Engineering Manager

Job Description

📣 A bit about the role.

As the Engineering Manager for our UK Operations; Rudie’s Kitchen our Manufacturing Operation and Ace’s Pantry our UK Warehouse & Fulfilment Centre, you will play a pivotal role in embedding engineering best practice for a newly created operation.

This position requires a planned approach to maintain continuous production, enhance operational efficiencies, and guarantee the safety of our processes.

The Engineering Manager will have a fundamental role in establishing the manufacturing credentials of the UK Operational Site. They will face many challenges and will have the resilience, ingenuity, creativity and capability to adapt to the circumstances. Working with the wider team, will create systems, processes and ultimately a working environment that matches the aspirations of the business.

This role presents an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to lead and shape the site engineering team for our UK manufacturing, warehouse, and fulfilment operations.

In this role, you can expect to…

• Build the internal engineering capability at the new facility, shaping the technical policies and strategy.
• Lead the day-to-day operational performance of all assets and the forward-looking strategy for all aspects of equipment care and reliability.
• Train, manage, lead and build a professional engineering function in-line with the values of the business. A team capable of supporting the future growth opportunities and challenges.
• Leading all aspects of HSE on site, ensuring that processes, procedures and systems are legally compliant and fit for the business.
• Champion the adoption of best practices, including supporting, encouraging and maintaining a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide strategic engineering support to assist the business in achieving its longer-term goals and priorities.
• Support the wider business in delivering the engineering agenda and ensuring that the engineering function is in-step with other areas of the business in terms of engagement, communication, and welfare.
• Play an active role in achieving the B-Corp status, leading relevant activities within the engineering function related to corporate social responsibility.
• Support the wider leadership team in creating a high-performing environment and a culture of achievement together with a strong focus on safety and asset care.

👋 A bit about you.

• A people-centric mindset but with the commercial acumen to focus on doing the right thing for Butternut and the customer.
• Lives the values of Butternut, creating an open culture and promoting a collaborative approach across all functions.
• A leader, motivator, and an excellent influencer with the ability to tackle complex challenges and create simple solutions.
• A highly pragmatic and adaptable approach, given the scale of change, backed by strong intellectual rigour and a results focused style.
• High energy levels and an understanding of the commitment that is required to help shape the future success of the site.
• Experience of working in a high-calibre manufacturing environment.
• High levels of resilience will be needed to cope with the wide range of challenges and opportunities that are presented. Someone who sees change as an opportunity and not a problem.
• Qualified to Degree level in an Engineering discipline.
• Experience in Managing Engineering Legal Compliance
• Excellent Communication skills, able to engage with shift operations teams
• High level of planning, organisation and effectively able to manage and measure work of your team
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Loves dogs (naturally)

🐶 A bit about us.

At Butternut, the mission is to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. In order to do just that, we need a team of forward-thinking, driven people who love dogs as much as we do. And we need quite a big kitchen too. Which is precisely why we have built one.

Located in Doncaster, Rudie's Kitchen and Ace's Pantry are where all the magic happens, so to speak. It's where the tasty Butternut meals and treats will be gently cooked, using human-quality ingredients because, the way we see it, we wouldn't serve food to dogs that we wouldn't be happy to eat ourselves. At Butternut, we believe dogs deserve better, and if that's something you think too, we want to hear from you.

Butternut has come a long way since Kev & Dave (co-founders) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, and we are now looking for brilliant people to join the team for this next part of the story.

Are you up for the challenge?

🥳What's In It For You?🥳

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year, plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
• 39 hours of pre-booked paws days to support good wellbeing and self care.*
• Unlock a £500 annual budget for personal learning and development.
• Get discounted Private Medical Insurance with Vitality Healthcare and dental care with Bupa.
• Funded Sabbatical policy after 5 years of service
• Enhanced primary caregiver policy
• Satisfy your taste buds with subsidised food from a variety of street food vans, and of course, pay day pizza!
• Treat your furry friend with an employee discount on Butternut Box.
• Say goodbye to parking woes with free parking and electric car charging.
• Prepare for adorable office dog overload—meet Cleo, Paxo, Cali, Ronnie, Harvey, Milo, and many more!

❗️A few things to note:

Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance.

We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career, if it makes your application easier for you please feel free to complete the application form in your native language, we are really happy to translate it afterwards.

We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

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