Job Description

Salary
Range 72,592 to 80,000 per annum
Lead. Influence. Transform.
Are you a visionary engineer ready to lead the electrical and control function in a pivotal food manufacturing site? Do you thrive on strategic thinking, developing people, and owning site-wide reliability and safety?
At British Sugar, we're investing in the future. As our Electrical & Control Lead Engineer, you'll be at the heart of a major transformation- whilst leading the team and ensuring Electrical and Control Reliability, you will also be supporting a high-impact E&C infrastructure upgrade that underpins our long-term success.
Why This Role Stands Out
We're commissioning a multi-million-pound investment in high-speed packaging and palletising technology at our Bury St Edmunds site. This isn't just a maintenance role-it's a strategic leadership position at the core of our automation and reliability journey.
You'll lead the entire electrical and control infrastructure, working alongside capital project teams to deliver step-change improvements and enable our Industry 4.0 ambitions.
What You'll Be Responsible For

• Lead and line-manage a team of dedicated Electrical & Control Engineers and technicians.
• Influence and support multi-skilled technicians across the site, driving high standards.
• Own electrical safety, compliance, and performance improvement programmes.
• Develop and deliver long-term reliability, risk, and asset integrity strategies across a 250m estate.
• Manage all electrical and control changes-from small-scale modifications to capital projects.
• Champion cybersecurity in control systems and enable digital resilience.
• Drive defect elimination, reduce downtime, and optimise throughput.
• Lead cross-site expert forums, sharing best practice and standardising approaches.
• Coach and develop engineers, technicians, and production teams to build site-wide competence.
• Support strategic decision-making and deputise for the Engineering Support Manager as needed.

What You'll Bring

• Chartered Engineer status (or equivalent experience).
• Strong expertise in electrical engineering, controls, and industrial instrumentation.
• Proven leadership in maintenance, reliability, and compliance.
• Experience managing technical teams and influencing larger operational groups.
• Excellent coaching, communication, and decision-making skills.
• A track record of leading continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

About the Site
Our Bury St Edmunds Customer Supply site is British Sugar's centre of excellence for icing sugar and consumer packaging. We produce over 80 million 1kg packs and 53,000 tonnes of icing sugar annually. The site is undergoing a bold transformation-upgrading to cutting-edge automation, boosting reliability, and preparing for the future. A significant E&C infrastructure investment is your next big challenge.
Why Join British Sugar?
We're the UK's largest sugar producer, processing the entire UK sugar beet crop and supporting over 7,000 jobs. We invest continuously in safety, sustainability, and innovation-empowering our people to lead lasting change.
Ready to Lead Real Impact?
This is a rare opportunity to step into a site-critical role where your leadership will shape the future of our factory and team. If you're a strategic, people-focused engineering leader-we want to hear from you.
Apply now and power the next chapter in British Sugar's success.
We are committed to creating an environment where all our people are treated with respect and given the opportunities to succeed. We want British Sugar to be a great, inclusive place to work for everyone.
A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES:
We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!
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