1. Job Details

Job title: Engineering Manager
Business group and business unit: Amcor Flexibles EMEA, Protein BU
Function: Operations
Location: Swansea
Reports to: Plant General Manager
Advertising legal entity: Amcor Flexibles Swansea
Employing legal entity: Amcor Flexibles Swansea
Contract type: Permanent

2. Role Purpose

The Engineering Manager is accountable for the safe, compliant and cost-effective performance of the site’s engineering, maintenance, utilities and capital-project activities. The role leads the engineering team and develops a proactive asset-management and reliability strategy that improves equipment availability, reduces operational risk and loss, controls cost and supports delivery of the plant business plan.

Working closely with Operations, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), Quality, Finance, Procurement and other functions, the Engineering Manager ensures that engineering standards, statutory obligations, maintenance systems and capital investments are effectively governed and delivered. The role promotes Amcor’s strategy, vision, mission and core values and helps build a high-performance, continuous-improvement culture.

3. Scope of Responsibility

• Leadership of the site engineering and maintenance function, including team capability, resource planning, objectives and performance.
• Ownership of the site engineering, maintenance and asset-reliability strategy.
• Governance of engineering safety, compliance, statutory inspections and technical standards.
• Management of the engineering operating budget, maintenance expenditure and assigned capital investment.
• Accountability for plant, equipment, utilities, facilities and supporting infrastructure within the agreed site scope.
• Oversight of maintenance planning, scheduling, breakdown response, engineering records, critical spares and contractor activity.
• Leadership of the site engineering capital programme and delivery of assigned capital projects.

4. Key Accountabilities

Safety, Compliance and Engineering Governance

• Act as a visible safety leader and ensure that safety is the first consideration in all engineering decisions and activities.
• Work with the EHS Manager and operational leaders to maintain effective engineering policies, standards, risk controls and safe systems of work.
• Ensure robust controls for isolation, permit-to-work activities, contractor management, machinery safety, engineering modifications and management of change.
• Maintain compliance with applicable statutory inspection, equipment-safety and engineering requirements, ensuring actions are recorded and closed promptly.
• Ensure engineering work, plant modifications and capital installations are appropriately assessed, authorised, documented and handed over.

Reliability and Maintenance

• Develop and deliver a risk-based asset-management and reliability strategy aligned with plant priorities.
• Establish an effective balance of preventive, predictive, condition-based and corrective maintenance to improve equipment reliability and availability.
• Own the maintenance planning and scheduling process, including backlog control, job quality, resource allocation and schedule compliance.
• Lead structured root-cause analysis for significant or recurring failures and ensure that corrective actions prevent recurrence.
• Maintain asset criticality assessments, lifecycle plans and obsolescence strategies for key plant and infrastructure.
• Ensure that the computerised maintenance management system and engineering records are accurate, complete and used to support effective decision-making.
• Develop critical-spares and engineering-stores strategies that balance operational risk, availability and working capital.
• Partner with Operations to strengthen equipment ownership and appropriate operator-care or autonomous-maintenance routines.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach and develop the engineering and maintenance team, setting clear standards, objectives and accountabilities.
• Manage performance, attendance, development and succession in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Assess current and future capability needs and implement training and development plans to close identified gaps.
• Plan resources and working arrangements to provide effective maintenance coverage and appropriate escalation support.
• Create a collaborative, inclusive and high-performance culture focused on safety, reliability, problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Capital Projects and Technical Improvement

• Develop the site capital plan, identifying investment needs associated with safety, compliance, capacity, reliability, obsolescence, energy performance and technical advancement.
• Prepare capital-expenditure approval documentation and robust business cases for assigned investments.
• Lead assigned capital projects from concept and specification through procurement, installation, commissioning, handover and benefits realisation.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, to agreed scope, quality, budget and programme, with risks and changes actively controlled.
• Coordinate internal specialists, suppliers, contractors and vendors to deliver sustainable technical solutions.

Cost, Utilities and Sustainability

• Prepare and manage the annual engineering budget and control departmental expenditure within agreed limits.
• Monitor maintenance cost, utilities consumption and project spend; identify trends, risks and corrective actions.
• Develop and deliver cost, waste, energy and utilities improvement initiatives that support site and business objectives.
• Ensure financial controls, purchasing requirements and contractor governance are consistently applied.

Cross-Functional Leadership and Continuous Improvement

• Work in partnership with Operations, EHS, Quality, Finance, Procurement and other functions to deliver the plant business plan.
• Use data, structured problem-solving and operational-excellence methods to improve safety, equipment effectiveness, quality, cost and service.
• Communicate engineering priorities, risks, performance and recovery plans clearly to relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain effective relationships with external technical resources, regulators, insurers, contractors and equipment suppliers as required.

5. Key Performance Indicators

Performance will be assessed through an appropriate combination of:

• Engineering safety, compliance, audit and statutory-inspection performance.
• Asset availability, reliability and overall equipment effectiveness.
• Planned versus reactive maintenance and completion of preventive-maintenance activities.
• Maintenance schedule compliance, backlog health and breakdown hours.
• Mean time between failures, mean time to repair and recurrence of significant failures.
• Engineering operating cost, maintenance cost and budget performance.
• Capital-project delivery to scope, budget, programme and agreed benefits.
• Utilities consumption, energy performance and delivery of improvement initiatives.
• Engineering team capability, training completion, succession and performance.

6. Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Degree in an Engineering / Technical field
• Significant engineering and/or manufacturing experience, including leadership of a multidisciplinary engineering or maintenance team.
• Strong mechanical and/or electrical engineering knowledge with an in-depth understanding of manufacturing processes and equipment.
• Demonstrable experience of maintenance strategy, asset reliability, structured problem-solving and continuous improvement.
• Experience of managing engineering budgets, contractors and capital projects.
• Competence in the use of a computerised maintenance management system and standard business applications, including Microsoft Office or equivalent tools.
• Working knowledge of engineering safety, statutory compliance and risk-management requirements within a UK manufacturing environment.

Desirable

• Experience in flexible packaging, food-contact, hygiene-controlled or similarly regulated manufacturing.
• Experience of energy management, utilities optimisation and equipment-lifecycle planning.

7. Skills and Leadership Behaviours

• Visible, consistent and credible safety leadership.
• Ability to set direction, translate strategy into practical plans and deliver through others.
• Strong coaching, performance-management and team-development capability.
• Decisive, evidence-based judgement with effective risk awareness.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and structured problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead complex, cross-functional and large-scale projects.
• Commercial and financial awareness, including budget and investment management.
• Clear written, verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Strong organisation, prioritisation and digital skills.
• Collaborative, flexible and results-focused approach.
• Commitment to Amcor’s core values and leadership expectations, including driving for results, customer focus and influencing others.

8. Working Requirements

• Site-based role at Amcor Flexibles Swansea, working closely with plant operations and support functions.
• Ability to work safely in a manufacturing environment and comply with all site safety, hygiene and personal protective equipment requirements.
• Flexibility to provide leadership and escalation support for significant engineering issues outside normal working hours when required.
• Occasional travel for supplier visits, technical reviews, training or business meetings may be required.

This job description describes the principal purpose and accountabilities of the role. Duties may evolve in line with business needs, subject to appropriate consultation and without changing the role’s overall level of responsibility.