Job Description:

Engineering Shift Manager | Permanent Nights | Panama Shift

Bradford | Food Manufacturing | 2-2-3 Panama Shift | 18:00-06:00

Competitive salary + excellent benefits

Are you an experienced Engineering Manager, Engineering Team Leader or Senior Engineer ready to take ownership of an engineering function on a permanent night shift?

This is an opportunity to join a large-scale, highly automated food manufacturing site in Bradford, where you'll lead an engineering team, drive reliability and help shape the way engineering operates across the night shift.

This isn't simply a senior engineer role with a different job title.

You'll have genuine responsibility for people, performance, maintenance standards and continuous improvement, working closely with production to keep the site running safely and efficiently.

The Shift

Panama shift pattern: 2-2-3

18:00-06:00

You'll work a structured permanent night shift, giving you a consistent pattern and clear ownership of the engineering operation during your shift.

What You'll Own

As Engineering Shift Manager, you'll lead the engineering team on shift and make sure the site has the right level of support to maintain production performance.

You'll be responsible for:

• Leading, coaching and developing the engineering team

• Setting clear expectations around engineering standards and performance

• Supporting engineers with complex electrical and mechanical faults

• Driving planned and preventative maintenance performance

• Reducing repeat breakdowns and equipment downtime

• Improving reliability across a highly automated production environment

• Managing engineering priorities throughout the shift

• Working closely with production and other site functions

• Supporting engineering projects, equipment upgrades and capital investment

• Promoting a strong culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement

• Ensuring engineering activity is carried out safely and to the required food manufacturing standards

You'll be expected to be visible, practical and involved.

This isn't a desk-based management position. You'll be leading from the front, supporting your engineers when problems arise and making sure the team leaves the shift in a stronger position than when it started.

The Environment

You'll be working within a large-scale food manufacturing operation with significant automation, where engineering reliability has a direct impact on production performance.

The site has the scale and resources to allow you to make meaningful improvements.

You'll have the opportunity to move the engineering function away from simply reacting to breakdowns and towards a more proactive, planned and reliability-focused approach.

What We're Looking For

We're open to candidates from a range of engineering leadership backgrounds.

You could currently be an:

• Engineering Manager

• Engineering Shift Manager

• Engineering Team Leader

• Maintenance Manager

• Senior Maintenance Engineer ready to step into leadership

You'll ideally have:

• Previous engineering leadership experience within FMCG, food manufacturing, manufacturing or a similarly automated environment

• Strong electrical and mechanical engineering knowledge

• Experience leading, managing or developing engineering teams

• A recognised engineering qualification such as NVQ Level 3, ONC, BTEC Level 3 or equivalent

• Strong fault-finding and problem-solving ability

• Experience working in a fast-paced production environment

• The confidence to make decisions and prioritise effectively under pressure

• A practical approach to engineering leadership

• Knowledge of HACCP and food manufacturing standards would be advantageous

Most importantly, you'll be someone who can get the best out of engineers while maintaining high engineering standards yourself.

What's In It For You?

• Competitive salary

• Permanent 2-2-3 Panama night shift

• 18:00-06:00

• 6 weeks' holiday including bank holidays

• Excellent pension and life assurance

• Healthcare and digital GP support

• Career progression and development opportunities

• Staff discounts from day one

• Additional family and friend discount scheme

• Subsidised onsite canteen

• Free onsite parking

• Retail, leisure and gym discounts

• Long-service recognition awards

• Enhanced family leave benefits

Why Make the Move?

This is a chance to take ownership of an engineering team within a large, established manufacturing operation and make a visible difference to reliability, performance and culture.

You'll have the scale, resources and backing to implement improvements rather than spending every night chasing the same breakdowns.

If you're an experienced engineering leader who enjoys developing people, improving reliability and getting stuck into the engineering, this role gives you the opportunity to make that impact on a much larger operation.

Engineering Shift Manager | Bradford | Permanent Nights | 2-2-3 Panama | 18:00-06:00

Apply directly or contact Jake at (url removed)