Engineering Manager
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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