Multi-Skilled Engineer
Description
The Role
A fantastic opportunity for an experienced, Multi-Skilled Engineer to join our busy production and site engineering department.
The engineering team at Barfoots is pivotal to our success. Working closely with production to ensure minimum downtime, the role involves maintaining and improving the production plant, services, and facilities through pre-planned and reactive maintenance. With either a mechanical or electrical bias, candidates must have proven experience in a similar environment, attending to machinery breakdowns, fault diagnosis, and establishing root cause analysis in a busy, dynamic processing or FMCG environment. Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential, as candidates will work collaboratively within the engineering team, providing support and investigating means of improving plant productivity and efficiency while participating in continuous improvement projects.
This is a day shift-based role. 4 days on, 4 days off.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
* General mechanical/electrical engineering and routine maintenance tasks
* Attend to and rectify factory machinery breakdowns, utilising best practices for health & safety and hygiene
* Fault diagnosis and root cause analysis
* Ensure maximum equipment uptime and availability
* Follow and improve upon month-on-month PPM schedules
* Be involved in both electrical and mechanical reactive and proactive maintenance
* Maintain accurate records for all activity and spares used/requested
* Ensure equipment is maintained to a high standard
Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience
* Time-served apprenticeship or equivalent in either Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
* Qualified to degree level or equivalent qualification
* Capable of quickly identifying and efficiently resolving mechanical and/or electrical faults
* Effective communication skills
* Ability to prioritise workload and use own initiative
* Troubleshooting electrical control panels - an advantage
Desirable Skills/Experience:
* Capable of working on inverters, PLC systems
* Carry out effective RCAs
* Develop effective PPMs
* Experience of working within FMCG / Fresh food manufacturing
Benefits
Why Work for Barfoots?
* Investors In People Silver Award status
* Company pension scheme
* Life Assurance
* Employee Assistance Program
* Benefits Platform
* Development opportunities
* Discounted leisure membership
* Discounted vegetable box scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Free onsite parking
* Approved training centre for Highfield qualifications
* Rapidly growing company
* Committed to Sustainability
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