Engineering Team Leader - Greater Manchester - c£45,000 Overview: This is a food manufacturing business where no two days are the same. A place where your leadership transforms challenges into opportunities, and your expertise drives a high-performing team towards engineering excellence. Sound like your kind of challenge? The Opportunity We're looking for a proactive and skilled Engineering Team Leader to oversee our clients maintenance team, ensuring seamless operations across safety, compliance, and continuous improvement. In this role as Lead Engineer, you'll take ownership of projects, respond swiftly to challenges, and drive efficiency to minimize downtime. More than just solving problems, you'll focus on preventing them—leading a team that excels under pressure and continuously improves the way they work. You must be prepared to work different shifts and weekends for this role. So, what can they offer you? There are excellent development opportunities here for the Engineering Team Leader; they’ll have a detailed and structured development plan and opportunities to upskill yourself through training and qualifications. On top of your salary there is a bonus based on performance and a profit sharing bonus annually. Additionally, you have the choice of being paid for being on called or you can happily take the time back in lieu. They’re looking to pay c£45,000 with slight flex for someone exceptional. About you… You will ideally have 5 years food industry experience in a similar role to this one with an appropriate engineering qualification. Continuous improvement is an important factor to this role so experience in the use of CI techniques/Lean/6 Sigma is required. It is crucial that you also have knowledge of water treatment and BRC standards and compliance. We’re looking to speak to Lead Engineers, Senior Engineers, Maintenance Engineers etc. within the Manchester, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Stoke-on-Trent areas. True North Talent is recognised as a trusted supplier of permanent, contract and interim recruitment services to the food manufacturing and FMCG industries. Our teams of specialist recruiters operate across Operations/Engineering/Technical/NPD/Supply Chain and Commercial. We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants. For more information on True North Talent or to discuss how we can find talent for your business then please visit our website