New Job Opening: Group Engineering Manager in Spitalfields House, Phoenix Roadd, Haverhill, Suffolk,

Job Title:

Group Engineering Manager

Reporting To:

Head of Operations

Direct Reports:

Engineering Coordinator, Maintenance Engineer’s

Purpose of the role

To lead and manage the Engineering Department and develop continuous improvements.

Role & Responsibilities

1. Responsible for maintaining facilities both internal and external to the 3 sites, 2 in Haverhill, and 1 in Perivale in London.


2. To generate engineering performance related KPI’s, such as lost time due to breakdowns or engineering work per week, PPM % open/completed etc.


3. To Draw up budgets for each year then manage and control the engineering them for all 3 sites, and report on this weekly to Head of Ops.


4. Work as part of the site management team made up of Engineering, technical, production & planning, and H&S/Training, all answering in to the Head of Operations to ensure the smooth running of the business through close cooperation, and clear communication.


5. To ensure all PPM’s are carried out as per the maintenance schedule.


6. To ensure that all maintenance sheets and appropriate paperwork is completed and that actions are taken to make sure that any further work is identified and completed are necessary


7. To provide support in the event of production breakdowns and ensure all jobs are prioritised and carried out in a timely fashion, adhering to health and safety at all times.


8. Ensure that all machine downtime can be planned into the maintenance system and production schedules.


9. Ensure production staff have a full understanding of the Shire System so that all engineering work requests are completed correctly, and that all forms requiring a production and technical hand over are signed before plant is handed back to production.


10. Work with training officer to assist where required to train production team on correct use of plant machinery, both for safety of operatives, and in order to prolong life span of equipment.


11. Responsible for ordering, and maintaining optimal levels of stocks of spares to minimise downturns and minimise stockholdings and for the custody and control over these stocks.


12. Provide leadership to engender a team culture that seeks to improve the flexibility and regularity of maintenance routines to reduce down time.


13. Provide leadership in looking for continued improvements to processes and facilities to reduce costs, down time and product wastage at site.


14. Expected to either run, or support the Head of Ops, in Capex projects for the business. Ensuring best decision, from multiple quotes.


15. Ensure and managing any external contractors, to ensure they meet and adhere to site health and safety requirements at all times whilst on any of our facilities.


16. Provide training and appropriate development for engineering staff.


17. To provide mentorship to engineering team members.


18. To carry out Performance development Meetings with team members twice yearly.


19. To interact with, and to represent engineering within the company management team.


20. To participate in factory HSE committee.


21. It’s the responsibility of all Petrow employees to ensure that the integrity of all of the brands that we manufacture for is maintained at all times. By ensuring that our internal operations align with our values, qualities and promises we make to the brands we work with, we can continue to build brand trust which in turn can be mutually beneficial for Petrow and the businesses we work with. Petrow expect all its employees to remain consistent, focused, honest and transparent throughout all of our operations in order to ensure there is integrity in all that we do.

Other Responsibilities

1. Point of contact for other departments


2. Oversee and encourage engineers to manage small projects to gain continuous improvements at site liaising with factory manager and production team to ensure best results.


3. Assist production with production processes and EPD development to help improve product quality and consistent results.

Key Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Knowledge of both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.


• Knowledge of HACCP, Health and Safety and all Industry & GMP.


• Leadership skills and experience and employee management.


• Excellent communication skills, problem solving, analytical, IT and numerical abilities are essential.


• Self-motivation, initiative and ability to work as part of a team.

Desirable:

• Driving Licence.

Operating environment and nature of the role

This is a very busy and diverse role, responsible for the provision of key support services to the Group. There are significant times of the year which are especially busy and where competing demands will be placed on the job holder e.g. installation of new equipment, this means the job holder is be expected to be highly flexible.

The above list of roles & responsibilities is not intended to be exclusive or exhaustive and the employee will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected, this may include tasks outside of your immediate function or department.

Issue Date: 16h October 2026