Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer Lincolnshire (North) Let’s be honest about what this job is. It’s a food factory. Machines run all day and sometimes they stop when they shouldn’t. When that happens, everyone looks at you. That’s the job. If that sounds like a nightmare, fair enough, there are plenty of other adverts. If it sounds like your idea of a good time, keep reading. What you’ll actually be doing You’ll lead the engineering team at our Scunthorpe site. You’ll keep production lines running, fix things properly rather than patching them up, and work out why they broke so they don’t break again (RCA). What a shift looks like You get the handover from the Production Area Manager, find out what’s actually going on, and pass it on to your technicians and operators. You sit in the shift production meeting and say something useful. You pick out the top issues on the lines, agree a plan with the Area Managers, and make sure the spares are there before you need them. You look at what the plan says about assets coming free for PM and remedial work, and make sure your team is ready to use the window. You run the contractors: permits to work, RAMS that are actually good enough, and every permit closed out before you go home. You get stuck in. You lead from the front, not from the office. You log everything on the CMMS, as you go. Not on Friday from memory. You manage breaks around wh...