Engineering Team Leader

The Engineering Team Leader plays a key role in driving sustainable, continuous improvement across the site. You’ll be responsible for delivering immediate and short-term business goals aligned with the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), while ensuring the achievement of all key QCDSEM metrics—Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety & Environment, and Manpower. In this role, you’ll foster a dynamic and inspiring culture where people are motivated, valued, and encouraged to work hard while exceeding expectations and achieving outstanding results.

Normal hours of work are an average of 42 hours per week.

Your Normal Daily Hours Of Work Are

• 2 x days 05:00 – 17:00
• 2 x nights 17:00 – 05:00
• 4 x rest days

Sofina Foods is more than just a food company. It’s a place where you can grow your career, learn new skills, and make a positive impact.

With a wide range of meat and seafood products that delight consumers worldwide, Sofina Foods is always looking for talented and passionate people to join its team of over 13,000 employees across 40 sites in Canada and Europe.

At Sofina Foods, you will be part of a culture that values innovation, quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. You will work with diverse and delicious products that are sourced responsibly and sustainably from over 50 different protein sources from 5 continents.

Our vision is to be the most successful food company in the world - If you are looking for a rewarding and exciting career in the food sector, Sofina Foods is the place for you.

Key Accountabilities

• Exercise diligence and independent judgement to promote transparent, values-led and professional management of the site.
• Act as a professional and trusted advisor to the Engineering and site Management team on all maintenance and engineering matters.
• Accountable for driving maintenance completion to the highest standards whilst ensuring all safety and legal requirements are met
• Responsible for the safe control of contractors.
• Deliver daily plan briefings & shift handovers
• Monitor performance and proactively react to achieve required results.
• Report on KPIs and use results to drive improved performance.
• Regular constructive engagement with, and co-ordination of, the broader engineering teams (other sites, HSE Depts) to facilitate the local delivery of site engineering goals.

Skills And Experience Required

• Recognised and validated maintenance engineering qualification or certificate training to NVQ Level 3 standard in Electrical Engineering / Mechanical Engineering
• Level 3 Food Hygiene (or equivalent)
• Level 3 HACCP (or equivalent).
• Evident confidence in presentation, communication and negotiating with professional peer groups.
• Efficient in delivering objectives and key measures.
• Ability to work with peers in a matrix structure to draw in external skills to achieve local goals
• Track record of delivery
• Ability to manage priorities and projects
• A personal commitment to role model behaviours and to leadership and management through example

Benefits

• Competitive rates
• Online Benefits Hub
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Company pension
• Referral programme
• Health & wellbeing programme