About Princes
The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France, and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.
Role Description
Key responsibilities include safely maintaining and operating the effluent treatment plant, steam raising plant, and ensuring an unfettered supply of other site utilities to the manufacturing environment, ensuring the site operates within its environmental consent limits. This role also includes duties regarding the maintenance of general building services and fabric, yard areas, and the Energy Centre. Timely response to plant breakdowns and planned maintenance is required, with all work formally recorded and handed over to the oncoming team.
Working on shifts, rotating nights and days, reporting to the Site Services Engineering Manager, this role is part of a team responsible for proactively managing asset care to ensure that equipment performance is optimized. The role contributes positively to planning and executing all asset care activity on shift.
Plays a proactive role in the asset care element of the Engineering function on shift, to help the site achieve optimal operational efficiency at lowest cost through the delivery of targets against the strategic objectives of the Group Supply function:
1. Quality
2. Cost
3. Delivery
4. Safety
5. People
Work closely with the Shift Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality leaders, and peer groups and Site Asset Care Planner to support the delivery of an agreed Group Asset Care Strategy for the site.
Principal Responsibilities
Safety, Quality, Hygiene
* Ensure that when carrying out all duties, regard to own safety and that of others is always taken into account.
* Strict adherence to all H&S work policies e.g. Lock out and Tag (Isolation of all energy sources when undertaking any work) and Use of the “Permit to Work/Enter” system.
* Ensure purchased items conform with business, legislative, moral, and European directive requirements.
* Personally demonstrate safe behaviour and take responsibility for the management of health & safety of engineering staff and contractors.
* Carry out duties ensuring the site achieves and maintains required GMP standards.
* Ensure all work conforms to statutory & safety requirements.
* Ensure that risk assessments are completed and actioned.
* Support a culture that enhances behavioural awareness to reduce accidents and near misses.
* Reduce customer complaints and wastage through effective maintenance and continuous improvement.
Operations Management
* With Team Leader establish clear objectives and priorities to enable manufacturing to meet operational targets.
* Carry out site maintenance activities and ensure GMP standards are reached.
* Responsible for recording work carried out with regards to breakdowns, repairs, and modifications.
* Responsible for monitoring, updating and improving the planned maintenance system.
* Updating of plant parameters/set points as per site procedures.
* Ensure that plant and equipment perform to manufacture product efficiently to high-quality standards.
* Assist with training and support other departments in the general running of the factory.
* Undertake the training of others as required.
* Identify own training needs and with manager agree a time plan for achieving this.
Continuous Improvement
* Contribute to and help implement continuous improvement, to enhance quality, safety, efficiency, and waste reduction.
Communication
* Communicate as required with Planning, Manufacturing and all of site to ensure activities are implemented on time, in full, within budget.
* Communicate daily with manager to ensure planned maintenance, engineering, and production priorities are considered.
* Communicate as required with Engineering Stores to ensure that spares are available for planned and breakdown maintenance.
* Ensuring that good quality (“End of Shift” & “Start of Shift”) briefings take place between shift engineers.
Role Requirements
* Effective communication.
* Engineering activities in a food manufacturing environment.
* Knowledge of Steam raising boiler equipment.
* Knowledge of how pneumatic systems work.
* Knowledge of how electrical distribution systems work.
* Knowledge of soft water systems.
* Advanced mechanical and electrical diagnostic skills.
* Demonstrable knowledge of relevant CI techniques.
* Working with CMMS – Preferably SAP.
* Proven Multi-skilled engineering experience – Mechanical & Electrical.
* Time-served apprenticeship.
* 5+ years hands-on experience of equipment in a food manufacturing environment preferably site services.
* Ability to read & understand technical manuals and engineering drawings.
* Ability to read and use both imperial and metric systems.
* To maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.
At Princes we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates (including application). Please let us know as soon as possible of any additional support or reasonable adjustments you require through the recruitment process by emailing Recruitment@princes.co.uk
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