Engineering Team Leader

Vitacress Herbs, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Posted Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 00:00

Job title: Engineering Team Leader

Location:Vitacress Herbs (Runcton, Chichester)

Salary range: Up to £52,000 Depending on Experience

Hours:40

Contract type:Permanent.

Do you have previous experience as a leader within engineering?

Passionate about the sector we work in and want to make a difference?

Well this could be the right opportunity for you!

As our new Engineering Team Leader Engineering Team Leader you will ideally have a hands on approach in managing your team within a busy environment. You will also ensure that communication is of the highest standard preventing conflict and confusion between production staff and engineering team members.

The ability to lead and develop a small team of maintenance engineers, ensuring they receive communication and training will be essential, with an opportunity to work closely with production staff members within the factory to build on the relationship between production and engineering.

Main responsibilities:

• Responsible for continuously striving to improve OEE (overall equipment efficiency) by efficiently and effectively reducing breakdowns of factory machinery.
• To ensure that communication is of the highest standard preventing conflict and confusion between production staff and engineering team members.
• Through submitting continuous improvement ideas i.e. plan, implement and review with the focus of reducing down time on machinery and reducing waste
• Complete administrative paperwork such as signing off work orders, raising corrective work orders (including planning/organising planned maintenance and repairs); time sheets and wages information along with any other employment forms
• Ensure that production specifications and quality standards are adhered to.
• Be able to monitor team performance and carry out performance review of team members.
• Support Autonomous Maintenance.
• Achieve and sustain a high level of GMP.
• Liaise with external suppliers and agencies, along with internal company engineering colleagues.

You will have outstanding communication and team leadership skills - Essential, with the ability to liaise and work with external suppliers and agencies successfully.

A Level 3 National certificate in electrical/electronic engineering or similar would be essential.

If you also have aHealth & Safety certificate, IOSH or a certificate in leadership/management this would be desirable.

Apply today or for any further queries please do reach out to our Talent Acquisition Team at

Vitacress Herbs , based just outside historic Chichester, West Sussex, is a primary supplier of Herb and horticulture products in the UK. With our 23-acre site covered in specialist glass houses, we take immense pride in our work ensuring our consumers have a fresh, quality product to enhance their home cooking or enhance their garden environment. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standards and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the herbs that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing out talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.

Job Family Engineering

Pay Type Salary

Vitacress Herbs, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom