Location
Aldridge, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Come and help shape the future of engineering and maintenance at Biffa, the UK’s leader in the circular economy. This is a high-impact leadership role where you’ll take full ownership of site engineering performance, develop people, embed standards, and directly influence safety, reliability, and cost.

As Engineering Manager, you will be accountable for the safe, reliable and cost-effective performance of all site assets at Aldridge PRF. You’ll lead and develop the onsite engineering team, embed best-practice maintenance standards, and ensure engineering is a trusted partner to Operations. Reporting to the Regional Engineering Manager, you’ll be a key member of the site leadership team and play a pivotal role in overall site performance.

This role suits someone who enjoys ownership, leads with discipline and clarity, and balances short-term uptime with long-term asset health.

Your core responsibilities include:
- Leading, coaching and developing a multi-disciplinary engineering team, fostering accountability and high performance
- Creating, embedding and maintaining a strong safety culture, ensuring full compliance with all engineering and H&S standards
- Driving asset reliability through effective preventative maintenance, maintaining PM compliance consistently above 95%
- Reducing breakdowns and reactive maintenance, improving overall plant availability and site performance
- Managing contractors effectively, ensuring safe systems of work and quality delivery
- Carrying out Root Cause Analysis and implementing sustainable, long-term engineering solutions
- Planning, executing and continuously improving shutdown activities to minimise downtime and risk
- Taking ownership of engineering OPEX, contributing to CAPEX planning, embedding engineering standards, and ensuring best practice is consistently applied

Experience
Proven engineering or maintenance management experience
Strong Health & Safety leadership in an industrial environment
Coaching and developmental leadership style
Commercially aware with understanding of OPEX and CAPEX
Confident communicator at all levels
Structured, calm and decisive approach

About you
You are a disciplined leader who enjoys ownership and accountability.
You balance short-term operational uptime with long-term asset health.
You foster a strong safety culture and lead by example.
You are commercially aware and able to influence budgets and planning.
You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable working collaboratively across teams.

Qualifications
Relevant engineering or management qualifications are desirable but not explicitly stated.
Support is provided for further qualifications including Degrees, MBA, and Level 5 / Level 7 programmes through structured development and IET corporate partnership.

Benefits
Competitive salary
Be part of a business actively transforming engineering and maintenance standards
Enjoy real autonomy and trust with clear visibility of your impact
Clear progression opportunities with structured support for further qualifications
IET corporate partnership with professional membership paid and ongoing development fully supported
Generous pension scheme
Dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion, fostering a creative and effective working environment