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Do you have a strong background working in Maintenance and Manufacturing? Have you previously worked at management level?

Do you have a process engineering background? Raw material in at one end and a product coming out at the other end - For example, Food, Drink, Pharmaceutical etc. If so then please read on

The basics:

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Industry: Process Engineering - Food and Drink

Location: Kempston

Salary: Up to 67,000 DOE

Hours: Monday - Friday - 9.00am to 5.30pm

Structure: Maintenance team consists of 15 and working closely with the plant manager

Pension: Up to 6% pension contribution from the employer

Overview

Working for a large manufacturing business we now require a Engineering Manager / Maintenance Manager to join the dynamic team to ensure the smooth and safe operation of the facility.

The ideal candidate / Engineering Manager / Maintenance Manager may have some of the following, however, please note these are only desirable and not essential as all applications will be looked at individually:

• Previous experience managing and leading a team within a Process Engineering environment - ideally food/drink.
• Must be an influential Leader and have an understanding of the latest maintenance techniques.
• Good communication skills are essential to implement and achieve business objectives.
• An engineering qualification at degree / HND level or equivalent beneficial
• Must be PC literate.

Key duties/responsibilities:

• Establish Maintenance Engineering strategies to achieve the overall production reliability in line with the company goals, KPIs and budgetary objectives.
• Management of all Capital Projects from conception to completion
• Environmental control - responsible dealing with local authorities on environmental and planning issues
• Manage the reliability of the plant through the in house system ensuring improvement of equipment uptime through predictive analysis and assessment.
• Own and develop the PPM system ensuring checks and repairs are carried out on time and effectively by the shift engineers.
• Carry out Root Cause Analysis or critical plant issues suggesting engineering solutions for major downtime incidents.
• Monitor spares for critical equipment to ensure a fast response to breakdowns.
• Conduct equipment life span, obsolescence studies and develop appropriate upgrade / replacement strategies.
• Promote effective communication between internal / external teams
• Maintain a positive Health, Safety and environmental culture in all staff and contractors on site.
• Coach, mentor and support all team members to optimize their performance
• Provide appropriate training and development opportunities for the team
• Carry out performance reviews and disciplinary procedures are required
• Set and monitor objectives for the team to ensure all KPIs are met
• Manage and control departmental expenditure within agreed budgets
• Further details on the role will be discussed at interview

Commutable from Bedford, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Luton, Cambridge and surrounding areas.

If you are interested in the Engineering Manager role, please apply immediately due to the urgency of this role.

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Consilium Recruit are supporting a prestigious and rapidly growing training organisation with the recruitment of an Engineering Lecturer. You will teach and deliver content to engineering apprentices learning and studying on qualifications at Levels 3 & 4. This is a permanent role, working Monday to Friday, offering excellent progression and development.


Commutable from: Oxford, Banbury, Bicester, Thame, Milton Keynes

Salary:  £ Negotiable + Excellent Annual Leave Entitlement + Employer Pension + Supported Training + Salary Sacrifice Private Medical Scheme.


The Role

The Engineering Lecturer will teach and deliver courses to Apprentices at Levels 3 & 4. You will feed into the planning of curriculums based on the apprenticeship requirements, prepare schemes of work, prepare lesson plans and the appropriate resource materials for the learners.

The Engineering Lecturer will teach on a range of engineering topics including mechanical, electrical and multiskilled content in addition to regularly assessing learner progress. You will provide both academic and pastoral support to learners, seeking to continually embed STEM content into your learning.

You will create and maintain a safe and secure learning environment, complying with the relevant Health and Safety requirements in addition to supporting inductions.


The Person

The successful candidate will ideally have experience teaching L3 & L4 Engineering courses to apprentices in a workshop environment or will possess a valid background in manufacturing / engineering and be seeking transfer your knowledge and expertise into a teaching format.

If you have previously taught, you will be conversant with modern learning and teaching methods and hold a teaching qualification for the further education sector such as DET, DTLLS, PGSE or equivalent.

The Engineering Lecturer will possess a minimum of Level 4 Engineering qualification with a focus on engineering in either a teaching or industrially focused work history.

For candidates considering a teaching career, moving from the engineering and manufacturing sectors, this business is incredibly happy to fund and support a teaching qualification as part of your initial training.

You will be required to work onsite in the Academy weekly with a blend between teaching and time for preparation and learner “1-2-1s”. The role is subject to satisfactory completion of background checks including DBS.


To apply, please contact James Colley with a current CV via email.

