Senior Engineering Leader

British Sugar is a home-grown success story and one of the most efficient and competitive beet processers in the world. Around 3,500 farmers based in East Anglia and the East Midlands supply our four advanced manufacturing sites with eight million tonnes of sugar beet every year. We, in turn, make this in to over 1 million tonnes of sugar, serving customers across the UK, Ireland and increasingly growing commercially in the EU and world sugar markets.

Who are we

British Sugar is the UKs largest sugar producer.  Our people, their safety and our environment are at the heart of everything we do.

We process the entire UK sugar beet crop (around 8 million tonnes) to produce around 1.2 million tonnes of sugar across our sites annually.  Bury Customer Supply is one of 5 British Sugar sites in the UK and is located in Bury St Edmunds, it is the centre of excellence for Icing Sugars and Retail Packaging within British Sugar. Supplying (phone number removed)kg packets to consumer and 53,000 tonnes of icing sugar products each year.

The factory underwent its 40th anniversary in 2022 and has seen significant investment in recent years. It is an exciting time to join the site as commissioning is about to start in the next phase of a multi-million-pound investment program of new high speed packaging and palletising machines.

The British Sugar beet industry supports around 7000 jobs, and we are passionate about working with all of our growers and industry partners to support a thriving sugar business.

Opportunity

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Mechanical Engineer to join our Engineering Support team. You will report to the Engineering Support Manager and act as the site mechanical engineer to ensure equipment integrity and fitness for purpose. As a subject matter expert, you will lead local enhancement of safety, reliability and production throughput relating to all on site mechanical equipment.

You will have a detailed understanding of industrial mechanical plant and a track record of leading and delivering maintenance improvement programs. Practical experience of an FMCG or large scale manufacturing process and the relative criticality of plant, including an understanding of RCA, FMEA & Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) principles is essential.

Skills and experiences

Chartered Mechanical Engineer or Mechanical apprentice trained with extensive equivalent experience.

Working knowledge of the British Standards for Engineering Plant, Equipment and Practices

Extensive engineering experience within FMCG or bulk product handling environments.

Key Accountabilities

Ensure the technical integrity of mechanical plant to ensure that product, process and systems meet specified requirements.

Develop technical specifications to support the repair of non-routine mechanical breakdowns on site.

Act as the site subject matter expert for all mechanical maintenance tasks to enhance safety, reliability and production throughput in line with site objectives.

Take responsibility for coordination and management of Statutory and Mandatory compliance topics.

Interpret business-wide standards and policy and ensure that they are understood and applied appropriately at site level and deliver legal compliance.

Define technical specifications and acceptance testing standards for all mechanical maintenance tasks to ensure standardisation on site.

Support the learning and development of the site APU teams through the provision of coaching and mentoring to ensure that they are fully equipped to deliver their objectives.

Lead site based mechanical reliability centred maintenance initiatives to facilitate maximum equipment and plant uptime, and contribute to a cost per tonne reduction.

Lead site based mechanical defect elimination initiatives to minimise production downtime.

Lead a cross business expert group to facilitate standardisation of approach and the sharing of good practice.

Demonstrate the highest personal health and safety standards at all times and work effectively with other team members to carry out the tasks safely and effectively.

Lead by example by role-modelling the British Sugar Values and behaviours.

Deliver and Support Capital projects

Skills & Abilities :

A proven ability to manage complex and conflicting requirements in a multi-site environment

Ability to effectively lead a cross business technical team to deliver increased mechanical reliability and cost efficiency

Effective influencing and negotiating skills

Effective communication skills to influence at all levels across a site.

Passion to succeed with a desire to broaden knowledge and experience

Ability to effectively communicate complex technical information to non-technical colleagues

Coaching and mentoring skills along with a focus on continuous improvement

Ability to use Microsoft Office applications and CMMS

Personal Qualities & Behaviours :

Energising situations to ensure effective outcomes

Commitment to upholding the British Sugar Values

Demonstrates highest personal health and safety standards at all times

Works effectively with other team members to carry out the tasks required of them safely and effectively

What we can offer you

Salary of £65,000-£70,000

Contributory pension plan up to 10%

34 days annual leave (inc bank holidays), plus the option to buy an additional week annual leave

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Payment of an annual professional membership

Employee Referral Scheme

A range of staff discounts

Ongoing commitment to your professional development.

Diversity and Inclusions

We are committed to creating an environment where all our people are treated with respect and given the opportunities to succeed. We want British Sugar to be a great, inclusive place to work for everyone.

Sustainability

For British Sugar, sustainability is economic, social and environmental. These three pillars set out the areas where our knowledge and resources are enabling us to make a positive change.

They represent the issues that matter most to us, to our stakeholders and to the communities where we operate. Together, these three pillars give structure, direction and unity to all our sustainability efforts.

We are focusing on playing our part in decarbonisation by committing to the achievement of group science-based targets that have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), inline with ABF Sugar's  framework.

About British Sugar

Our innovative approach to manufacturing also enables us to create a range of co-products from power generation and bioethanol, to animal feed and much more.

We are part of the ABF Group, a global business with over 133,000 colleagues across 55 countries.

If you would like to know more about who we are and what we do, please visit our website at (url removed)