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You’ll lead and develop the onsite engineering team, embed best-practice maintenance standards, and ensure engineering is a trusted partner to Operations.\nReporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you’ll be a key member of the site leadership team and play a pivotal role in overall site performance.\nThis is a role for someone who enjoys ownership, leads with discipline and clarity, and balances short-term uptime with long-term asset health.\nYour core responsibilities.\nLead, coach and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team, fostering accountability and high performance \nCreate, embed and maintain a strong safety culture, ensuring full compliance with all engineering and H&S standards \nDrive asset reliability through effective preventative maintenance, maintaining PM compliance consistently above 95% \nReduce breakdowns and reactive maintenance, improving overall plant availability and site performance \nManage contractors effectively, ensuring safe systems of work and quality delivery \nCarry out Root Cause Analysis and implement sustainable, long-term engineering solutions \nPlan, execute and continuously improve shutdown activities to minimise downtime and risk \nTake ownership of engineering OPEX, contribute to CAPEX planning, embed engineering standards, and ensure best practice is consistently applied\nRequirements\nOur essential requirements.\nProven engineering or maintenance management experience\nStrong H&S leadership in an industrial environment\nCoaching and developmental leadership style\nCommercially aware with understanding of OPEX and CAPEX\nConfident communicator at all levels\nStructured, calm and decisive\nBenefits\nAnd here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.\nCompetitive salary.\nBe part of a business actively transforming engineering and maintenance standards, where engineering is genuinely valued and invested in \nEnjoy real autonomy and trust in a fast-paced environment, with no micromanagement and clear visibility of the impact you make \nBenefit from clear progression opportunities, with structured support for further qualifications including Degrees, MBA, and Level 5 / Level 7 programmes \nIET corporate partnership in place, with professional membership paid and ongoing development fully supported\nGenerous pension scheme.\nChanging the way people think about waste.\nAt Biffa, we love working with waste. 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