Vacancy NameSite Services EngineerEmployment TypePermanentCountryUnited KingdomLocationWisbechBusiness AreaOperationsWorkplace TypeOnsiteAbout PrincesThe Princes Group has over 7, employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.Role DescriptionPrinces Wisbech is looking for a Multi-Skilled Engineer (Site Services) to join the business.
This role has a great shift pattern working 4 on 4 off rotating days & nights 06:00 - 18:00 / 18:00 - 06:00
Benefits:
1. 14.5% Pension consisting of a 9.5% employer contribution (Opt-In)
2. Flexible holidays - the option to buy/sell up to 4 days holiday per year
3. Critical Illness Scheme
4. Enhanced Family Friendly Policy - Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave
Job Purpose:
Key responsibilities are safely maintaining and operating the effluent treatment plant, steam raising plant and ensuring an unfettered supply other site utilities to the manufacturing environment, ensuring the site operates within its environmental consent limits. Also to include other duties regarding the maintenance of general building services and fabric, yard areas and the Energy Centre, and effluent treatment plant. Timely response to plant breakdowns and planned maintenance, all owned until complete. All work formally recorded as such and handed over to oncoming team
Working on shifts, rotating nights and days, reporting to the Site Services Engineering Manager, this role is part of a team which will have responsibility for proactively managing asset care to ensure that equipment performance is optimised. The role makes a positive contribution to planning and executing all asset care activity on shift.
Plays a proactive role in the asset care element of the Engineering function on shift, to help the site achieve optimal operational efficiency at lowest cost through the delivery of targets against the strategic objectives of the Group Supply function:
Quality
Cost
Delivery
Safety
People
Work closely with the Shift Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality leaders and peer groups and Site Asset care Planner to support the delivery of an agreed Group Asset Care Strategy for the site.
Dimensions:
5. Ensure proactive response to maintenance and breakdowns on site ensuring continuity of production and services.
6. To carry out maintenance activities, ensuring the manufacturing team achieve maximum compliance to the production plan, by minimising engineering downtime.
7. Moving the maintenance strategy from a fire fighting mentality to a proactive approach.
8. Identify the root cause, records actions taken to correct fault and up date Planned Maintenance system.
9. To openly share knowledge within team to increase the department flexibility.
10. To improve the performance and efficiency of the existing plant through continuous improvement techniques.
11. Be able to communicate effectively and confidently to all levels of colleagues within Princes and be capable of maintaining professional communication with clients, suppliers, contractors and customers outside the business.
12. Ensuring both verbal and written shift handovers are carried effectively
Key Relationships:
Site
13. Site Management Team
14. Section Engineers across shifts (daily
15. Manufacturing Manager and Shift Co-ordinators
16. Technicians and Manufacturing Team Members (daily)
External
17. Suppliers and contractors (as required)
Principal Responsibilities
Safety, Quality, Hygiene
18. Ensure that when carrying out all duties that regard to own safety and that of others is always taken into account.
19. Strict adherence to all H&S work policies e.g. Lock out and Tag (Isolation of all energy sources when undertaking any work) and Use of the “Permit to Work/Enter” system.
20. Ensure purchased items conform with business, legislative, moral and European directive requirements
21. Personally demonstrate safe behaviour and take responsibility for the management of health & safety of engineering staff and contractors
22. Carry out duties ensuring the site achieves and maintains required GMP standards
23. Ensure all work conforms to statutory & safety requirements
24. Ensure that risk assessments are completed and actioned.
25. Support a culture that enhances behavioural awareness to reduce accidents and near misses
26. Reduce customer complaints and wastage through effective maintenance and continuous improvement.
Operations Management
27. With Team Leader establish clear objectives and priorities to enable manufacturing to meet operational targets.
28. Carry out site maintenance activities and ensure GMP standards are reached.
29. Responsible for recording work carried out with regards to breakdowns, repairs and modifications. Taking ownership for issues to ensure follow-up is carried out and the original issues are closed off.
30. Responsible for monitoring, updating and improving the planned maintenance system and ensuring work planned and progressed.
31. Updating of plant parameters/set points etc. as per site procedures.
32. Ensure that plant and equipment perform to manufacture product efficiently to high quality standards.
33. Assist with training and support other departments in general running of the factory.
34. Undertake the training of others as required
35. Identify own training needs and with manager agree a time plan for achieving this.
Continuous Improvement
36. Contribute to and help implement continuous improvement, to enhance quality, safety, efficiency and waste reduction.
Communication
37. Communicate as required with Planning, Manufacturing and all of site to ensure activities are implemented on time, in full, within budget.
38. Communicate daily with manager to ensure planned maintenance, engineering and production priorities are considered.
39. Communicate as required with Engineering Stores to ensure that spares are available for planned and breakdown maintenance.
40. Ensuring that good quality (“End of Shift” & “Start of Shift”) briefings take place between shift engineers
Role Requirements Knowledge
41. Effective communication
42. Engineering activities in a food manufacturing environment
43. Knowledge of Steam raising boiler equipment
44. Knowledge of how pneumatic systems work
45. Knowledge of how electrical distribution systems work
46. Knowledge of soft water systems
47. Knowledge of Legionella control
48. Advanced mechanical and electrical diagnostic skills
49. Demonstrable knowledge of relevant CI techniques
50. Working with CMMS – Preferably SAP
Skills
Mandatory
51. Proven Multi-skilled engineering experience – Mechanical & Electrical
52. Time-served apprenticeship
53. 5+ years hands-on experience of equipment in a food manufacturing environment preferably site services
54. Ability to read & understand technical manuals and engineering drawings
55. Ability to read and use both imperial and metric systems
56. Good PC skills.
Additional
57. Experience of high speed can handling equipment desirable
58. Experience of working in a site services environment desirable
59. Food Safety qualification desirable
60. Ability to interface with common PLC’s would be desirable
61. Health & Safety qualification desirable
62. Confined space experience
63. Knowledge of SCADA systems
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