Location: Salford, M6
Pay: Up to 50,000 per annum
Shift/Hours:
* Week A – 14:00PM – 22:30PM Monday – Friday then 8 working hours Saturday which are flexible and managed ad-hoc between the team who will be working in pairs.
* Week B – 12:30PM – 10:30PM Monday – Friday
Job Description:
* Execute hands-on planned and unplanned maintenance activities to agreed standards, always ensuring safe working.
* Ensure assets are ready to produce products that are of an excellent quality, despatched on time in full to the satisfaction of our customers
* Ensure a robust and clearly communicated safe system of work is applied for all activities that you undertake – properly risk assessed
* Coach, train and give understanding to production colleagues to achieve continual improvements in equipment knowledge/performance
* Act with integrity at all times to build a culture of professional engineering and proactive equipment-focussed continuous improvement skills
* Ensuring that the daily engineering activity plan is delivered to the satisfaction of production
* Ensuring that plant history is captured to high standards, enabling equipment performance review
* Ensuring that the DRM structure is supported appropriately by taking proactive actions
* Ensuring that high standards to 5S levels are maintained across the factory, including workshops
* Ensuring that both chronic and repeat downtime events are rigorously assessed for true root cause.
* Ensuring that the site is always ready for internal and external food safety audits (e.g. BRC)
* Ensuring that the site is always ready for internal and external legal compliance audits (e.g. HSE)Ensuring department KPIs and targets are delivered on time and in full.
Desirable skills, qualifications and experience:
* Technical Hands-On Engineering Experience, preferably through recognised time-served apprenticeship within food manufacturing
* Technical qualifications and competence in mechanical/electrical at a minimum NVQ Level 3
* BTEC Engineering certificate/equivalent qualification
* Broad Knowledge of Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Mechanical, Electrical & PLC/Inverter Assets
* Skills and capability to logically diagnose and fault find on a variety of equipment/situations
* Strong experience in ensuring safe working and safe systems of work are utilised and followed
* Experience of risk assessing maintenance activity and controlling safe working practices
* Experience of working on high hazard equipment & competent in undertaking safe isolation
* Strong evidence of good interpersonal, communications and customer engagement skills
* Specific experience of clarifying priorities to customers in a busy environment
* Proven ability to get the best from a diverse team through a calm and clear approach
* Ability to engage positively with production to ensure equipment release for maintenance
* Experience and knowledge of Lean and Asset Care Excellence techniques – particularly root cause
Salary description
£40000.00 - £50000.00 per year