# Lead Engineer

**Company**: Biffa Waste Services
**Location**: London, Greater London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £58,000
**Category**: Engineering

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join our team at our Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Edmonton. As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for leading and supporting a team of multi-skilled technicians, driving plant performance, reducing downtime, prioritizing engineering activity, and ensuring maintenance work is completed safely and efficiently.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and supervising a shift team of engineers and contractors to maximize plant performance and uptime

- Prioritizing planned and reactive maintenance activities to support operational requirements

- Carrying out fault finding, diagnostics, and repairs across plant and machinery

- Delivering preventative and breakdown maintenance to minimize downtime

- Supporting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and implementing long-term corrective actions

- Identifying continuous improvement opportunities to improve reliability and engineering efficiency

- Ensuring all engineering activities are carried out safely and in line with company procedures

- Supporting and developing engineering team capability and skill progression

- Maintaining accurate maintenance records using the CMMS system

- Ensuring high standards of housekeeping, engineering practice, and communication through effective shift handovers and reporting

Our essential requirements include:

- HNC qualified in Mechanical or Plant Engineering

- Previous experience supervising engineering teams within an industrial, manufacturing, or processing environment

- Strong fault finding and problem-solving ability

- Experience with hydraulics, pneumatics, and welding

- Ability to prioritize workloads and perform well in a fast-paced operational environment

We offer a competitive salary of £58,000 inclusive of LW allowance, plus benefits such as ongoing career development, training, and coaching, a generous pension scheme, retail and leisure discounts, holiday and travel discounts, and life cover.

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## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Plant Engineering
- Hydraulics
- Pneumatics
- Welding
- Fault Finding
- Problem Solving

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