Engineering Shift Manager Full Time

Job Title: Shift Engineering Manager – Site

Location: Marston’s brewery – Burton on Trent

Job Length: Permanent, Full Time (40 hours per week: 8 hour shifts – 6am – 2pm/2pm – 10pm Mon – Fri)

Attractive pay package combined with a comprehensive benefits program:

• Monthly product allowance – alcoholic & non-alcoholic options available
• Private Medical options
• Life Assurance
• Company bonus scheme
• Access to 24/7 GP services
• Enhanced pension contribution
• Generous holiday (inc bank holidays)
• Access to a range of high street discounts

Carlsberg Britvic is the largest multi-beverage supplier in the UK and is home to some of the most iconic and popular beers & soft drinks, including Carlsberg Danish Pilsner, 1664, Poretti and Brooklyn to ale favourites such as Hobgoblin and Wainwright. For soft drinks, Carlsberg Britvic’s brands include J2O, Robinsons, Tango and London Essence along with the licence rights to the Pepsi portfolio in the UK including Pepsi MAX, 7UP, Lipton Iced Tea and Rockstar Energy.

With a wide national footprint, the Carlsberg Britvic business includes 5 production facilities and 16 logistics depot’s servicing customers up and down the UKAs the Dynamic, Multi-Beverage Powerhouse, we are united by a single, consistent goal: ensuring our people thrive.

About the role:

We are now recruiting for a Shift Engineering Manager – Site

• Responsible for the safe and hygienic deployment of engineering activities across the Burton site but with particular focus on the brewery and packaging departments
• Management of the engineering function including all welfare and facilities concerns.
• Responsible for organising all routine, preventive and corrective maintenance within the site.
• Responsible for the identification and control of all relevant spare parts, replacement parts and consumables
• Responsible for the supervision of all relevant maintenance contractors.
• Responsible for the implementation of all relevant group Maintenance and TPM standards
• Responsible for the training of all operational teams in Autonomous Maintenance and TPM related tasks

Role Responsibilities:

People leadership, development & management

• Ensure personal safety of engineering and operational teams through the implementation and supervision of practices and machine operation and/or repair.
• Promote a safe working environment by ensuring full compliance with Carlsberg Britvic Health & Safety and LOTO policies.
• Recruit, lead, motivate and develop a flexible and agile multi-disciplined engineering team.
• Effective performance management of all direct reports, focusing on behavioural change that will both inspire and motivate individuals to deliver results.
• Effective deployment of a servient leadership approach focusing on coaching as a fundamental pillar.
• Conduct leadership-led process confirmations, taking every chance to coach and involve teams throughout the process.
• Support and deputise for the Site Engineering manager when required.
• Provide emergency support as necessary and in accordance with the emergency response and incident management procedures / teams.
• Ensure the generation of clear job descriptions for the engineering teams and provide input into job descriptions of operators carrying out autonomous maintenance activities.

Budgeting & Control

• Support the preparation and management of the annual engineering budget
• Review engineering spend and spare parts inventory levels on a routine basis.
• Ensure the brewery CMMS system is used accordingly and that the quality and accuracy of inputs and outputs are meeting the agreed standards and target levels.
• Critically review maintenance practices, successes, failures and improvement opportunities with the objective of constantly improving cost and performance metrics.
• Support and where required take the role in managing material and non-material waste analysis and loss reduction, with cross-functional teams.
• Encourage and fully support standardised problem-solving methodologies, including Gemba Kaizen, RCA & Six Sigma, to resolve day-to-day and chronic problems.

Planning & Coordination

• Ensure that maintenance plans are criticality focussed and prioritised accordingly.
• Review the allocation of daily maintenance work orders and plans to the various maintenance teams across the site
• Supervise the maintenance work throughout the site, including that of operational teams and 3rd party contractors
• Ensure effective organisation of packaging & brewery workshops and spare parts stores.
• Ensure engineering staff are assigned effectively to carry out tasks arising from autonomous maintenance activities
• Ensure sufficient resource is allocated to key initiatives (internal or external)
• Ensure engineering repairs are carried out to the agreed standards and within acceptable timelines.
• Coordinate all engineering activity in the packaging and brewing functions during plant shutdowns focusing on safe engineering deployment and effective resource management.

Performance

• Deliver agreed KPI’s in terms of autonomous/preventative maintenance through the effective deployment of both engineering and operational teams.
• Utilise machine reliability measures of MTBF / MTTR for effective maintenance approaches with a defined machine criticality view.
• Focus on the delivery of engineering results using standard methodologies such as RCM and TPM. Promote these methodologies and ensure they become part of standard work practices.
• Set and communicate clear targets for engineering teams.
• Review performance through a structured PMS system
• Ensure appropriate discipline is deployed with regards to meeting attendance and the management of these meetings
• Ensure meeting actions are agreed and adhered to. Action logs are always reviewed according to the schedule
• Ensure compliance to all legislative standards and approved codes of practice.
• To lead and manage minor capital projects.

Experience and Key Attributes:

• Significant experience and understanding of managing maintenance KPI’s and the functional levers relating to people, cost, quality, and service.
• Significant experience and understanding of managing engineering maintenance within a manufacturing environment.
• In depth knowledge of regulatory requirements relating to engineering maintenance
• Committed to LeanTPM and acts as role model in order to achieve organisational objectives through sustainable continuous improvements.
• Advanced proficiency demonstrated in areas including:
• Focusing on Results and aligning self and team
• Customer/Consumer Focus
• Motivation and integrity
• Structured problem-solving
• Cross-team collaboration and high degree of interpersonal communication
• Involving, inspiring, developing and empowering people
• Implementing and supporting change
• Active listening focusing on win-win solutions
• Demonstration of commitment, personal ownership and follow through on agreed decisions
• Taking and executing decisions with quality and speed

Our commitment to diversity equity & inclusion

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences – including those of different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, religions, and socioeconomic statuses. We actively seek to create a safe and inclusive environment for all of our colleagues, where diverse perspectives are welcomed, and inclusive practices are embedded in everything we do.

We’re happy to support accessibility needs, to ensure a fair and equitable experience for all candidates, so please do let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Application Process:

We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled anytime, so please apply as early as possible.We look forward to receiving your application.

This is an exciting time to join our newly formed business – with their incredible individual history’s, innovation of products and some of the UK’s most iconic brands, Carlsberg Britvic strives to deliver the best service to our customers and consumers. We aim to make a difference, bringing together two diverse companies, our global reach enables opportunity, growth and a chance to work with some fantastic people.