Overview of role
Position: Packaging Maintenance Engineer – Days
Location: Allied Bakeries Stoke
Salary: £43,500 + overtime
There is currently a fantastic opportunity for a Mechanically biased maintenance engineer to join our team at Allied Bakeries Stockport. The successful candidate will be responsible for carrying out maintenance, corrective work and improvement activities across all of our bakery packaging lines, which includes equipment such as Bagging machines, Slicers, Flow wrappers, Bag Sealers, Checkweighers, Metal detectors and Conveyor systems. Preventative maintenance and continuous improvement work will play a large part of the role as well as some reactive work carrying out fault diagnosis and rectification. As part of the days based Engineering team you will also help to coach and mentor our engineering apprentices as they progress through their apprenticeship. The working pattern is Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week, but a degree of flexibility is required to meet our customer needs.
Key Accountabilities
Safety always comes first at Allied Bakeries, so we are looking for someone to lead by example in ensuring that Health and Safety is our number one priority, and someone who is able to engage others to think and behave safely at all times.
The successful candidate will provide Engineering support and expertise in the maintenance of capital packaging equipment within a fast-paced industrial bakery environment, to meet the needs of the business and to generate continuous improvements in the cost and quality of engineering performance. Development and improvement of the PPM regime in the packaging arena on our key assets will be one of the opportunities that the right candidate will take ownership of and improve reliability.
Key duties will include:
* Carry out all planned maintenance work on packaging lines. This can vary from machine fault finding to modifying a piece of equipment to run more efficiently.
* Create maintenance reports on equipment using the company EAM (CMMS) software.
* Complete planned maintenance check sheets and provide recommendations for any repairs or improvements.
* Escalate any major plant or safety issues as and when appropriate.
* Plan and implement continuous improvement projects to improve the plant KPI figures (Breakdown, Damage, Safety, Quality)
* Attend plant breakdowns as and when required as the job demands.
* Work closely with apprentices to coach and develop their knowledge and skills.
Plus, any other duties which reasonably correspond to the general character of the role. The above list of accountabilities is not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake duties as may be reasonably expected.
The Right Person
* The successful candidate must have served a recognized craft level apprenticeship in Engineering and have experience of packaging equipment within an FMCG or similar fast-paced industry including flow wrappers, slicers, baggers, bag sealers and conveyor systems.
* Strong mechanical maintenance engineer, ideally multi-skilled mechanically biased but not essential.
* Proficient at reading and interpreting mechanical schematics and pneumatic control diagrams.
* It is essential you are a team player and a good communicator and are able to remain calm and focused when working under pressure.
* Able to work well on your own and use your time effectively to ensure scheduled work is completed in the allocated time.