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While practical support may be needed during critical escalations, your primary focus is leadership. You will coordinate day-to-day maintenance activities, ensuring the maximum effectiveness of your team to drive plant reliability and performance. Furthermore, you will own the post-breakdown resolution process, following up with robust, '100-year fixes' to completely eliminate recurring faults, and champion continuous improvement across the site.\nAs our Engineering Team Lead you will be responsible for…\nSafety First: Champion a robust safety culture on shift, ensuring all engineering duties, tasks, and contractor activities adhere strictly to site safety, and hygiene standards. Safety is always the number 1 priority.\nAsset Performance: Lead the shift team to maximize OEE on high-speed filling lines, focusing on swift breakdown resolution (MTTR reduction), proactive fault elimination, and robust execution of both Corrective and Preventative Maintenance schedules.\nTeam Leadership & Morale: Drive, motivate, and empower your shift team. Foster high team morale, clear communication, and strong engagement across the shift.\nPerformance Management: Set clear expectations and quarterly priorities for the team.\nManage day-to-day team performance, conduct regular 1-to-1s, and support individual development using AG Barr's performance management framework.\nBreakdown Resolution: Take ownership of major equipment failures by leading Root cause Analysis (RCA) and completing Major Breakdown Reports (MBRs), ensuring sustainable corrective actions are executed to prevent recurrence.\nOperational Execution & Handovers: Lead the daily engineering shift handover and morning meetings. Coordinate shift activities, allocate work orders, and drive efficiency and site performance while on shift.\nLeader Standard Work (LSW): Rigorously carry out Leader Standard Work tasks, ensuring engineering routines, audits, work order reviews, and operational standards are consistently met.\nContinuous Improvement: Champion site-wide continuous improvement through AG Barr’s operational excellence framework 'Brilliance in the Making', leveraging data-driven insights and downtime analysis to maximize equipment reliability and elevate OEE performance.\nTechnical Support & Escalation: Step in with practical technical guidance or brief hands-on troubleshooting when critical equipment issues require it, acting as the technical authority for shift escalation Engineering Team Leadership & Development\nTalent and Skill Development: Coach and empower your technicians to maximize team capability. You will actively build the shift's skillset by leading engineering recruitment, identifying skill gaps, and delivering structured training plans and PDPs to nurture top talent.\nWhat you’ll bring…\nLeadership & People Management: Proven experience leading and developing an engineering team within a fast-paced manufacturing environment (FMCG / Food & Beverage preferred).\nTechnical Qualification: Minimum HNC / ONC (or equivalent) in Mechanical, Electrical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering.\nBreakdown & Problem-Solving Expertise: Strong experience using structured problem-solving methodologies, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and generating detailed post-breakdown documentation (MBRs).\nSafety Mindset: Strong understanding of health and safety regulations (Nebosh / IOSH Managing safety qualification is desirable) with an unwavering commitment to safe working practices. \nOperational Drive: Experience using Leader Standard Work (LSW), leading dailyshift/engineering meetings, and driving shift performance against targets/KPIs.\nFlexibility: Fully comfortable working a 3 on 3 off rotating days and nights shift pattern\nProven track record of operating at engineering leadership level within a food manufacturing environment or FMCG\nFamiliarity with reliability standards (e.g., ISO 9001, ISO 55000) and methodologies such as FMEA, RCM, and FTA.\nExperience and understanding of Google and CMMS.\nExperience working in a multi-skilled engineering environment\nExperience of contributing to a multi-functional operational management team\nWhat we offer…\nWe believe in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where your voice can be heard. Our skilled, loyal and committed people are critical to the future success of AG Barr which is why we are continually investing in our employees to develop their talent.\nWe look after our employees by offering a competitive salary and benefits package which includes;\nUp to 34 days holiday (depending on shift pattern)\nFlexible holiday trading\nLiving Wage Employer\nHealthcare Cash Plan\nPeppy Health\nFlexible benefits e.g. discounts & cashback, gym memberships, technology purchases etc\nLife assurance\nSave as you earn scheme\nStaff sales discount\nFree AG Barr products throughout your working day\nPension\nAnnual salary review \nOngoing professional development\nAnd much more!\nTo find out more about what it is like to work for AG Barr, please visit our careers platformhere.\nWe are an equal opportunities employer and happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that may be needed for successful candidates with a disability, health or mental health condition.\nOur large factories produce multi formats across a number of high speed modern lines, to high quality standards whilst maximising production outputs and minimising overhead costs and whilst we have highlighted our ideal requirements for this role, we are realistic that the successful candidate probably won't meet every single requirement in this advert, but we are big advocates of people growing in role. So even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to submit an application - you may be just what we are looking for! 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