The role is centred around teaching groups of engineering apprentices, normally with 12-14 in a class. Exact units within which a Lecturer is expected to deliver learning will be dictated by their prior knowledge and experience, however being a small team, you will be expected to deliver a range of engineering disciplines.

The ideal candidate would have industry experience prior to their teaching career and be able to bring that experience into their delivery in an engaging, creative and effective way.

Lecturers teach roughly 80% of their hours with 20% for planning, marking, student meetings etc.

Responsibilities

• Feed into the planning of curriculums for a range of cohorts related to the requirements of the apprenticeships delivered.
li>Prepare all schemes of work, lesson plans and resource materials for the units you are teaching.
• Teach on a range of engineering knowledge units at L3 and L4 (4 only if qualified to HNC). Also, opportunity to teach L2 workshop skills if able and qualified to do so.
• Create and maintain resources needed to teach the course, ensuring they remain up-to-date and accessible to learners.
• Utilise IT and learning technology to deliver elements of the curriculum.
• Feed into the preparation of assessment plans and schedules and ensure learners are aware of expectations.
• Assess learner progress regularly, supporting them both academically and pastorally. Provide written and oral feedback throughout the course and carry out 1to1 progress reviews, including the completion of necessary documents.
• Differentiate delivery to allow access for all regardless of if the learner requires additional support requirements or need extending.
• Embed Maths, English and ICT within the curriculum and your delivery.
• Carry out learner inductions to the course.
• Manage the attendance and achievement of each learner, keeping records up-to-date, including the completion of registers, and other required documentation.
• Ensure a safe and secure learning environment and comply with all relevant Health and Safety regulations.
• Implement all Safeguarding, Prevent and other relevant policies.
• Involvement in the wider company, apprenticeship delivery or any other duties as may be reasonably required.

Person specification

• Experience teaching L3 & ideally L4 knowledge units in an FE environment. Also interested in candidates who have experience teaching L2 workshop skill units.
• Minimum of a Level 3 Engineering qualification ideally encompassing both Mechanical and Electrical/Electronic elements.
• A teaching qualification for the FE sector, e.g. DET, DTLLS, PGCE or equivalent.
• Up-to-date knowledge of the developments within the Engineering sector and in the practises of teaching and learning.
• Up-to-date knowledge of apprenticeships and how the qualifications fit into the wider programme.
• Able to deliver all aspects of the learning process including preparation, planning, delivery, assessment, and evaluation.
• Be committed to inclusive learning, ensuring use of the very best practice to meet individual learner needs including the promotion of equal opportunities and differentiated learning for those with SEND.

Benefits:

• 36 days holiday including Bank Holidays. (Part-time pro-rata of FT)
li>Company laptop and mobile phone
• Access to training
• Company pension
• Death in Service Cover
• Access to Wecare wellbeing support
• Salary sacrifice private health care
• Cycle to Work Scheme.

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Engineering Supervisor -  TRAINING AND UNRESTRICTED PROGRESSION. 

Salary:  £60,000 + Bonus

Monday to Friday DAYS 

Location: Northampton 

We are currently recruiting for a gigantic blue chip brand within the FMCG manufacturing sector, who are looking for an Engineering Supervisor at their brand new site! Our client is looking to take on an  Engineering Supervisor to provide support to the engineering manager on a brand new site. Our client has remained dominant in the FMCG market due to the sheer size and reputation of the business. From the moment you step on site you are sorrounded by the highest of engineering standards, as a lead maintenance engineer you will be working within an engineering team that have expert knowledge in regards to mechanical and electrical components. Our client offers job security to its maintenance engineers and training opportunity to develop skillset.  Our client has a fully automated site with world class machinery and is able to offer competitive pay strucutures with regular pay rises. 

Skills acquired to be an Engineering Supervisor:

• The successful Engineering Supervisor must be happy to be hands on
• The successful Engineering Supervisor must have management or supervisory experience
• The successful Engineering Supervisor must be from a manufacturing or automated background 
• The successful Engineering Supervisor must have a minimum NVQ Level 3
• The successful Engineering Supervisor must be able to carry out Modifications to PLCs (Siemens)

The Engineering Supervisor will benefit from:

• Competitive salary and regular pay reviews. 
• World class manufacturing status.
• Private healthcare.
• Blue-Chip Company.
• Specialist’s OEM training.

Benefits:  Private pension, Specialist OEM training, £60,000 + OT

Commutable:  Kettering, Thrapston, Wellingborough, Corby.

If you are interested in this role and feel that you have the right skills then please click apply at the bottom of this advert.

