Engineering Manager Fridaythorpe

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Fridaythorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK

Contract / Shift: Permanent – Full time – Monday – Friday

About the Role:

We need an Engineering Manager to oversee the engineering team at our site. This role is important in maintaining site reliability, safety, and encouraging an improvement culture.

You will oversee all site assets, ensuring safe and efficient operations with a key focus on plant availability and safety.

To perform well in this role, a practical, varied approach is necessary, focusing on both electrical and mechanical skills, along with good team-building abilities.

Why this role?

This role allows you to contribute positively, with responsibility for the mill’s engineering operations. You will contribute to the team’s development through succession planning and skill training. The lean operating environment offers chances for creative problem-solving and innovative thinking, allowing you to directly shape site outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement continuous improvement (CI) initiatives, ensuring zero failure repeat practices.
• Maintain all site assets safely and ensure optimal plant availability.
• Oversee preventive and planned maintenance tasks in line with the company’s management system.
• Manage a small engineering team and support their professional growth through training and apprenticeships.
• Manage site capital expenditure projects in engineering, from concept to delivery.
• Implement asset care strategies using tools like Agility CMMS to enhance performance.
• Collaborate closely with production teams, acting as a key internal service provider.
• Lead the engineering aspects of site capital expenditure projects, from concept to delivery.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Effective team management skills to manage, develop, and inspire a small team.
• Experience with delivering continuous improvement projects.
• Ability to balance engaged technical work with strategic leadership responsibilities.
• Established background, with a 60/40 electrical and mechanical background.
• Experience with engineering management systems (e.g., Agility CMMS).
• Aim to develop a safety-first culture and ensure adherence to QESH standards.

Desirable Qualifications:

• NEBOSH qualification or similar HSE certification.
• Experience within feed milling or a related manufacturing sector.
• Capital project management experience.

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

About us

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.  What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you.  People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.