Engineering Manager

Corby, Northamptonshire | Competitive salary | Full-time | Permanent | Senior leadership role within a heavy industry manufacturing environment.

Introduction

Acorn by Synergie is recruiting for an Engineering Manager to join the senior management team within a large manufacturing environment. Reporting to the Works Manager, this role is responsible for delivering safety, performance, financial, and development metrics while defining and delivering site strategy.

Key Duties:

• Provide engineering leadership to support manufacturing operations and ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements.

• Lead asset reliability strategies, including criticality assessments and FMEA.

• Drive maintenance and reliability excellence, improving process understanding and problem-solving capability.

• Plan and schedule maintenance shutdowns, including major refurbishment activities.

• Manage the annual maintenance and repair budget.

• Contribute to strategic planning, engineering standards, and best practices.

• Lead and develop a team of skilled engineers within a safety-critical environment.

• Ensure manufacturing assets and infrastructure are maintained to high standards.

• Drive improvements in plant performance, reliability, and availability.

Requirements:

• Degree-qualified engineer (Mechanical or Electrical preferred).

• Chartered status or working towards it (preferred).

• Experience delivering maintenance excellence programmes in medium to heavy industry.

• Proven experience leading large, multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of manufacturing KPIs such as OEE and loss analysis.

• Ability to use data-driven maintenance strategies to improve performance.

• Experience working within safety-critical environments.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Opportunity to join a well-established industrial organisation.

• Long-term career development opportunities.

Interested?

Apply now with your up-to-date CV.

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