Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products. 

We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people;  they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

An exciting opportunity has arisen at our Bradford Bakery for an Engineering Front Line Manager to join our Engineering Team. The role will be responsible for managing, developing and leading functional excellence in a team of Shift Engineers, focused on improvements and responsible for generating and delivering capital projects/management for all aspects of material usage on site.

Key Responsibilities include: -

• PPM & Corrective work compliance
• Budget Control
• Ratio of running to stopped maintenance
• H&S KPI’s
• Support operational FLMs with technical knowledge
• Contractor work scoping and control
• To generate improvement ideas, plan and implement
• Share best practice with other sites
• Development & Management of line engineering team
• H&S Management
• Develop a culture of autonomous maintenance
• Occassional (high tech) physical maintenance activity
• Provide support to the ‘reactive’ teams by exception
• Propose, submit and manage capital projects up to £50k
• Ensure total compliance will all applicable corporate and legal standards (personal safety, food safety, quality, hygiene and environment)

The ideal candidate should:

• Be adaptable, flexible and demonstrate a willingness to accept changes in operational requirements at short notice
• Have Food or FMCG Engineering experience
• Have the Ability to work on own initiative
• Have Knowledge of basic baking techniques
• Have Leadership/Management experience
• Budget Control awareness
• Good knowledge of H&S

The hours for the role are Monday to Friday with flexibility to support the needs of the business.

Why work for us and our benefits:

At Hovis, we understand the importance of looking after our colleagues, so we provide a variety of benefits in addition to their salaries. The benefits we provide at Hovis are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creating value to them personally over and above their salaries

• There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.

• Our benefits scheme is called Hovis Choice, which offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone.  It also includes our Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike at a significant saving

• We offer competitive annual leave entitlement and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance

• We celebrate loyalty with our generous long service and colleague recognition schemes

• We offer three levels of pensions

Hovis values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.