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Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Engineer

MCB-CITP
Cheshire, England
£50k - 55k per year + UP TO £8K Bonus
Permanent
FMCG

Job Title: Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Engineer

Function: Manufacturing & Maintenance Excellence

Department: Group Reliability & Operational Excellence

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: Monday to Friday, Days

Location: Cheshire – Warrington area, South Bank of the River Mersey

Sector: Consumer Manufacturing

Job Salary & Package:£50,000 – £55,000 base salary

Bonus up to £8,000

Exceptional pension and comprehensive benefits package

  • This is a newly created Continuous Improvement Engineering role, onsite, designed to transform maintenance and asset care performance across a high-value manufacturing site and wider group.
  • Drive performance improvements across a fast-paced factory environment.
  • You’ll lead and support continuous improvement initiatives that reduce downtime, waste, improve reliability, increase throughput, and strengthen maintenance and operational excellence performance.
  • Working closely with engineering, maintenance, and production teams, you’ll apply Lean and CI tools to improve planned downtime, reduce reactive maintenance, and embed best-practice ways of working on the shop floor.
  • You will lead manufacturing and maintenance improvement projects that modernise engineering systems, improve asset reliability, and drive a cultural shift away from reactive maintenance toward world-class planned and predictive maintenance.
  • You will work closely with engineering, maintenance, and operations teams to improve uptime, reduce breakdowns, and optimise planned downtime, using lean manufacturing, TPM, and reliability engineering tools.
  • While this is not a tools-on role, it is highly hands-on from a coaching, influencing, and delivery perspective.
  • With over £100m being invested in site assets, this role offers genuine autonomy and the opportunity to shape how maintenance excellence is delivered long-term.

Key Responsibilities – Continuous Improvement Engineer

  • Lead manufacturing and maintenance performance improvement projects, focused on reliability, availability, and asset care
  • Reduce downtime, losses, and inefficiencies across production assets
  • Improve planned maintenance effectiveness and asset reliability
  • Use Lean tools (5S, Kaizen, RCA, TPM, OEE) to drive sustainable improvements
  • Coach and support engineers and operators in CI methodologies
  • Use data, KPIs, and CMMS insights to identify and prioritise improvements
  • Improve planned maintenance effectiveness, reducing unplanned downtime and reactive maintenance hours
  • Develop and update engineering and maintenance systems, including CMMS optimisation and standardisation
  • Introduce and embed condition-based maintenance, RCA, and data-led decision-making tools
  • Define equipment criticality to prioritise asset care strategies based on safety, risk, and production impact
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, FMEA, TPM, and reliability engineering techniques
  • Lead and support root cause analysis on major failures and ensure corrective actions are embedded
  • Continuously update maintenance plans and schedules using learnings from failures and performance data
  • Deliver coaching  to engineers and operators on the shop floor, building capability in CI tools and best-practice maintenance

What We’re Looking For – Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Engineer

  • Apprentice-trained Engineer (NVQ Level 3 minimum); HNC/HND or Degree desirable within Manufacturing and Engineering
  • Strong background in manufacturing or process environments
  • Experience working on engineering and maintenance improvement initiatives
  • Strong understanding of maintenance systems, asset care, and reliability principles
  • Engineering background in a manufacturing or process environment
  • Strong understanding of continuous improvement and Lean principles
  • Experience working with maintenance and production teams
  • Confident influencing on the shop floor
  • Experience analysing maintenance data, KPIs, and equipment history
  • Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, TPM, RCA, and CI tools
  • Experience working with maintenance-led computerised systems
  • Comfortable working autonomously in a developing, evolving function
  • Previous experience in a reliability or continuous improvement / manufacturing engineering  role is beneficial but not essential.

What’s On Offer - Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Engineer

  • A highly complex, fast-paced manufacturing environment with real technical challenge
  • Excellent salary, bonus, and market-leading pension
  • Some hybrid working available
  • Extensive training and development through structured engineering pathways
  • A strategic role within a growing Group Engineering Reliability and Continuous Improvement function
  • The opportunity to build, shape, and influence world-class maintenance systems
  • Join an award-winning, investing manufacturing market leader

Applicants that ae relevant will be a Manufacturing Engineer, Continuous Improvement Engineer, Reliability Improvement Engineer, Asset Care Engineer, Maintenance Improvement Engineer, Operational Excellence Engineer, Lean Manufacturing Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (Manufacturing), Production Improvement Engineer, Maintenance & Reliability Engineer, Operational Excellence Facilitator

Omega is an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Energy & Renewables and Tech sectors.

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