Shift Engineer

We are looking for a Shift Engineer to join our Engineering team, providing electrical and mechanical support across our manufacturing operation. You'll be responsible for maintaining production equipment, responding to breakdowns, carrying out planned preventative maintenance, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives to maximise plant reliability and efficiency.

Working closely with Production and Operations teams, you'll play a key role in minimising downtime, improving performance, and ensuring all engineering activities are carried out safely and in line with food safety and quality standards.

Shift pattern: 4-on-4-off Days & Nights (6am-6pm / 6pm-6am

• To carry out planned predictive and re-active maintenance of process, packaging and auxiliary equipment
• To carry out workshop duties such as machine repairs and component manufacture 
• To retrain in new methodology, technology and engineering techniques as the business needs arise
• To train others in the plant, buildings and auxiliary equipment used on site
• To respond to machine & auxiliary failures
• Troubleshooting and fault finding on a range of electrical and mechanical plant equipment, packing machinery and site services.
• Installation, commissioning and repair of all plant and facilities
• To assist the Manufacturing Department with line adjustments, changeovers and breakdowns
• Responsible for improvements and reduction of downtime through increased efficiencies through your own ideas and input
• To take an active role in the Health and Safety requirements on site on behalf of the Engineering Department 
• To be able to work unsupervised when tasked to do so and to organise the work of others in response to the site needs
• Work alongside and support the activities of all engineering contractors when they are on site
• Produce and maintain documents relating to the administration of all engineering tasks
• The job holder is required to do all tasks considered as relevant by their line manager
• Responsible for Food Safety, Quality and Legality

• A qualified engineer, to HNC and/or NVQ Level 3 standard in an electrical, mechanical or multiskilled discipline.
• Hands on, multi-skilled experience on automated machines within a continuous manufacturing environment, ideally food manufacturing
• Working experience of integrated systems.
• Working experience of Automatic Packaging and Palletisation systems
• Some knowledge of AC and/or servo drive systems.
• Safety-focussed
• Team worker with the ability to work under own initiative
• The use of own initiative and judgment in identifying and correcting all stoppages and breakdowns to production plant, equipment and services 
• The use of own initiative with some independent action to prioritise engineering problems in the absence of the Asset Lead Engineer / Shift Manager

• Subsidised Canteen
• Subsidised Staff Shop
• Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free On-site Parking
• Recognition Scheme