We’re looking for a hands-on, multi-skilled engineer to join our small engineering team within a busy food manufacturing environment. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, takes pride in their work, and can make a real difference to day-to-day operations.
Summary and Purpose of Role:
- Site & Factory Production Line Maintenance of our increasingly automated business.
- Ensuring maximum Production uptime and line availability.
- Minimising unplanned downtime and reactive maintenance works, through PPM schedules, line & machine knowledge, RCA -route cause analysis of failures and implementing 100-year fixes.
- Working in collaboration with the Production Management team, skilled operators, Technical & CI to achieve targeted factory KPI’s; through onsite maintenance procedures and food safety cultural practices.
- Ensuring both health & food safety are at the forefront of all engineering activities carried out
AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY INCLUDE:
Major Activities and A strong understanding of automated / semi production processes is essential.
Responsibilities
(Job role primarily includes, but is not limited to):
Ensure an effective relationship is maintained with Production, Management and Group Leaders to take direction and effectively prioritise tasks in the most appropriate way to maximise Production output.
- Proactively respond to Engineering issues raised through site performance monitoring systems to improve OEE and Plan attainment.
- To provide support in pre-production line checks to ensure
Safety, quality and efficient start-ups.
- Ensure business maintains maximum effectiveness and benefit from existing and new site technology / automation.
- Ensure that you work to meet with legislative and Company ethical standards in terms of safety, and food hygiene.
- Utilise site maintenance systems (Hollistech), to improve engineering effectiveness.
- Apply a RFT- “right first time” mentality to equipment maintenance and performance and all work you do.
- Help review & adapt PPM schedules through effective use of site systems.
- Ensure parts are correctly assigned and effectively booked out to work orders to maintain correct stock holding.
- Managing and work alongside OEM contractors whilst on site
- Be involved in project work and Capital expenditure projects.
Interpersonal skills: Good communication skills to share knowledge and make improvements with the wider Ilchester Cheese team.
- Works well independently under your own drive and as part of the wider team and well bonded engineering unit.
- Being accountable for your own actions and comfortable in making decisions to maximise run time of the site and turnaround of break downs.
- Making informed decisions in the absence of management
- A ‘can do’ ‘let’s making it happen’ attitude.
- Willingness to learn, operate & repair old & new machinery.
- Thinking with consideration, insight and a methodical approach.
Outputs & Deliverables: Conduct frequent quality checks on equipment to ensure no maintenance is required, planning in any that is required with the Engineering manager and Planning dept.
- Complete emergency maintenance tasks when equipment has unplanned failure.
- Ensure engineering compliance with relevant BS standards and European directive requirements. PUWER, UKCA etc.
- Ensure an environment and culture of safe working practices are understood and maintained, by personally demonstrating safe behaviour.
- Work closely with all functions to ensure a food safety & GMP is always maintained.
- Proactively manage the planned maintenance programme continually optimising and improving it.
- Support the manufacturing operation ensuring that the overall technical and operational expertise of the factory is enhanced.
Through this initiative, develop higher levels of plant ownership, increasing plant/machinery utilisation and performance.
- With the management teams, ensure that the productive capability of the plant is optimised and improved for the needs of the business.
- Utilise site systems & data to drive performance and OEE.
- Apply a “right first time” mentality to equipment maintenance and performance.
- Promote a positive team culture to achieve the site targets alongside manufacturing.
- Work closely with all support functions to ensure engineering actions are closed out OTIF and the site is always audit ready.
- Communicate daily with production leaders to ensure planned maintenance and engineering breakdowns are dealt with effectively to reduce the amount of down time.
Background & Profile: Food manufacturing experience essential.
- Engineering experience in an automated/semi-automated FMCG type manufacturing environment is essential.
- Time served Engineering NVQ or City & Guilds apprenticeship qualification.
- Use of engineering maintenance software desirable.
- Knowledge/experience with robotics/automation
- HNC/HND in Electromechanical engineering or equivalent desirable but not essential.
- Multiskilled experience with Electrical Bias essential
- Understanding of pneumatic and mechanical systems essential
Working Hours:
Rotating Shift Pattern of 6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm Monday to Friday
Flexibility to cover night shift for holiday and absence purposes may be required.
100 Banked hours per year to cover weekend and out of hours working.
Salary & Benefits:
- Range of £50,000 to £52,000 per year depending on experience
- 9.75% Employer and 3.25% Employee Pension
- Private healthcare and dentistry
- 33 Days holiday per year (incl Bank Holidays)
- Financial Advice Benefit