Shift Engineering Manager

Job description

Shift Engineering Manager - Bicester, Oxfordshire.
What they can offer you?
* Excellent salary (negotiable)
* Excellent benefits.
* A career within automation one of the number one growth industries in the world.
* Career progression opportunities.
* Exposure to cutting edge technology.
Industry experience required in one of the following sectors:
| Automation | FMCG | Manufacturing | MHE | Robotics | Airports | Electrical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Control Engineering |
Duties:
* Day to day supervision of shift engineers and technicians and maintenance shift members including prioritisation and allocation of workload
* Working closely with inbound, outbound, and other support teams on a daily basis to ensure direction of labour, and planned engineering activities fully support operation.
* Be proactive in the development of team members, Advise, lead and motivate team members, assess capability and identify and resolve training and skill requirements, be involved in disciplinary issues.
* Assessment of engineering team skills and assisting in up skilling and training of staff, including integration of first line maintenance of plant and equipment.
* Management and development of department processes; including shift handovers, briefs, and defect reporting/resolving
* Reporting and monitoring of data capture for automation and maintenance activities
* Ability to lead from the front, driving pace accuracy and standards. As part of this be competent and experienced as an Engineer in own right, either mechanically or electrically, although must be familiar and competent with both streams of engineering to enable decision-making.
* Work to and follow all CDM guidance, both external (CDM Regulations 2015 and associated Guidance L153) and internal procedures and processes, HS&E policy and associated Arrangement Policies). To seek guidance from the HS&E team where there is uncertainty.
What They are looking for:
Good technical ability relating to automation hardware and software, this may include, but is not limited to:
HNC Engineering, equivalent relevant Degree coupled with relevant applied learning, Engineering Technician Apprenticeship, Electrical and/or mechanical skills preferably gained in an FMCG background to at least NVQ 3
Experience at a management or supervisory level within an automated environment
Good organisational ability and the ability to plan and prioritise.
Sound analytical skills with an eye for detail; good problem solving ability and a practical approach.
Comprehensive understanding of production, picking and storage MHE systems, gained from experience in an automated environment.
Experience of a FMCG environment.
Experience of working with Computerised maintenance management systems
Numerate and PC literate including Word, Excel etc.
Application Process
If you have the above skills and wish to be considered for this position or find out more details then please submit your CV.
We will endeavour to contact all applicants however if you do not hear from me within two weeks then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful