Engineering Manager

CS 33948

Engineering Manager - Recycling Sector

Walsall, West Midlands

-55,000

Ready to take ownership of engineering performance and make a real impact?

Are you an experienced Engineering Manager looking for an opportunity where you can shape engineering strategy, develop a talented team and drive meaningful improvements across a major industrial operation?

This is an opportunity to take the lead at a large, established recycling and resource recovery facility, where engineering is a genuine business priority and investment in people, plant reliability and continuous improvement is firmly on the agenda.

You''ll have the autonomy to make decisions, the backing to deliver improvements and the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on engineering performance.

The Opportunity

As Engineering Manager, you''ll take full responsibility for the safe, reliable and cost-effective operation of all site assets.

You''ll lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team, developing a culture of accountability, high performance and continuous improvement. Working closely with the operational leadership team, you''ll ensure engineering plays a central role in maximising plant availability, reducing downtime and delivering operational excellence.

This is a hands-on leadership position where you''ll balance the immediate demands of keeping the plant running with the longer-term priorities of asset reliability, maintenance strategy and engineering development.

What You''ll Be Responsible For

• Leading, motivating and developing a multi-disciplinary engineering team, building a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Driving a proactive maintenance strategy, maintaining preventative maintenance compliance above 95%.
• Improving plant reliability, reducing breakdowns and minimising reactive maintenance.
• Championing health and safety, ensuring the highest standards of engineering compliance and safe working practices.
• Managing external contractors, ensuring work is delivered safely, efficiently and to the required standard.
• Leading root cause analysis investigations and implementing long-term solutions to recurring engineering issues.
• Planning and delivering plant shutdowns to minimise operational disruption and risk.
• Taking ownership of engineering budgets, including OPEX management and contributing to CAPEX investment plans.
• Embedding engineering best practice and driving continuous improvement across the site.

What We''re Looking For

You''ll be an established Engineering or Maintenance Manager with experience leading engineering teams within an industrial, manufacturing, recycling or process-based environment.

More importantly, you''ll be someone who can bring people together, establish clear standards and drive improvements without losing sight of the bigger commercial picture.

You''ll also bring:

• Strong engineering leadership and people management experience.
• A proven track record of driving health and safety standards in an industrial environment.
• A coaching-led approach to developing people and improving team performance.
• An understanding of maintenance budgets, OPEX and CAPEX.
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to influence at all levels.
• A structured, decisive and commercially aware approach to problem-solving.

What''s In It For You?

This is more than simply another Engineering Manager position. It''s an opportunity to join a business that is actively investing in its engineering function and giving its people the opportunity to make a difference.

You''ll benefit from:

• Competitive salary.
• Genuine autonomy and ownership, with the trust to make decisions and deliver change.
• The opportunity to influence and transform engineering and maintenance standards.
• Clear career progression opportunities.
• Financial and structured support towards further qualifications, including Degrees, MBAs and Level 5 / Level 7 programmes.
• IET corporate partnership, with professional membership fees paid and ongoing development supported.
• Generous pension scheme.

Interested?

If you''re an ambitious Engineering Manager who enjoys developing people, improving asset reliability and taking ownership of engineering performance, this could be exactly the opportunity you''ve been looking for.

To apply for this position please send your CV to (url removed) or call (phone number removed) ext 202 for more information.

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