Engineering Lead

Head of Engineering
Negotiable
Days - Full Time

Yolk Recruitment is proud to be supporting a leading manufacturing organisation in their search for a Head of Engineering to join their site leadership team.

As a key part of the operations structure, this role offers the opportunity to take full ownership of the site's engineering and facilities function - leading a skilled team, ensuring asset reliability, and driving compliance and performance across the board. With recent investment and a strong focus on continuous improvement, this is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious engineering leader to make their mark.

Position Overview:

As the Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for end-to-end asset and facilities management, ensuring operational reliability, safety compliance, cost control, and site efficiency. You'll lead, motivate, and develop a multi-skilled engineering team while managing contractors and projects to deliver real improvements to site performance.

This is what you'll be doing:

• Provide strategic leadership, ensuring your team is fully skilled, engaged, and aligned across shifts.
• Manage and develop apprentices, creating succession plans and supporting training needs.
• Deliver optimised planned, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies.
• Maintain PPM compliance for all assets and drive root cause analysis on breakdowns.
• Take responsibility for OPEX & CAPEX budgets, controlling spend and identifying savings.
• Oversee facilities services, including utilities, statutory inspections, site services, and contracts.
• Ensure 100% compliance with safety, environmental, and engineering regulations.
• Foster a proactive culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

The experience you'll bring to the team:

• Proven track record leading and developing multi-skilled engineering teams.
• Strong background in asset maintenance, predictive maintenance, and reliability programmes.
• Experience in managing contractors, SLAs, and service agreements.
• Skilled in OPEX & CAPEX management, with a focus on cost control and efficiency.
• Broad technical knowledge across electrical distribution, HVAC, compressed air, chilled water, and pressure systems.
• Familiarity with LOLER, PUWER, PSSR, and ideally HACCP / hygiene controls.
• A people-focused leader who lives and breathes Health & Safety, compliance, and quality.

And this is what you'll get in return:

• A competitive salary
• Opportunity to shape the strategy and performance of the site's engineering function
• The chance to lead a skilled team in a forward-thinking, investment-backed business
• A role with real scope for impact and progression

Are you up to the challenge?

Are you what we're looking for? Please get in touch today with engineering specialist recruiter, Andy Jones.

Please apply with a CV - and feel free to include a cover letter outlining why you're the perfect fit. We also run a referral scheme, so if you know somebody who would be ideal, get in touch.

Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high volume of applications we cannot guarantee a response to every applicant. If you have not heard from us within 7 days, unfortunately you've been unsuccessful this time. Please keep an eye on our website for future opportunities.