Electrical Technician

Our client comprises of two iconic baked goods brands with a strong history and heritage who have now merged to create one unique, integrated company. Owned by an FMCG giant who operates in more than 50 countries, with products sold in over 170 countries, represented by almost 38.000 employees worldwide, and a consolidated turnover of €12.7 billion (2020-21).

Role: Electrical Technician - Engineering

Shift pattern: 8hrs/day on a rotating shift of morning, afternoon, and night from 6-2pm, 2-10pm and 10pm.

This role will be to provide a timely and effective engineering service to their customer in production whilst ensuring safety, quality and hygiene standards are met.

Duties to include:

• Carry out planned maintenance activities as scheduled by the maintenance plan contained within the CMMS
• Attend and repair breakdowns as required, and report all actions carried out and any further actions required, via the CMMS
• Report in a comprehensive manner via the CMMS, all work activities carried out on a daily/shift basis
• Be proactive in preventing equipment failures and improving overall equipment performance by generating and implementing ideas and modifications
• Provide a service that meets agreed service levels, including minimising downtime and communicating effectively with relevant personnel
• Provide a service that meets food safety standards, whilst maintaining standards of housekeeping and personal hygiene
• Maintain and help improve health and safety standards and ensure that staff work in a safe environment by eliminating, minimising and controlling risks to themselves and others
• Cooperate with contractors and as far as is possible to ensure their adherence to site rules, health and safety and food safety standards
• Undertake training as required to further enhance individual’s skills and knowledge so that the level of support to the front line operations remains effective and efficient
• Train others so that they are able to carry out their expected work duties to the required standards
• Identify performance issues and implement appropriate and pragmatic solutions through the use of problem solving skills, tools and techniques
• Maximise the use of the labour and skills available by being flexible in terms of work allocation and scheduling within the team

Experience needed:

• Educated to HNC standard (or equivalent) or higher in electrical engineering

• Time served with electrical bias to NVQ level 3 (or equivalent)

• Post apprenticeship, preferably in a high speed, high volume manufacturing environment (Food environment preferable)

• A proven practitioner of preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, problem solving and continuous improvement skills

• Must have a proven ability in diagnostic fault finding under pressure of production

• Exposure to PLCs preferably Allen Bradley

• Must have proven experience in PLC Control systems, and PLC fault finding experience in AB PLC5, SLC500, Control Logix, Compact Logix, Factory Talk View, RS Networks (including Ethernet, DeviceNet communications)

• Familiarity with the use of PC equipment is essential

• Proven experience of working with the AB PowerFlex range of AC Inverters

• Familiar with TPM principles including 5S. Use of CMMS (computerised maintenance management systems) ideally SAP, but not essential