# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [More Years](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/24G8ZUHmcKqEpTNUX9pwAd.md)
**Location:** Nottingham, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Operations

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## Description

### Join Our Pack 🐶🍽️

From a bold idea to revolutionising dog food, **Years** has grown into a fast-scaling business dedicated to helping dogs live longer, healthier lives.  

In just 3 years, we’ve built a great start up business, serving **thousands of happy customers**, all while striving to achieve our mission. 

Our goal? To give dog owners a **better, fresher, and healthier** way to feed their pets. We provide **human cut, personalised meals** designed to support each dog’s unique needs, delivered straight to their door - no preservatives, no compromises, just real nutrition. 

You can find our customers across the **UK**, with future ambitions to **scale internationally** and continue transforming how people care for their dogs. 

### Your Mission:

As our Engineering Manager, you’ll build and lead the engineering function at a fast-scaling food production business - taking full ownership of reliability, maintenance strategy, and engineering standards across the site.

This is a rare opportunity to step into a leadership role where you’re not inheriting a legacy system - you’re building it. From day one, you’ll shape how engineering operates: designing preventative maintenance systems, setting standards, building a team, and creating the infrastructure required to support production at scale.

You’ll balance hands-on problem solving with strategic thinking - driving down downtime, improving equipment performance, and implementing systems that move the business from reactive firefighting to proactive, data-led engineering.

If you’re someone who takes pride in building high-performing teams, enjoys solving complex operational problems, and wants to leave a lasting mark on a growing business - this role gives you that platform.

### What You’ll Be Responsible For:

-   Build, recruit, and lead the Engineering team - setting clear standards, structure, and daily direction
-   Design and implement a preventative maintenance (PPM) and asset care programme from the ground up
-   Own and improve engineering KPIs - downtime, MTTR, MTBF, and PPM adherence
-   Lead reactive and proactive engineering activity to maximise equipment reliability
-   Drive continuous improvement projects to reduce downtime and improve line performance
-   Oversee installation, commissioning, and optimisation of new machinery and upgrades
-   Ensure full compliance with health & safety and food manufacturing standards
-   Manage engineering budget, contractor relationships, and supplier sourcing
-   Build and maintain an organised, well-equipped workshop and spares system
-   Work closely with Production, NPD, and Operations on trials, automation, and scale-up initiatives
-   Embed a culture of accountability, safety, and engineering excellence

## Requirements

### What You’ll Bring:

-   Strong mechanical and electrical engineering background within a production or manufacturing environment
-   Proven experience leading or stepping into a leadership role within engineering
-   Experience building or running preventative maintenance (PPM) systems
-   Solid understanding of production equipment - conveyors, mixers, weighers, chillers, packaging lines
-   Exposure to automation and PLC-controlled systems
-   Experience managing budgets, contractors, and external suppliers
-   Strong understanding of health & safety within a food or regulated environment
-   Flexibility - there may be some evening and weekend work required based on project requirements (agreed directly with Line Management where needed)

### How You Work:

-   You take ownership - you don’t wait for systems, you build them
-   You’re hands-on when needed but think strategically about long-term improvements
-   You prioritise effectively and stay calm under pressure
-   You communicate clearly across teams and bring people with you
-   You set high standards and build a culture that reflects them
-   You’re driven by continuous improvement and measurable results

## Benefits

### **What’s In It For You? Years Benefits**

-   £55,000 - £65,000 PA
-   Medicash Cash Back programme
-   Annual £250.00 Learning & Development budget for courses, books or other self-learn activities
-   Access to Spill EAP and Mental Wellbeing support
-   Annual £200.00 Wellbeing budget
-   Up to 2 weeks working abroad per year (selected roles)
-   Monthly recognition through our Yappa of The Month programme
-   1 Volunteer day per year - dog themed or not: it’s your choice!
-   Subsidised employee groups - from five a side to padel there’s loads to get involved in or the chance to start up your own group
-   Exclusive discounts on Years and Years treats for yourself and friends/family
-   Lunch & Learn programme - from dog first aid to financial savviness we’ve got sessions planned to cover all kinds of topics
-   Casual dress
-   Your birthday off or different day if it falls on a non-working day
-   Ability to sell any unused holiday back to Years at the end of the Holiday Year (maximum 1 working week)