About The Role
Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family! At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
* Enhanced pension scheme
* Private health scheme
* Employee discount scheme
* Experience annual pay reviews
* Profit related pay
* Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity
As a Continuous Improvement Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal part in improving equipment reliability, reducing waste, and driving efficiency across the site. Working closely with Engineering, Process, and Operations teams, you’ll influence ways of working, optimise manufacturing performance, and support the delivery of key KPIs.
This is an exciting role for someone who enjoys ownership, problem-solving, and making a tangible impact.
Key Responsibilities
* Analyse performance using daily/weekly/monthly KPIs and present improvement insights
* Lead and support root‑cause investigations into chronic and repeat downtime issues
* Prepare the site for internal/external food safety and engineering compliance audits
* Partner with the Process team to validate and optimise equipment operation
* Support development of robust URS documentation for new processes
* Identify and deliver efficiency improvements that reduce cost, increase throughput or improve labour utilisation
The Ideal Candidate
We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:
* Strong engineering and fault‑finding experience in FMCG (ideally food)
* HNC/HND Electrical and Electronic engineering
* Confident decision‑making and problem‑solving abilities
* A proactive, can‑do attitude and strong work ethic
* Personal accountability for development aligned to business needs
* Strong CMMS experience
We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.
Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!
About Us
We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.
At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.
Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.
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