Westmill  | part of Associated British Foods plc

Site Engineering Manager

Location
Westmill, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
1/10/2025
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Description
We are proud of our heritage and position as one of Europe’s largest specialist food companies, manufacturing and supplying authentic global foods which serve the chefs and owners of restaurants and takeaways, as well as a diverse range of consumers. With a strong portfolio of leading brands including Lucky Boat, Elephant Atta, Rajah, Green Dragon and Patak’s, our product range is as diverse as the people who chose to work here, and includes noodles, flour, rice, spices, sauces, and oils. We pride ourselves on our passion for food and people, where collaboration, diversity, and inclusion are integral in everything that we do. This is underpinned with our employee resource groups where members and allies help create an inclusive environment and special events are celebrated. Westmill is a place where no one feels like the new person for long and everyone has the chance to make a real difference to the business by being their authentic selves.

Overview Of Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Westmill as we build for the future. Westmill has a clear strategy and continues to invest in capital, systems, process, product and people capability to ensure we are well positioned for growth. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the site team as Site Engineering Manager, reporting to the Site General Manager. The Trafford facility is Westmill’s flagship site which is continually developing and improving our people, process and products.

Key Accountabilities

  • To develop and implement a planned preventative maintenance strategy for the site
  • Guardian of Engineering standards for the whole site
  • Responsible for coaching, developing and leading all direct reports and for the successful application of lean manufacturing within the site maintenance team both structurally and culturally
  • Responsible for advising manufacturing and SGM on engineering maintenance budgets including periodic reviews
  • Ensure that all engineering KPIs are defined, understood, aligned to manufacturing plans and actions in place to achieve continuous improvement.
  • Ensure that the correct resource and strategy is in place to deliver the site overhead and prime budgets.
  • Improve site services and infrastructure standards whilst maintaining budget control.
  • Ensure company H&S standards and statutory regulations e.g. legal & mandatory, food safety etc. are complied with, within own area of control. Advisory to manufacturing for other areas
  • Lead by example to ensure a behavioural safety culture is developed and maintained.

The Right Person

A strong Leader of Operational Engineering, capable of motivating and leading maintenance teams to perform to the best of their ability. Driving the site engineering function to service the Manufacturing Operation to ensure that OEE targets are met and improved to deliver the most cost effective quality product to its wide customer base.

Ability to deiver and implement a robust engineering strategy working with OEMs, alongside our operations and capital teams, linked to reliability, performance improvement, asset care, risk management and essential replacement. Development and adoption of Pro-active Maintenance Best Practice Systems.

A strong leader of Operational Engineering, capable of motivating and leading maintenance teams to perform to the best of their ability. Driving the site engineering function to service the Manufacturing Operation to ensure that OEE targets are met and improved to deliver the most cost-effective quality product to its wide customer base. The ability to deliver excellent engineering standards, embedding the recent engineering structure changes and providing clear leadership to support the site team through the future changes. You will need to engage closely with the project team and other functions to make progress at pace to move the factory performance to world class.

  • A competitive salary
  • ABF Pension Scheme membership
  • An annual Incentive Plan
  • Private Healthcare
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