Position Snapshot – external advert
Business area: Nestle Beverage
Job Title: Electrical day shift technician
Location: Dalston, Cumbria
Salary: £36,200 + potential bonus + other fantastic benefits
Although this is a full-time permanent opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.
Position Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Electrical day shift technician, to join our team based at our Beverage factory in Dalston. You will support the factory in ensuring timely and efficient completion of maintenance and compliance-driven tasks and management of a small industrial services team who support the business across the whole site.
Nestlé Dalston Factory in Cumbria is the European Centre for cappuccino and creamers producing a range of beverage products. These are produced through a highly automated PLC controlled process plant and automated filling and packing lines. It is continually developing and expanding leading brands such as Nescafé, Aero Hot Chocolate and Coffeemate. The factory is moving forward with continuous improvement principles and actively developing Lean/TPM processes so it’s an exciting time to be involved.
Manufacturing in Nestlé is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place whilst driving losses from our business in order to maximise efficiency & productivity.
A day in the life of…an Electrical day shift technician
As an electrical day shift technician your primary role will be completing planned maintenance activities as a preventative measure to reduce breakdowns and improve line performance and ensure electrical compliance. Whilst the successful candidate will require an electrical bias, they will also be required to support the mechanical day shift technicians with their activities.
- The factory is moving forward with continuous improvement principles and actively developing TPM processes so it’s an exciting time to be involved, and it is expected that you will play a key part in the move from reactive to proactive maintenance.
- Electrical planned maintenance will involve completing panel testing, confirming safety circuits and remedial actions to rectify issues found
- Planned maintenance will often involve inspecting parts and identifying signs that premature failure may be imminent, such as wear, impact damage and degradation of seals etc. so as to maximise line performance by reducing breakdowns and deterioration. You will be working to optimise maintenance of machinery and assets, by feeding back necessary improvements to the frequency and content of the maintenance activities.
- Whilst the majority of the work in the role will be planned there may be occasions on which you are required to respond to breakdowns within the plant, working with shift technicians and operators to help diagnose faults.
- Driving the use of break down analysis to continuously improve asset intensity.
- Day shift technicians are required to have a problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset to find the root cause of failures and put in preventative measures to prevent reoccurrence of repeat failures.
- You will be required to record all work activities to a detailed level for the purposes of looking after all aspects of cost, efficiency, quality and maintenance activities.
- Contributing to the upkeep and improvement of all relevant technical documentation.
- Raising purchase orders where required, liaising with the Maintenance co-ordinator to ensure that appropriate stock levels are maintained within budgetary constraints.
- Support maintenance engineers to complete remedial actions from Compliance audits.
- Ensuring adherence to all health and safety as well as hygiene and food safety standards whilst conducting maintenance and repair activities.
- Coaching apprentices, operators and other team members to improve their knowledge and performance
What will make you successful?
The successful candidate will have previous experience working within a FMCG environment and be able to demonstrate engineering knowledge across maintenance, industrial services and automation.
You’ll also;
- Qualified to NVQ level 3/City & Guilds with Electrical Bias or equivalent time served apprenticeship.
- Will have completed a time served apprenticeship.
- Will have a hands-on, practical approach to their work, along with a great can-do attitude.
- Will have the ability to deliver compliance in safety, quality, cost and delivery.
- Will have strong fault-finding skills and proven experience ideally in a high-speed production line environment.
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 bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.
Job advert posting date: 19/04/2023
Job advert closing date: 03/05/2023
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.
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