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Business Unit: Cereal Partners Worldwide
Job Title: Electrical & Automation Engineer
Location: Bromborough Factory
Monday – Friday (in this role you will be required to be on call)
Salary: Circa £51,500 depending on experience + potential bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!
Championing diversity and inclusion is important to us; when we embrace different perspectives 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.
At Cereal Partners, we are proud to provide equality of opportunity that supports employees to effectively blend their work life and commitments through hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
Position Summary
We are looking for an Electrical & Automation Engineer, based at our Factory in Bromborough. At Cereal Partners UK, we have established ourselves as one of the largest cereal manufacturers in the UK, making many well-loved brands with a long heritage. We are always striving for a new way to develop and market better products, helping to enhance the lifestyle of consumers and stay on top in the highly competitive cereal aisle.
A day in the life of an Electrical and Automation Engineer
We’re looking for someone to provide Electrical & Automation support to the factory engineering team. You will be responsible for supporting OMP activities to reduce unplanned stops, machinery safety, automation projects, and process improvements.
Other key day-to-day activities will be:
* Ensure process & equipment safety for people, products, and environment and exhibit a zero-tolerance approach to unsafe situations. Participate in the implementation of engineering tools at site level (i.e. NSAT, NET, AMM, etc.) and in the M&I activities in the factory.
* Ensure E&A installations comply with market and corporate safety, health, environment, product safety, and product quality standards. Ensures that the key MES-E&A documentation is up to date and in place.
* Participate in Capital Investments projects in the factory, ensuring that the technical solution follows the required standards and is delivered with the expected quality, on time and in budget.
* Provide a site-wide support function to production and engineering, utilizing analytical tools to improve plant reliability in helping achieve plant objectives and maximize efficiency and minimize total cost.
* Assist with root-cause analysis, implementing robust countermeasures, and supporting first line operator development, TPM, center lining, and SMED activities.
* Coach and mentor the maintenance team members to develop their automation and electrical capabilities.
* Play a key role in the continuous improvement of our factories through mastering the process and product characteristics. Implement performance improvement projects as identified by the teams.
* Implement SCADA/MES solution aligned with the corporate strategy and the local factory requirements.
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 and have strong service orientation amongst internal stakeholders with lots of proactive initiative and attention to detail.
Other key attributes we are looking for are:
* Experience required in Electricity, Process Control, Loop Tuning, Instrumentation, and PLC/HMI programming.
* Minimum Level 4 Electrical or Automation engineering qualification or equivalent.
* Experience in SCADA Systems, IO servers, HMI, Historians, and SQL databases would be advantageous.
* Ability to work with Windows Server 2016/2019 environment and Windows 10 clients.
* Exposure to TPM, preventive maintenance planning and/or maintenance execution desired but not required.
What You Need 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, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme, and a real focus on personal development and growth.
The closing date for this role is 13 March 2025. 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.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Food and Beverage Services
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