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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.).

• 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