Line Performance Engineer
Nestlé Purina
Location: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire 4 days on 4 days off shift pattern, days and nights
Salary ranging from £46,903 - £52,635.00 depending on experience (including shift premium) + potential bonus and fantastic benefits
Position Summary
Are you currently a Maintenance, Shift or Reliability Engineer who is looking to share your skill-set in a role that offers an opportunity for you to shine? Are you keen to make your mark in your next career step? Then this could be the role you’re looking for.
We are now looking for Line Performance Engineers / Multi Skilled Shift Maintenance Engineer to help deliver the maintenance strategy for our Purina factory in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. This factory is in its prime with heavy capital investment on new lines and exciting equipment leading to new development opportunities!
At Purina PetCare, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier, and longer lives because we're pet owners too.
A day in the life of a Line Performance Engineer
This role is key for the factory; responsible for a defined set of production assets in terms of the engineering strategy to support in driving your area to world-class performance levels in safety, quality, cost, and service.
Other key responsibilities:
1. To maintain the basic condition of the machines within their line and perform improvement activities, as well as repairing breakdowns.
2. Run machines within your line while always being proactive and looking for faults.
3. Drive a safe culture and eliminate safety risks.
4. Ensure that all products are manufactured according to quality standards.
5. Empower and inspire people by supporting the line team and developing their capability.
6. Participate and support the Autonomous and Maintenance Working Groups to drive improvement through the implementation of inspections, abnormalities identification, centre lining, breakdown analysis, preventive and predictive maintenance.
7. Drive continuous excellence and continuous improvements in the key operational business processes throughout manufacturing.
What will make you successful
To be successful in this key role we expect you to ideally have experience working in a FMCG manufacturing maintenance environment, maybe as a Technician, Shift Engineer, or a Maintenance Engineer. Strong service orientation among internal stakeholders with lots of proactive initiative and passion for continuous improvement is also essential.
Other key attributes we are looking for are:
1. Minimum educated to apprenticeship level NVQ 3 or hold a recognised engineering qualification in both mechanical and electrical engineering.
2. Demonstrate mechanical comprehension & food safety/Food handling awareness.
3. Ability to understand and adhere to strict hygiene rules.
4. Experience in Planned Preventative asset Maintenance.
5. Experience in Root Cause Analysis tools/problem solving methodology.
6. Understanding of Lean manufacturing tools including TPM.
7. Demonstrates understanding of Continuous Improvement and cost awareness.
8. Data analysis and understanding of performance indicators.
9. Demonstrate that you are a real team player.
What we need you to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, pension scheme, and a real focus on personal development and growth. This position is a shift-based role and operates a 4 on 4 off approach including both day and night shift working.
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect. When we embrace diversity and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.
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