Shift Maintenance Lead Engineer

️ Maintenance Lead – FMCG/Food Manufacturing 📍 Location: Blackpool 💼 Salary: £63k + Benefits + Bonus 🕒 Hours: Continental shifts days and nights Are you a driven Maintenance Lead Engineer with a strong background in food manufacturing or FMCG? Do you have a passion for motivating teams, delivering performance, and driving continuous improvement? If so, this could be the ideal opportunity for you. 🔧 About the Role: We are seeking an experienced Maintenance shift Lead Engineer to lead a multi-skilled engineering team within a high-paced production environment. This role is critical to ensuring uptime, maintaining safety standards, and embedding a culture of CI and lean practices across the department. ✅ Key Responsibilities: * Lead a team of engineers, driving accountability, performance, and engagement. * Promote a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with IOSH and H&S regulations. * Collaborate with production, quality, and CI teams to identify opportunities for improvement. * Report on KPIs and contribute to strategic planning and budget management. 🎯 Ideal Candidate Profile: * Apprentice trained with a minimum of an HNC in Engineering (electrical or mechanical). * Proven experience as a Maintenance Lead Engineer within a food or FMCG manufacturing environment. * Strong working knowledge of automation systems, conveyors, packaging machinery, and production lines. * Demonstrates a proactive and safety-conscious mindset, ideally holding an IOSH qualification. * Strong leadership skills – able to motivate and inspire engineering teams. * Experienced in driving CI/Lean manufacturing initiatives (5S, root cause analysis, Kaizen, etc.). 💡 Why Join Us? * A supportive, progressive culture focused on development and results. * Opportunities to shape and improve site engineering strategy. * Work in a collaborative environment with an emphasis on safety, quality, and innovation. Ready to lead, develop, and make a difference? Apply now to take the next step in your maintenance leadership career