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Job title: Site Engineering Manager          

Department: Engineering

Salary: A competitive salary is available plus great company benefits 

Location: On-site - (Park Royal - NW10)

Hours: Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week

Little Moons are frozen and chilled mochi, a fusion of Eastern and Western cuisine – soft and chewy rice flour dough wrapped around balls of ice cream, cheesecake, or chocolate ganache to create a distinctive, bite-sized, and delicious dessert that’s bursting with flavour.

Their rollout across Europe has been pioneered by sister and brother duo Vivien and Howard Wong, who founded Little Moons in 2010.  The product’s roots are in high-end restaurants, but over the last five years retail packs have swept the ice cream category in grocery and food service.

Little Moons has rapidly established mochi, and snacking ice cream, across Europe. In 2024 we generated more than £60m revenue, and in 2025 we continue to drive towards double digit growth.

We are very proud of the culture that we have built at Little Moons. Not to stroke our own egos, but we are a great bunch of people—smart, passionate, interesting, and funny—who work hard to support and live our values, all the while keeping our mission in our forethoughts.

The Role:

As Site Engineering Manager, you will be a key member of the site leadership team, driving engineering excellence across our two main manufacturing sites, Little HQ and Unit 3. Reporting directly to the Operations Site Lead, you will play a vital role in shaping the engineering strategy and supporting our journey toward operational excellence.

In this dynamic role, you'll ensure that engineering and legislative functions are seamlessly aligned with financial deadlines, all while managing the department’s operations within an agreed budget. Your leadership will be crucial in fostering a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring high standards of safety, compliance, and efficiency across the sites.

Key Responsibilities:

• Health & Safety – To ensure the engineering function at a minimum meets its legislative requirements, whilst taking a leadership and support role in promoting the EH&S culture and agenda for LHQ and Unit 3

• Food Safety – To set the high standards required and ensure BRC as a minimum benchmark, ensure the right procedures are in place and regularly reviewed up to ensure clear guidance to engineers and contractors 

• Management of Engineering department – To lead and develop the team and ensure best leadership skills are transferred, and any training and personal development is recognised and implemented.

• Financial Control (SAGE) – Overseeing the team and ensuring they comply with the financial rules in place, accountable for the budget, recognising costs saving and reviewing the budget when it is under review.

• Computerised Maintenance System (Shire) – Overseeing the system and adapting it to build upon the foundations built. Ensuring any changed are followed through and rolled out. Looking at data inputted and looking for patterns to ensure cost saving or drive better efficiency

• Compliance – Overseeing the legal compliance of the engineering function, looking at contacts and ensuring all actions are completed, this will require interacting with local authorities 

• Contractor Control – Managing the contractor policy and ensuring everything being followed, regularly reviewing to ensure best practices are in place and adapt accordingly

• Reporting – Reporting to the leadership team KPIs and being accountable for engineering actions

• Play a key role in the ownership and delivery of the Site Masterplan.  Project manage all capital investment projects.  Many of these projects are transformational in how we make our product and will be highly rewarding to take a lead on.  They will require strong skills in the fields of project/financial management, communication and governance.

• Assume the position of electrical duty holder and as a competent person in relation to L8 compliance

• Identify areas of cost savings whilst maintaining machinery availability, negotiating with suppliers and improve the throughput and efficiency of the process by introducing automation and good practice.

• Contribute to the business’ Sustainability strategy by delivering your Brighter Future Sustainability objectives and supporting your direct reports to deliver theirs.

Essential Requirements:

• Strong understanding of electrical and mechanical engineering

• Demonstrable experience of working practically within a similar fast-paced/scale-up environment

• Intermediate/advanced experience of food hygiene to legislative standards

• Structured problem-solving techniques, man-management skills, and the ability to work on initiative and part of a team

• Ideally experience of working with TPM/operational best practice

• Good communicator at all levels

• Quality and safety conscious, self-motivated, and driven by results

Some of the benefits of working here include:

Little Moons is a fast-growing and dynamic business, the nature of which means roles and responsibilities can change and grow quickly and at scale. We never stand still for long, and for the right person this represents an opportunity to grow and evolve your role and responsibilities with us and to develop your career at pace.

We will provide you with as much support, guidance, and training as you need, and offer the below benefits to boot:

• Medicash, Private Health Scheme & Life Insurance

• Enhanced New Baby Leave available.

• We understand that mental health matters. We partner with Health Assured to provide remote emotional support to team members.

• Discretionary annual bonus based on personal & company performance.

• Paid sick leave

• Respect, trust, and honesty. Personal and professional maturity is important to us, and we keep each other honest

• Your holidays – We believe in finding your work-life alignment and encourage all staff to use their 25 days, plus public holidays

• Additional days off with long service

• Team volunteer days

To be engaged, you must feel included and valued, so we have built, and nurtured, a culture where inclusiveness is not a buzzword, but a way of being.

Our approach to diversity is simple —it’s about embracing everyone, and everyone is welcome at Little Moons.   We are committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation or expression.   We are diverse in age, race, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective. Our diversity fuels our innovation, bring diversity of thought, and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve.

All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.