Job Purpose
The Engineer (Site Services) maintains and operates the effluent treatment and steam raising plants, ensuring site utilities and environmental compliance.
This role involves responding to breakdowns, performing planned maintenance, and managing general building services.
Working on rotating shifts, the engineer contributes to asset care, aiming for optimal operational efficiency and supporting the Group Asset Care Strategy by collaborating with various site teams and external contacts.
Responsibilities include proactive maintenance, root cause analysis, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement, while adhering to safety, quality, and hygiene standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure proactive response to maintenance and breakdowns on site ensuring continuity of production and services.
- Carry out maintenance activities, ensuring manufacturing team achieve maximum compliance to the production plan, by minimising engineering downtime.
- Openly share knowledge within team to increase the department flexibility.
- Improve the performance and efficiency of the existing plant through continuous improvement techniques.
- Communicate effectively and confidently to all levels of colleagues within Princes and maintain professional communication with clients, suppliers, contractors and customers outside the business.
- Ensure both verbal and written shift handovers are carried effectively.
- Maintain food safety, legal, integrity, authenticity and quality standards by adhering to associated policies and procedures.
Key Relationships
- Site
- Site Management Team
- Section Engineers across shifts (daily)
- Manufacturing Manager and Shift Coordinators
- Technicians and Manufacturing Team Members (daily)
- External
- Communicate with Suppliers and contractors (as required)
Principal Responsibilities (Safety, Quality, Hygiene)
- Ensure safety of own and others during all duties.
- Strict adherence to all H&S work policies such as Lock out and Tag and Permit to Work/Enter system.
- Ensure purchased items meet business, legislative, moral and European directive requirements.
- Personally demonstrate safe behaviour and take responsibility for the health & safety of engineering staff and contractors.
- Carry out duties ensuring the site achieves and maintains required GMP standards.
- Ensure all work conforms to statutory and safety requirements.
- Complete and action risk assessments.
- Support a culture that enhances behavioural awareness to reduce accidents and near misses.
- Reduce customer complaints and wastage through effective maintenance and continuous improvement.
Operations Management
- With Site Services Manager establish clear objectives and priorities to enable manufacturing to meet operational targets.
- Carry out site maintenance activities and ensure GMP standards are reached.
- Record work carried out with regards to breakdowns, repairs and modifications; take ownership to ensure follow‑up and closure of issues.
- Update plant parameters/set points as per site procedures.
- Ensure plant and equipment perform to manufacture product efficiently to high quality standards.
- Identify own training needs and with manager agree a time plan for achieving this.
Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to and help implement continuous improvement to enhance quality, safety, efficiency and waste reduction.
Communication
- Communicate as required with Planning, Manufacturing and all of site to ensure activities are implemented on time, in full, within budget.
- Communicate daily with manager to ensure planned maintenance, engineering and production priorities are considered.
- Communicate as required with Engineering Stores to ensure spares are available for planned and breakdown maintenance.
- Ensure good quality end of shift and start of shift briefings take place between shift engineers.
Role Requirements
Knowledge
- Effective communication.
- Engineering activities in a food manufacturing environment desirable.
- Knowledge of steam raising boiler equipment.
- BOAS Certification desirable but not essential.
- Knowledge of how pneumatic systems work desirable.
- Working knowledge of SAP desirable.
Skills
- Engineering experience desirable.
- Hands‑on experience of equipment in a manufacturing environment desirable.
- Ability to read and use both imperial and metric systems.
- Computer literate.
Additional
- Experience of working in a site services environment desirable.
- Food safety qualification desirable.
- Confined space experience desirable.
Benefits
- 22 days annual leave.
- 14.5% pension – 5% employee opt‑in / 9.5% employer.
- Flexible holiday option – buy 5 additional days.
- Enhanced family friendly policies.
- Critical illness cover.
- Learning & development opportunities.
Location and Work Details
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Wisbech
Business Area: Operations
Workplace Type: Onsite
