Multi-Skilled Engineer

Our client, a leading food manufacturer, are currently seeking a talented Multi Skilled Engineer to join their growing team.

Earlies and Lates - rotating

The Role

As a key member of the Engineering Team, your primary accountability is to provide safe and highly reliable equipment to manufacturing colleagues, achieved through a healthy balance of hands-on maintenance competence, equipment knowledge, analysis of equipment performance and strong communication skill. Specifically, you will:

• Execute hands-on planned and unplanned maintenance activities to agreed standards, always ensuring safe working.
• Ensure assets are ready to produce products that are of an excellent quality, despatched on time in full to the satisfaction of our customers
• Ensure a robust and clearly communicated safe system of work is applied for all activities that you undertake properly risk assessed
• Coach, train and give understanding to production colleagues to achieve continual improvements in equipment knowledge/performance
• Act with integrity at all times to build a culture of professional engineering and proactive equipment-focussed continuous improvement skills

Required skills, qualifications and experience:

• Hands-On Engineering Experience, preferably through recognised time-served apprenticeship within food manufacturing
  • Technical qualifications and competence in mechanical/electrical at a minimum NVQ Level 3
  • BTEC Engineering certificate/equivalent qualification
  • Broad Knowledge of Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Mechanical, Electrical & PLC/Inverter Assets
  • Skills and capability to logically diagnose and fault find on a variety of equipment/situations
• Strong experience in ensuring safe working and safe systems of work are utilised and followed
  • • Experience of risk assessing maintenance activity and controlling safe working practices
    • Experience of working on high hazard equipment & competent in undertaking safe isolation
• Strong evidence of good interpersonal, communications and customer engagement skills
  • • Specific experience of clarifying priorities to customers in a busy environment
    • Proven ability to get the best from a diverse team through a calm and clear approach
    • Ability to engage positively with production to ensure equipment release for maintenance
• Experience and knowledge of Lean and Asset Care Excellence techniques particularly root cause

Knowledge and Experience

• ?18th Edition or equivalent Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• A clear and strong idea of how to drive continuous improvement across the factory.
• Must be proactive to complete scheduled work plans, start-up checks etc. in a timely manner.
• Ability to challenge others in a professional and constructive manner.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Organisation skills with a clean as you go approach.
• Safety first awareness.
• Resilient and effective execution.
• Working with colleagues to do what's best for the company.

Skills

• Good communication skills are paramount to this role
• Organised and assertive
• Able to use their own initiative
• Self-motivated and able to develop an excellent knowledge of products

Hours: 5.30am 2pm and 7.30pm to close (They roughly work 8-hour shifts)

Over time available on Saturday mornings time and half

Please get in touch for more information or send in your CV to apply for this fantastic opportunity today!