Site Engineering Manager

Lead engineering strategy across a major upper-tier COMAH manufacturing site

Wolviston Management Services is proud to be working in partnership with TIOXIDE to recruit a Site Engineering Manager for their Greatham site.

This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for the site engineering function, engineering standards, asset integrity, reliability strategy, maintenance capital expenditure and engineering resource performance across a complex upper-tier COMAH manufacturing environment.

As part of the Greatham Senior Leadership Team, you will play a key role in shaping site manufacturing strategy, improvement plans and capital expenditure priorities, ensuring engineering assets are designed, installed, commissioned, maintained and inspected in line with UK legislation, the Greatham Site COMAH report, company standards and recognised engineering best practice.

What you’ll be doing
You will:

Lead and provide a professional engineering service to support the improvement, maintenance and operation of Greatham assets.
Design and deliver the site reliability strategy and asset life plans.
Define, lead and deliver the site maintenance CAPEX programme to time, quality and cost expectations.
Provide functional leadership for the engineering community, ensuring regulatory standards, corporate policy and local engineering procedures are followed.
Ensure Greatham assets are maintained, inspected, repaired and operated in line with UK legislation, COMAH requirements, company standards and recognised best practice.
Lead the site strategy for engineering excellence, asset integrity and asset life planning.
Select, lead, develop and performance manage the Site Engineering Team.
Oversee site-wide demand and resource allocation to support efficient delivery of projects, tasks and activities.
Contribute to site manufacturing strategy, improvement plans and capital expenditure plans as part of the Senior Leadership Team.
Oversee equipment overhauls and engineering stores to ensure they are efficient, cost-effective and meet operational needs.
Lead, inspire and sustain a positive values-led culture focused on safety, performance, compliance and engineering best practice.
Act as Senior Duty Manager and Site Main Controller as part of the site rota. The role includes responsibility for a revenue budget of around £5m, a maintenance capital expenditure budget of around £5m–£8m, engineering stores of around £9m, and fixed assets with a net book value of around £120m.

We welcome applications from people who have

A degree, or equivalent knowledge, in a relevant engineering discipline.
Chartered Engineer status, or equivalent professional engineering judgement.
Senior engineering leadership experience within chemical, process, manufacturing or another high-hazard environment.
Experience working in upper-tier COMAH environments would be beneficial.
Strong knowledge of asset integrity engineering, reliability strategy, maintenance delivery and engineering standards.
Experience leading engineering teams, developing people and managing performance.
The ability to plan, prioritise, schedule and optimise people, budgets and resources.
Experience contributing to manufacturing strategy, improvement planning or capital expenditure planning.
Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage internal and external stakeholders.
A commitment to high standards, safe working, inclusion, compliance and continuous improvement. We know people gain skills in different ways. You do not need to meet every point above to apply. If this role interests you and you believe you could make a positive contribution, we would welcome your application.

Why join TIOXIDE?
Join TIOXIDE in a visible senior leadership role where your engineering leadership will directly influence safety, reliability, asset integrity, production capability and long-term site performance. You will lead a diverse engineering function at a major Teesside manufacturing site and help shape the future of engineering excellence across Greatham.

Diversity and inclusion
TIOXIDE is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued and able to contribute. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences, including people from groups currently under-represented in senior engineering, manufacturing and technical leadership roles.

TIOXIDE and Wolviston Management Services are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process