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Senior Engineering Supervisor

Salary Competitive
Location Spalding
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Senior Engineering Supervisor

📍 Location: Spalding

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Supervisor to lead on-shift engineering operations, driving equipment reliability, performance, and continuous improvement across our site.

You’ll play a key role in supervising a multi-skilled team, ensuring fast response to breakdowns, strong preventative maintenance, and full compliance with safety and food standards.


🚀 What you’ll be doing

  • Supervise and support a team of engineers across Abattoir, Butchery & Site Services
  • Drive a culture of proactive maintenance and continuous improvement
  • Ensure quick and effective response to breakdowns, minimising downtime
  • Monitor and deliver KPIs including downtime, PPM, and work order completion
  • Oversee daily engineering service sheets and shift performance
  • Ensure compliance with Health & Safety, Food Safety and Hygiene standards
  • Manage contractor control, permits and on-site activity
  • Support audits and deliver associated action plans
  • Lead shift briefs and ensure strong communication across teams
  • Act as a key point of contact on shift and deputise for the Engineering Manager

✅ What we’re looking for

Essential:

  • Apprentice trained with a recognised Mechanical or Electrical qualification
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience in an FMCG or chilled manufacturing environment
  • Proven experience supervising or leading engineering teams
  • Strong understanding of PPM systems, plant reliability and downtime reduction
  • Knowledge of Health & Safety, safe systems of work and contractor control
  • IT literate (experience with systems such as Holistech beneficial)

Desirable:

  • Experience within food or meat processing environments
  • Knowledge of Lean / 5S / continuous improvement tools
  • Experience supporting audits and driving compliance standards

🌟 What you’ll bring

  • Strong leadership and team development skills
  • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset
  • Ability to work at pace in a fast-moving environment
  • High standards around safety, quality and performance

💡 Why join us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a senior supervisory role where you’ll lead from the front, influence engineering performance, and help drive operational excellence across site.

Pilgrim’s Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.

Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.

Across Pilgrim’s Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim’s Europe team are based in our Pilgrim’s UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s Shared Services businesses.

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