The Role
Hain Daniels are currently recruiting for a Reliability Engineer for Histon. In Histon, we manufacture a host of ambient sweetspreads and jellies for our grocery brands. These includes Hartley'sjams and jellies, Gale's honey, Rose's and Robertsons marmalade's.
Job Summary This role will be responsible for supporting the Holistic vision of the engineering function for the Histon manufacturing site. The core focus for this role is to ensure asset maintenance is completed to the highest standard ensuring machine availability is maximised and all compliance standards are met. This includes the management and timely implementation of permanent corrective actions against all causes of failure and ensuring equipment life is maximised while achieving optimum value for money. Works under the responsibility of this position will also include a range of projects, process improvement, equipment repair, and maintenance including overhauls and installation of machines / equipment.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Demonstrate leadership in the area of health & safety.Ensures all engineering and maintenance activities on site exceed the appropriate health and safety standards.
2. To champion Root cause analysis and every day problem solving techniques to reduce and eliminate future failures (defect elimination), to manage and oversee action completion.
3. To lead the engineering team in the development and implementation of the site Engineering Planned Maintenance (PM) strategy.
4. To manage and oversee equipment overhaul programs, managing internal resource and external contractors.
5. To lead the engineering reliability development of planned maintenance schedules and develop robust relationships with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) to continually challenge schedules and develop effective future schedules.
6. To lead the definition and implementation of a predictive maintenance strategy by using modern maintenance practices to reduce the level of intrusive maintenance, through Condition Based Monitoring, Thermography and Oil analysis.
7. To lead the engineering team in the identification of daily maintenance type activities to manufacturing through operators and technical operators, for delivery through the autonomous maintenance team e.g. 5’s Cleaning, Lubrication and simple mechanical maintenance tasks.
8. To build robust relationships key with stakeholders, providing engagement, education and awareness for the Planned and Preventative Maintenance processes.
9. Oversee critical spare parts inventory holding ensuring it optimised to minimize equipment downtime at minimum inventory levels. Ensure that the inventory is secure, strategically located for end use, fit for purpose when issued and regularly reviewed against site requirements.
10. To lead the Engineering Reliability (RCM) in defining the critical assets and assess the critical spare parts listings for the equipment, whilst ensuring obsolesce programmes for spare parts are in place.
11. Design CBM (Condition Based Monitoring) together with transition schedule for internal integration at agreed date.
12. Management of all Key contractors integral to support site reliability.
13. Develop standardisation of parts used and develop part replacement programme which exists “within” lead times.
14. Responsible for ensuring that all Hain Daniels policies and standards are implemented and adhered to while ensuring regional, national and local legislative requirements are met by the site engineering function and any external services/contractors utilised by engineering.
15. Deliver the site maintenance asset care programme. Ensuring its effectiveness and efficient delivery measured through the use of standard KPIs.
16. Apply technical skills and ingenuity to the correction of equipment problems causing excessive production downtime and maintenance work as necessary.
17. Develop a plan and timeline to eliminate emergency repair work, and maximize planned and project work ensuring the preventative maintenance plan is delivered as scheduled.
18. Identify own training needs and with Manager agree a time plan for achieving this.
19. Co-ordinate contractor maintenance activities and ensure all safety and GMP standards are consistently met.
20. Undertake the training of others as required.
21. Responsible for monitoring, updating and improving the planned maintenance system (CMMS aspect).
22. Scope, Plan, Organise, communicate and deliver projects both CAPEX and OPEX delivering claimed business benefits
23. Effectively communicate and manage Suppliers & Contractors.
24. Contribute to and help implement continuous improvement, to enhance plant reliability, quality, safety, efficiency and waste reduction.
25. Attend daily area meeting with ops and engineering as per schedule.
26. Ensure that critical spares are available via Engineering Stores for planned and breakdown maintenance.
27. Communicate as required with Engineering, Planners, Manufacturing and site to ensure projects are implemented on time, in full, with least disruption and within budget.
What you will need for the role / what it will take:
Education:
Time served engineering apprenticeship.
Formal relevant engineering qualification.
IOSH/NEBOSH qualification preferred Experience:
Food Industry experience.
Demonstrable Contractor Management experience
Reliability and maintenance techniques experience / qualifications
Continuous improvement and root cause analysis experience / qualifications.
Key Capabilities
A positive attitude, open to change, a proactive approach and a passionate attitude to success.
A positive and flexible approach to ongoing training.
A result orientated individual with adherence to high standards and continuous improvement.
An excellent time manager with an adaptable and
flexible approach, being very responsive when
Operating at all levels within the organisation.
Conditions of the Role:
Histon based - Travel to other Hain Celestial Sites and relevant suppliers / OEM’s.
Flexible working hours will be required within this role.
What can we offer you?
28. Competitive salary / rate of pay
29. 25 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank
30. Option to purchase additional annual leave
31. A day off work to support our charity partners
32. Flexible working options
33. Pension
34. Medical benefit
35. And access to a HUB that offers many discounts from a range of suppliers and retailers
About Us
The Hain Daniels Group is one of the UK's leading food companies. We create food and drink products with natural goodness at their core. We're the business behind a host of household brands - Hartley's jams and jellies, Sun-Pat peanut butters, New Covent Garden Soup Co., Linda McCartney's meat free food, and Yorkshire Provender to name a few. Nearly half of our business is private label - we create quality freshly prepared fruit and juices, desserts, soups, sweet spreads and meat free products for our retail partners.
Our Vision
To make it easier for everyone to lead a healthier, balanced lifestyle. Without our great team of people, this vision couldn't be our reality.
Top Talent across the UK
Over our sites up and down the UK, we employ circa 1,200 people in roles within Production, Supply Chain, Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and through to our Finance, HR, IT and beyond. Each of our colleagues is vital to our continued success. That's why we target the best talent, and help to develop them through the ranks. In fact, almost a third of our vacancies were internal promotions and transfers last year.
Our Business behaviours
As a business we strive to promote from within and our underlying business behaviours really enable us to drive this strategic objective. We believe we can provide an opportunity for all individuals to grow and achieve with Hain Daniels through demonstrating core behaviours such as ambition & energy, collaborative working, honest communication, innovation, delivering excellent quality, embracing versatility and equality
If Hain Daniels sounds like the company you'd like to contribute your energy and enthusiasm towards, and come on an exciting journey with us, then we can't wait to hear from you!
Qualifications Benefits Not Specified