Job Description
Job Description
UK Software Engineering Manager – Bakkavor
Monday to Friday Days 8.30am-17.00pm (flex as per business needs)
Located : Bakkavor Spalding – with travel to UK Bakkavor sites
Salary : up to £70,000 depending on experience Plus £8,400 car allowance
Benefits : Annual Bonus incentive up to 20% of salary, Company Pension Scheme, Private Healthcare, Life Insurance Cover, Bakkavor Benefits, Bakkavor MyReward, Bakkavor My Bargains, 25 Days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays.
Excellent opportunities to develop and progress across Bakkavor UK and the wider Bakkavor Group
The Company
We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.
The Role
This is an exciting new opportunity for a UK Software Engineering Manager to manage, lead, develop and optimise Engineering Software Systems across the Bakkavor Group and across our Bakkavor UK sites to optimise the UK estate.
You will own and deliver the Bakkavor engineering software strategy by ensuring software management strategies are identified and embedded across the estate. Your role will require you to support UK sites to deliver, maintain and manage software systems.
You will be required to use advanced production and processing techniques and project management skills to deliver new projects on time, to budget and at the required quality.
You will compile and provide a full set of documentation for the scope of works and prepare CEPs to support capital developments across the estate.
Working with multifunctional teams, you will lead technical engineering performance reviews and continuous improvement activities.
Duties and accountabilities;
- lead the auditing of the software systems installed across the Bakkavor estate.
- lead and develop a site support and rapid response strategy.
- lead the development of software updates and the creation of a software library.
- the creation of software strategies to meet organisational goals.
- an active role in the Engineering Strategy Pillar.
- the estate strategy to identify intervention and mitigation options for the failure of assets. For example, obsolescence replacement programmes, standardisation, spare part management, change in operation.
- an effective impact and contingency plan for software systems and/or service failures. Lead consultation with subject matter experts.
- and present reports, for example, performance reports, asset management plans, reports to sector and certifying bodies.
- the management and selection of external suppliers, the setting of objectives for suppliers and performance measurement of suppliers within the context of the organisation’s asset management approach.
- and challenge the sign-off of any new engineering systems requirements from capital projects.
Skills / Experience;
- in Siemens, Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi and ethernet IP.
- Software engineer with leadership knowledge
- HMI, motion and communication interface proficiency.
- or experience CMMS experience, Agility preferred (Desirable).
- Management
Please click ‘APPLY NOW’ to be considered for this fantastic, exciting and new opportunity at Bakkavor.
Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!