Head of Engineering

Job Objective

As Head of Engineering, you are fully in charge of all engineering operations. Senior Leaders in the business look to you to ensure that the engineering function runs smoothly on time, within budget, adhering to quality standards, in full regulatory compliance. You will drive safety, quality, delivery, productivity, compliance and regulatory requirements and cost improvements that will add value to the site. Effective Project management is an essential part of this role. The company looks to you to be a trusted, decisive, high performing, customer-focused, quality managing, cost-conscious and employee-empowering leader. You will balance taking control on occasions that need such an approach, but often you will lead through your team to give them the confidence to make decisions within parameters that are relevant to their role, their skill set, their experience and their potential while always remaining fully accountable for your function. As Head of Engineering, you will carefully balance the need to motivate your team with the need to implement senior management decisions and initiatives, not all of which will be popular. You will stay abreast of leading and cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices. You will work closely and collaboratively with the Production and Quality functions and other support functions across the business to ensure the production element of the supply chain is always optimised You will also be responsible and fully accountable for all day to day, week to week engineering KPI, targets and plans.

Duties and Responsibilities

Performance

• Drive Lean /Continuous Improvement /Optimisation initiatives - using lean tools including A3 problem solving.
• Setting and ensuring timely completion of engineering schedules.
• Developing and leading out the Engineering strategy along with the Production and site leadership team.
• Achieve agreed engineering measures, minimising downtime and targets.
• Ensure facilities are always fit for purpose.
• Forward planning with Production to ensure the timely completion of preventative maintenance schedules.
• Ensure spare parts are ordered and available when needed.
• Achieving engineering operational excellence objectives.
• Input and contribute constructively, all known views, to the Group Technical Director, from a safety and wellbeing compliance perspective and all process, product and people flow on all capital investment related items and engage collaboratively cross functionally, on a smooth handover, of new processes into production.
• Ensure committed savings are achieved in a timely manner and any obstacles in doing so escalated.
• Support the Head of Technical on Group initiatives and ensure there are best practice methodologies in place and alignment between all countries.

Quality

• With the Quality team, jointly lead the delivery of a real GMP culture in production.
• Ensure timely follow up on associated audits.
• Ensure the quality of our assets are maintained above-required levels.
• Ensure that agreed internal and external customer satisfaction targets are met.

Cost

• Acceptance and handover of all capital investment projects, and delivery of all savings associated with materials, labor, yield and productivity.
• Maximise company EBIT within your direct control
• Set and ensure that cost savings are achieved
• Optimise labour within the team
• Jointly, with Group build and deliver on (if approved) Capex projects

Compliance

• Ensure Business systems are utilised such as HRIS, ITS and others.
• Surpass minimum quality standards and measures
• Run Dept to achieve environmental targets
• Run Dept to achieve health and safety targets
• Comply with relevant HR policies and procedures
• Comply with company reporting needs
• Proactively identify and correct risks

People & Culture

• Lead your team and behave in a manner that supports and demonstrates Company values
• Openness: open-minded and enquiring, hungry for 'better.'
• Challenge: continuously challenging the 'status quo' in a drive for continuous improvement Sense of Urgency: proactively seeking and delivering on the change needed – being a visible 'catalyst' of change
• Lead and Set the standards of what is & what is not acceptable in Manor Farm – across all aspects of the business in the processing facility.
• A proactive communicator (2-way) across all functions & levels within the business
• Engage proactively with Scandi Standard peers to share and get best practice on processing related matters.
• Work collaboratively and support other function heads in processing to achieve overall company goals & objectives.
• Provide timely, informal and formal feedback to all staff.
• Resolve conflicts informally where possible before escalating
• Manage staff absences in line with company policies.
• Ensure that accidents are managed in line with company policies.
• Create and manage developmental plans for direct reports.

REQUIREMENTS

Experience

• 5 – 6 years middle to senior level experience of which at least three will have been at senior management level
• • 5+ years' experience in the Live Food Operations sector

Educational Qualifications

• Degree or higher in relevant 3rd level, engineering

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Competencies

• Create a climate in which people want to do their best as part of a cohesive, cooperative group effort.
• Promote a confident and positive can-do attitude through honesty and professionalism in all interactions.
• Build and maintain relationships with others at all levels to develop mutually beneficial outcomes while using diplomacy, tact, and interpersonal skills to support others in reaching consensus.
• Effectively convey information and expresses thoughts and facts in a manner that will constructively persuade, convince, and influence others.
• Demonstrate effective use of listening and questioning skills while displaying openness to other people's ideas and thoughts.
• Effectively, fairly, and transparently manages all people, financial, and business resources in line with company values, goals, policies, and procedures.
• Demonstrate the ability to make informed, effective, and timely decisions in a manner that is both collaborative & empowering to staff and inclusive of internal and external customer needs.
• Possess the ability and desire to improve performance using creative, innovative, and quality-driven approaches.
• Develop and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Communicate ideas and information in an engaging manner while working cooperatively with others building relationships within and outside of the organisation.

Key Skills

• Ability to operate effectively in an agile and fast-moving environment
• Proven expertise and track record in managing the engineering function in previous environments the size and scale of Manor Farm.
• Can effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong skills as a negotiator to reach consensus, alignment, and commitment with people.
• Sound organisation and time management skills.

Key Performance Indicator

• All compliances associated with Quality, GMP, H&S, Employee wellbeing, Food Safety and Environmental are adhered.
• Achieve weekly budget as agreed.
• Engineering targets are achieved or exceeded – downtime, uptime, energy, water conservation.
• CMMS to a minimum and in control at all times.
• Planning effectiveness & schedule compliance.
• Labour target is met or exceeded.
• Develop, lead and motivate all team members through an effective appraisal/performance management. process.

Manor Farm are an equal opportunity employer

Location: Shercock Co Cavan

Application deadline: 18 Oct 2024