For further details contact Adem Halil 

 Are you an experienced Engineering Manager with specific experience of managing the design, planning & manufacturing function of a British precision engineered components manufacturer?
If yes, this role based in Leicester offers a great package and a chance to be part of our senior management team as we continue to grow the business.
 
BASIC SALARY: up to £75,000
 
BENEFITS:  Annual Bonuses of up to £,000 + ,000 Car Allowance + senior management benefits package.
 
LOCATION: Factory based in Leicester you will be commutable or prepared to relocate.
 
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Leicester, Nottingham, Coventry, Northampton, Birmingham, Derby, Peterborough
 
JOB DESCRIPTION: Engineering Manager / Technical / Production / Manufacturing
A classic Engineering Manager role with responsibility for 5 to 6 direct reports and circa 30 staff in total with responsibility for Design, Machining, Fabrication & Assembly, Production planning & Logistics.
Your role will be to improve efficiency with a particular focus on production planning & to co ordinate the different functions in the engineering team by providing strong leadership.
Reporting to the owners you will be given autonomy and will be expected to identify problems AND solutions to them and to your team as well as mentoring your line managers and working closely with the other members of the senior management team to drive continuing business growth and profitability.
 
PERSON SPECIFICATION:  Engineering Manager / Technical / Production / Manufacturing
· You MUST have a proven track record as an Engineering / Technical / Operations Manager and will have managed a similar sized team across the Design, Manufacturing & Production planning functions for a manufacturing company.
· You WILL ideally have direct experience with a precision engineering components manufacturer.
· Any specific knowledge of the packaging machinery industry would be advantageous.
· You will be happy to work autonomously and will be a strong leader.
· You will be a qualified mechanical or manufacturing engineer.
· Lastly you will have knowledge of both ERP & CAD / SolidWorks.
 
THE COMPANY:  Engineering Manager / Technical / Production / Manufacturing
A very well established & market leading British manufacturer of precision engineered components supplying packaging machinery OEM`s & food & general industry end users.
This is a really nice place to work with very low staff turnover.
 
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.
 
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.
 
REF: MPH18233
 
 
 

Embark on a transformative journey as an Engineering Manager Production Network Engineering at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness describe an aspect of the team or role technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

Production Network Engineering is a new mission aligned operating model within the newly formed Network Product Design & Engineering domain at Barclays. Network Product Design & Engineering is responsible for the design, build and run of the underlying strategic network infrastructure platforms and the over-the-top connectivity products and services that enable colleagues, guests and partners.

To be successful in this role as an Engineering Manager – Production Network Engineering, you should possess the following skillsets:

• Extensive experience as an individual contributor and a leader of teams that design , build and operate network products across all 7 layers of the OSI stack from physical through to virtual. Specialist understanding of Layer 1 - 4 Protocols for example G.9802.1/WDM, Ethernet, VXLAN, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, Access Transport for example PON, xDSL, DOCSIS, FWA, Wireless Standards for example Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G, MEF Standards for example CE.3.0, LSO, Overlay IP/VPN technologies for example RFC2547bis, RFC7432, RFC8365/RFC9746, Software Defined Networking and Network Instrumentation technologies for example gNMI/gRPC, Y.1731, Y.1564, TWAMP

• Experience of virtual infrastructure ecosystems for example Openstack, Kubernetes, QEMU, KVM, HCI across Cloud Platforms (Public/Private/Hybrid) and uCPE Platforms (x86, aRM), including open networking technologies for example routing daemons (FRR, Bird, GoBGP), ONF stack, LINUX Networking (eBFF, VPP, AF_XDP), DENT, SONiC or Cumulus

• Experience in network programming/automation, IaC, configuration management tools and data modelling for example RESTCONF, NETCONF/YANG, Python, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM; with demonstrable experience of DevOps, agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Experience working in Network and infrastructure operational product engineering and knowledge of classical network element management, SDN Controllers and ETSI MANO. A very good understanding of Application Layer Network Protocols - HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, DNS, DHCP, CCIE or equivalent certification an added advantage

• Experience in Network Access control (NAC) and RADIUS based AAA for secure and automated access supporting Corporate and Guests users, including experience with concepts of zero trust networking

• Skilled in lifecycle management of network products and services including requirements analysis, platform selection, technical architecture design, service design & development, testing and deployment at scale, including proficiency in Agile Methodologies Scrum/Kanban, backlog and workflow mgmt. and SRE specific reporting (MTTR, deployment frequency, SLO).

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our London office.

Purpose of the role

To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Accountabilities

• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.