Multi-Skilled Engineer
Proud to drive innovation and quality
Salary: £42,879 per annum
Location: Bo’Ness, Falkirk
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Days / Hours: 05.30-17.30 / 17.30-05.30, 4 on 4 off rotating days and nights shift.
Benefits Package:
25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
Pension
Life Insurance
Flexible benefits package
Onsite Staff Shop
£1,000 Refer a friend bonus
About Us
Our Bakkavor business in Bo’ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers. To give a feel for the scale of manufacturing in Bo’ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.
Our production lines are non-stop, 24/7. Whether you’ve an electrical or mechanical bias, you’ll provide a full maintenance engineering service to the business. You’ll act fast, find solutions and make sure our equipment is always 100% available and reliable. Resulting in safe and efficient production on time, every time.
We’re proud to offer you a career with great prospects. To offer you the opportunity to join our multinational organisation as a talented Multi-Skilled Shift Engineer. And to provide the support you need to develop, diversify, and create a career you can be proud of too.
The Role
Bakkavor Salads Bo’Ness is looking to recruit a Qualified Multi-skilled Engineer to join their motivated team of engineers, this is a great opportunity to become part of the Bakkavor Group.
We’re looking for experienced engineers who are keen to drive and develop their own career. You’ll need to be familiar with all statutory health, safety, and environmental guidelines. be a strong team player, and have the confidence to carry out inspections, manage contractors and identify opportunities for operational and self-improvement.
You will work as part of a team of 20 – 24 Engineers and Engineering Managers; where you will work on Pre-Planned Maintenance projects as well as any ad-hoc repairs our complex production machinery requires. You will also have the potential opportunity to work on project work alongside external contractors as site machinery is replaced and updated.
On our site you will have the opportunity to work on conveyor systems, metal-detectors, industrial cooking equipment, chillers and more. We have a number of different PLC driven systems with a bias towards Mitsubishi, but experience of fault finding across any PLC’s is welcome.
In this busy and exciting role, you will utilise both mechanical and electrical engineering expertise to maintain and enhance the performance of plant and equipment.
Another key aspect of this role will be to assist with the development of production staff, enabling them to deliver their first line maintenance objectives - identifying and developing improvement opportunities as you go.
In return for your hard work and commitment, we’ll give you the development and support to take your career as far as you can, or as far as you want to go, within our large multinational company.
Accountabilities
In this busy and hands-on role, you will be accountable for:
- Strong electrical and mechanical skills are key to this role.
- Respond to breakdowns of food and drink processing and packaging assets. Conduct reactive maintenance or corrective actions to resolve deviation.
- Identify faults (electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatics) on food and drink processing and packaging assets, action as required.
- Conduct planned maintenance of food and drink processing and packaging assets.
- Manufacture and repair component parts for food and drink processing and packaging assets.
- Lead or support food and drink operational teams with machinery change overs and set ups.
- Ensure accurate and timely records are entered and recorded of all work carried out, root causes of failures identified and provide traceability of spares and consumables used for accurate asset lifetime costs.
- Ensure engineering downtime is accurately logged, monitor repair times, and find new methods and procedures to reduce this.
- Ensure equipment instructions, manuals, electrical drawings, and mechanical drawings are updated in line with any modifications to provide accurate information.
- Provide engineering support to production to ensure effective performance of all equipment and measure OEE to track team performance.
- Liaise with contractors and specialists when required to support improvement activities.
- Train, develop and sign off nominated production staff to allow them to carry out first line maintenance to designated plant & equipment. Ensuring that all H&S procedures, engineering best practices are adhered to at all times supporting the TPM functions.
- To plan, control and implement agreed small projects to support continuous improvement.
- To maintain and develop appropriately equipment knowledge and engineering skills and to train other members of the team.
About you
In this role you will need to be:
- Self-sufficient and motivated to ensure that you meet deadlines whilst making sure engineering and technical integrity is maintained.
- Proactive, with a good work ethic taking ownership and pride in what you do.
- Have experience within an FMCG environment - this is key and ideally experience in Fabrication.
- Have the ability to work independently as well as in a team.
- Be able to build strong working relationships with colleagues within the department and other functions as appropriate.
What you can expect from us
When joining us you can expect a competitive salary, a strong benefits package and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.
Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to deliver outstanding quality, service, and value to our customers. We’re proud to be the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK. And we’re proud to rise to every challenge that comes our way.
Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.
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