Overview
Address: England, GB, SP2 7PU
Location: Nicholas & Harris, Salisbury, SP2 7PU
Shift: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm (with 24/7 leadership responsibilities across both day and night shifts)
Salary: Competitive with Opportunities for Growth
Remote / Hybrid: Occasional hybrid working depending on operational requirements
We are now looking for an Engineering Shift Lead to join our highly skilled engineering function and play a pivotal role in maintaining asset reliability, supporting team development, and ensuring the operational success of our Salisbury site.
Nicholas & Harris is part of the Finsbury Food Group and has over 180 years of heritage in craft baking. We’re a leading speciality bakery manufacturer supplying high-quality products across the foodservice sector. As part of Finsbury, we are committed to raising standards, investing in our people, and driving a culture of continuous improvement across all areas of the site.
Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards and build long-term relationships within the foodservice channel. Finsbury offer a wide range of bakery products and are a leading frozen supplier into the Foodservice sector.
This is What You’ll Actually Do
• Lead, coach, and support a team of multiskilled engineers across all shifts, ensuring high performance and strong communication.
• Oversee both planned and reactive maintenance, balancing priorities to maintain high levels of plant uptime and reliability.
• Ensure compliance with the Preventative Maintenance Plan (PPM) through effective use of the Ultimo CMMS system.
• Analyse engineering downtime, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions to improve asset care and performance.
• Use engineering data and KPIs to validate results, prioritise workload, and inform decision-making.
• Support continuous improvement projects to enhance safety, quality, service, cost efficiency, and sustainability.
• Promote a strong engineering culture built on safety, accountability, and teamwork.
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Technical, HSE, Compliance, Ops Support and external contractors to deliver engineering excellence.
• Ensure all engineering activities meet food safety, hygiene, and statutory compliance standards.
Ideally, This is You!
Essential:
• A minimum NVQ Level 3 in an engineering sector; an HNC/HND in Engineering or Leadership is highly desirable, with any additional relevant qualifications considered an advantage
• Proven experience leading or supervising a multiskilled engineering team within manufacturing.
• Strong technical understanding of asset care, reliability principles, and engineering best practice.
• Confident using CMMS systems (Ultimo experience highly beneficial).
• Strong influencing, communication, and coaching capability.
• Ability to analyse technical data and make informed, practical decisions.
• Highly organised, proactive, and able to lead effectively across a 24/7 operation.
• A solid understanding of PPM, health and safety legislation, and engineering compliance.
Desirable:
• Experience within food manufacturing or FMCG.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement tools or approaches.
• Understanding of bakery processes and automation systems.
• Experience with small-scale projects or improvement initiatives.
What’s in it for you?
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
Why Join Us?
Our vision is to be the UK’s leading specialty bakery group. We invest in our people because your success drives ours. If you’re passionate about operational excellence, thrive on collaboration, and want to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us shape the future of excellence at Nicholas & Harris!