Head of Engineering

Head Of Engineering - Bury St. Edmunds

up to £65,000 DOE

In a highly competitive world, Direct Table Foods has successfully grown to become one of the largest bacon and gammon processors in the UK with a rich heritage and strong vision. Our strength is in our people – from first QC receipt through to our curing ’craftsmen’ with their wealth of experience of speciality and hand curing processes, the efficiency, quality focus of our production team; to the tenacity of our logistics crew - all supported by our technical and commercial teams with their wealth of market and consumer knowledge.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Leader from a Engineering background to development and deliver the functional strategy through a cascade of the overall business strategy by overseeing the engineering function to ensure that all KPI’s are achieved and that the operation is supported to produce finished products to our customers on time and in full. You will be able to do this by creating a skilled team who are safe, trained and capable to carry out all elements of their roles.

Head of Engineering responsibilities include:

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  Empowerment and leadership of the team that deliver the functional requirements of the business.
• Create and maintain an innovative environment that encourages colleague participation in raising standards of quality, team working and communication
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure that your team are engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their full potential
• Champion safety, health and environmental aspects on site ensuring that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues

Behaviours of our ideal candidate include:

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  Excellent leadership skills: Communicate clear objectives, provides feedback, suggest improvement for individual performance, coaches and confirms competency – gains commitment
• Adapts to changing business needs, introduces new ways of thinking and behaving and applies new ideas
• Innovative, continually looking at trends and opportunities to improve the business
• Responsive and agile in the way you think, make decisions and handle change
• Confidently manages conflict and deal with poor performers
• Builds strong relationships with customers and colleagues
• Can priorities and work within tight deadlines

Knowledge, Skills Experience include:

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  Recognised Engineering qualification, essential HNC/HND, Desirable degree
• Significant Food Manufacturing experience
• Financial awareness and business acumen
• Project management experience
• Effective communication, influencing and networking skills
• Effective planning, organizational prioritization skills
• An understanding/qualification in 5s, Six Sigma or lean thinking

What we can offer you:

A competitive salary up to £65,000

33 days holiday including bank holidays

The opportunity to lead and deliver the sites capital projects and strategic plans to deliver growth and improvements. This is exciting times for our business

This role is Monday to Friday however a degree of flexibility will be needed to meet the business needs

For a full role profile contact Sarah Langford - Group Talent Acquisition Manager Recruitment@Beckettsfoods.co.uk