Job
Overview.

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

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