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Lead Engineer
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Salary: Up to £60,900 depending on experience
Location: Highbridge, TA9 4JR
Ways of Working: Site based
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off rotating days and nights / 06:00 – 18:00 – 18:00 – 06:00
Contract: Permanent
What we do.
We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. Our Bakkavor site in Highbridge, which is one of our four Desserts sites in the UK, specialises in Cheesecake and Tarts, working closely with our sister site in Devizes that specialise in baked goods.
About the role.
We’re looking for a Lead Engineer to maintain production assets to maximise efficiency through planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance. Support machinery setups, changeovers, and equipment installation or removal. Collaborate with teams to improve performance and drive continuous improvement.
Accountabilities:
Prepare for food and drink maintenance work.
Conduct planned maintenance of food and drink processing and packaging assets.
Conduct predictive maintenance of food and drink processing and packaging assets (condition-based monitoring).
Respond to breakdowns of food and drink processing and packaging assets. Conduct reactive maintenance or corrective actions to resolve deviation.
Identify faults (electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatics) on food and drink processing and packaging assets, action as required.
Contribute to continuous improvement projects to optimise food and drink assets or processes. For example, participate in failure investigations to ensure process effectiveness and to contribute to and implement practical engineering solutions for efficiency and profitability.
Contribute to technical performance reviews in collaboration with other functions and stakeholders.
Support maintenance and operational team members in developing engineering technical competence.
Point of contact at weekends and when the site Engineering Section Manager for Nights is on Holiday
About you.
Engineering apprenticeship (C&G / EAL NVQ Level 3 / 4 or OAL FDEM Diploma).
Current Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (C&G Level 3, achieve within 12 months).
Food Safety Qualification (Level 2, achieve within 12 months).
Application of Safety, Health and Environmental legislation and procedures.
Verify assets meet performance criteria after work.
Reading and adhering to site SOPs.
Fault finding: Electrical & / or Mechanical systems.
CMMS experience (achieve within 12 months).
Multi-skilled capability with electrical bias (achieve within 48 months).
Contractor control (achieve within 12 months).
Carry out actions from CMMS (achieve within 1 month).
Mechanical principals, safety and control systems.
Planning works and writing reports.
Knowledge of CMMS.
F&D assets, welding, machining, turning, hydraulic, pneumatic & thermodynamics systems and / or, electrical principals, motors, motor control circuits, motion control, encoders, PLCs, sensors.
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