Company:
The Oval Partnership
Location: Langport
Closing Date: 24/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Our client, a leading food manufacturer, are currently seeking a talented Multi Skilled Engineer to join their growing team.
Earlies and Lates - rotating
The Role
As a key member of the Engineering Team, your primary accountability is to provide safe and highly reliable equipment to manufacturing colleagues, achieved through a healthy balance of hands-on maintenance competence, equipment knowledge, analysis of equipment performance and strong communication skill. Specifically, you will:
Execute hands-on planned and unplanned maintenance activities to agreed standards, always ensuring safe working.
Ensure assets are ready to produce products that are of an excellent quality, despatched on time in full to the satisfaction of our customers
Ensure a robust and clearly communicated safe system of work is applied for all activities that you undertake properly risk assessed
Coach, train and give understanding to production colleagues to achieve continual improvements in equipment knowledge/performance
Act with integrity at all times to build a culture of professional engineering and proactive equipment-focussed continuous improvement skills
Required skills, qualifications and experience:
Hands-On Engineering Experience, preferably through recognised time-served apprenticeship within food manufacturing Technical qualifications and competence in mechanical/electrical at a minimum NVQ Level 3
BTEC Engineering certificate/equivalent qualification
Broad Knowledge of Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Mechanical, Electrical & PLC/Inverter Assets
Skills and capability to logically diagnose and fault find on a variety of equipment/situations
Strong experience in ensuring safe working and safe systems of work are utilised and followed Experience of risk assessing maintenance activity and controlling safe working practices
Experience of working on high hazard equipment & competent in undertaking safe isolation
Strong evidence of good interpersonal, communications and customer engagement skills Specific experience of clarifying priorities to customers in a busy environment
Proven ability to get the best from a diverse team through a calm and clear approach
Ability to engage positively with production to ensure equipment release for maintenance
Experience and knowledge of Lean and Asset Care Excellence techniques particularly root cause
Knowledge and Experience
? 18th Edition or equivalent Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
A clear and strong idea of how to drive continuous improvement across the factory.
Must be proactive to complete scheduled work plans, start-up checks etc. in a timely manner.
Ability to challenge others in a professional and constructive manner.
Excellent communication skills.
Organisation skills with a clean as you go approach.
Safety first awareness.
Resilient and effective execution.
Working with colleagues to do what's best for the company.
Skills
Good communication skills are paramount to this role
Organised and assertive
Able to use their own initiative
Self-motivated and able to develop an excellent knowledge of products
Hours: 5.30am 2pm and 7.30pm to close (They roughly work 8-hour shifts)
Over time available on Saturday mornings time and half
Please get in touch for more information or send in your CV to apply for this fantastic opportunity today!
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