Engineering Section Manager

Role overview

Role accountabilities

• Prepare and manage food and drink maintenance work, including planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance.
• Resolve electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatic faults; lead machinery changeovers and setups.
• Drive continuous improvement, participate in failure investigations, and conduct technical performance reviews.
• Maintain engineering documentation, develop team competence, ensure tools and equipment availability, and contribute to audits.
• Manage day-to-day HR activities for direct reports.

What the role requires

• Level 2 Maths and English or equivalent, plus a recognised engineering apprenticeship such as C&G/EAL NVQ Level 3/4 or OAL FDEM Diploma.
• Food Safety Level 2, IOSH Managing Safely, and good working knowledge of the latest IET Wiring Regulations.
• Multi-skilled engineering experience with an electrical bias, hands-on mechanical and electrical experience, and strong fault-finding capability.
• Maintenance planning, budget management, spare parts control, CMMS use, leadership, teamwork, and contractor management.
• Knowledge of safety, health, and environmental legislation, risk assessment, and risk management.
• FMCG or food manufacturing experience, hygienic engineering, continuous improvement, reliability techniques, and instrumentation configuration are desirable.
• OEE and Lean familiarity is desirable.

Workplace and schedule

• Site-based role in Bo'ness.
• Hours are 8:00–16:30, working either Tuesday–Saturday or Sunday–Thursday.

Compensation and benefits

• Competitive salary; no salary cadence or amount is specified.
• Benefits include a share-save scheme, matched pension contribution, life insurance up to four times salary, holidays, employee discounts, wellbeing support, and enhanced parental leave and menopause policies.

Employment and development