Engineering Team Leader

At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations'​ worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 150 years.

Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention. It is part of our philosophy to provide honest good sense on issues of health and well-being, helping the whole family to enjoy our products as part of a healthy, balanced diet, through a range of products to suit all meal occasions, lifestyles and tastes.

Job Title: Engineering Team Leader
Location: Wakefield
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: 4 on 4 off | Days & Nights

If you’re an Engineering Team Leader or Lead Engineer with experience in manufacturing and ready for your next challenge, you could be in the right place. Bakery 41 is our newest bakery in Wakefield and will become our 13th site, helping strengthen our UK‑wide bakery network. Located just ten miles from Tuscany Park and right by the M62 / M1 junction, it gives us added capacity and flexibility to support customers and consumers every day. At around 190,000 sq ft - similar in size to Tuscany Park - Bakery 41 gives us the space we need today, and the headroom to keep moving forward tomorrow.

The Recipe  

As a Engineering Team Leader, you’ll lead the daily activities of the shift engineering teams, covering both breakdown response and planned preventative maintenance across the site. Your focus will be on maximising plant reliability, performance, product quality and safety. 

You’ll work within a business‑led reliability strategy, making effective use of SAP PM to plan and manage maintenance activity. You’ll also ensure all equipment is maintained in line with food safety legislation and compliance standards. 

Alongside this, you’ll support the recruitment, development and engagement of the engineering team, helping individuals deliver against agreed objectives, role profiles and performance review targets. 

The Role  

Ensure plant is safe to operate and maintain and personnel conform to health and safety legislation, policies and standards
Lead an engineering team to support the day to day operation by delivering planned and reactive maintenance to achieve engineering KPIs.
Work within the framework of a Business led engineering reliability strategy
Effective use of SAP PM
Maintain equipment in line with relevant food safety legislation.
Support the recruitment, motivation and development of an engineering team to ensure they achieve the goals and targets agreed in their role profiles and performance review meetings.  

Essential Ingredients
Structured and practical engineering training (e.g. apprenticeship/HNC/degree).
Knowledge and experience of maintenance in an FMCG environment.
HandS/Food Safety systems and legislation knowledge e.g. PUWER, IOSH – able to ensure a safe working environment.
IT and PC knowledge is able to use widespread functions within relevant software (Inc Office and SAP).
Communicating skills is articulate/develops effective, long-term relationships with key people.
Coaching and mentoring skills , akes responsibility for the training and coaching of others.
Influencing and negotiating skills, maintains attention when speaking to groups of people/negotiates successful deals and purchases/develops persuasive arguments/demonstrates flexibility in influencing style.
Analysing and problem solving skills, anticipates problems before they occur and takes steps to deal with them/correctly and swiftly identifies the underlying problem and finds appropriate solutions.
Uses project management techniques to create effective plans with milestones/identifies areas of risk and plan contingency/monitors and communicates work and project progress.
Makes timely decisions/takes account of the wider risks and implications.
Uses an understanding of the cost base in own area to improve profitability/develops and monitors engineering budget.
Leadership skills , inspires others to perform/uses a range of leadership styles/deals effectively with performance issues/creates a sense of trust in the team.  

Extra Dough  

At last and by no means least you will want to know what your breads worth.

A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
Award winning pension scheme with company contributions of 7%
Life assurance
Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
Continued investment in your personal development
Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service  

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do