Engineering Team Leader

📍 Boston, Lincolnshire
💷 £56,500
⏰ 4 on 4 off | Days & Nights Rotation

✅ £56,500 Basic Salary

✅ Clear progression pathway into a Maintenance Manager position within 2-3 years

✅ 80% hands-on engineering role with 20% leadership responsibilities

✅ Join a business that has recently invested £1.5 million into site improvements

✅ Long-term career development opportunities

✅ Stable and growing manufacturing environment

✅ Opportunity to make a genuine impact and influence engineering standards

✅ Supportive leadership team focused on employee development

We are currently recruiting for an Engineering Team Leader to join a fast-paced FMCG manufacturing site in Boston.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Engineer looking to step into leadership while remaining heavily involved in day-to-day engineering activities.

Unlike many Team Leader positions, this role is 80% hands-on engineering and 20% people management, meaning you'll still spend the majority of your time fault finding, repairing machinery, carrying out PPMs, and supporting production.

You'll lead a team of 2 engineers on shift, ensuring equipment reliability, minimising downtime, and driving continuous improvement across the site.

This role offers a clear route into Maintenance Management for an ambitious engineer looking to progress their career.

• Lead and support a team of 2 shift engineers


• Allocate daily workloads and prioritise maintenance activities


• Provide technical guidance and coaching to engineers on shift


• Drive a proactive maintenance culture across the department


• Support skills development and performance improvement initiatives


• Conduct shift handovers and communicate effectively with production teams


• Act as the first point of contact for engineering-related issues during your shift

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) activities


• Respond quickly and effectively to machinery breakdowns


• Diagnose and repair both electrical and mechanical faults


• Minimise downtime and maximise production efficiency


• Complete root cause analysis on recurring equipment failures


• Support installation, commissioning and upgrade projects


• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and cost savings


• Drive machine reliability and engineering performance

• Diagnose and repair faults on single and three-phase systems


• Maintain motors, contactors, overloads, relays, sensors and control circuits


• Fault find on automated production and packaging machinery


• Maintain electrical distribution systems, breakers, isolators and fuses


• Work with inverter drives, servo motors, encoders and PLC-controlled equipment


• Support electrical compliance and site safety standards

• Fault find on Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC systems


• Support HMI troubleshooting and machine resets


• Assist with automation improvements and control system upgrades


• Work closely with specialist automation support when required

• Ensure all work is completed safely and in line with company procedures


• Follow permit-to-work and lock-off procedures


• Complete risk assessments where required


• Maintain accurate maintenance documentation


• Ensure compliance with current engineering and electrical regulations

• Industrial mixers and blending systems


• Ingredient dosing equipment


• Extrusion and processing lines


• Forming and cutting machinery


• Drying and baking ovens


• Automated packaging lines


• Flow wrappers and bagging machines


• Checkweighers and metal detectors


• Conveyor systems


• Pneumatic systems


• Hydraulic equipment


• Compressors and site utilities


• PLC-controlled production machinery

✅ Electrical bias preferred

✅ NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or completed Engineering Apprenticeship

✅ Strong fault-finding and diagnostic skills

✅ FMCG, food manufacturing, packaging, or fast-paced manufacturing experience

✅ Experience working with PLC-controlled machinery

✅ Ability to lead by example in a hands-on environment

✅ Comfortable working in a role that is 80% engineering and 20% management

✅ Strong communication and problem-solving abilities

✅ 17th or 18th Edition Qualification

✅ Previous Team Leader or Supervisory experience

✅ Siemens or Allen Bradley PLC experience

✅ Continuous Improvement experience

Our client is a well-established and growing manufacturing business operating within a fast-paced production environment.

Significant investment has recently been made into the site, creating exciting opportunities for engineers looking to be part of a business focused on growth, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

The company prides itself on developing its people from within and offers genuine opportunities for long-term career progression.

You'll join a close-knit engineering team where your contribution will be recognised, your ideas will be valued, and your development will be actively supported.