Mechanical Maintenance Engineer in Lancaster

We are seeking a highly motivated Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to join our dynamic team at Lancaster Mill. This role involves maintaining a large animal feed mill.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out maintenance activities as part of the wider engineering team.
• Perform fault finding, PPMs and repairs.
• Engage with other stakeholders within the operations business to ensure the smooth running of the plant whilst meeting all H&S, feed safety and environmental requirements.
• Ensure that you and other Engineers work safely and efficiently across all areas of the site, fully complying with company procedures and upholding the company's standards.
• Ensure all operating procedures, statutory requirements, and company policies are adhered to, including UFAS accreditation and other relevant assurance schemes.
• Work in accordance with the Permit to Work system, ensuring all maintenance activities are planned and executed with safety as the highest priority.
• Respond promptly to reactive maintenance requirements, expediting repairs in a safe and timely manner to minimise disruption to operations.
• Minimise plant downtime caused by mechanical failure through effective fault diagnosis, timely repair, and preventative maintenance.
• Carry out maintenance activities in line with the company's planned maintenance system and schedules, ensuring all plant and machinery are maintained to a standard that enables safe, efficient, and reliable production.
• Maintain appropriate levels of engineering spares, ensuring foreseeable interruptions to production are avoided.
• Participate in the site on-call maintenance rota, providing out-of-hours support when required.
• Participate in and support the planning and execution of planned maintenance shutdowns, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and to schedule.
• Ensure that all work areas are maintained in a clean, tidy, and safe condition at all times.
• Take a proactive approach to continuous professional development, maintaining and enhancing engineering skills and knowledge.
• Always adhere to Company and Group policies and procedures, including those relating to Safety, Health, and Environmental compliance.
• To ensure all relevant legislation and approved codes of practice are adhered to in respect of ongoing compliance, including but not limited to UFAS, FIAS & NOPS assurance schemes.

Qualifications

Essential

• Engineering experience within a bulk handling production environment.
• Responds positively to changing business priorities, and able to remain calm when under pressure.
• Have a proactive can-do attitude.
• Have a working knowledge of standard H&S practices (hot works, WAH, LOTO etc).
• Strong communications skills.
• Strong problem solving techniques, through innovative, logical and structured thinking.

Desirable

• Experience with maintenance software and other IT.
• Qualification to NVQ level 3 or City and Guilds standard in Engineering.

Benefits

Salary package includes:

• Annual salary reviews in September each year.
• A minimum of 25 days annual leave.
• Opportunity to work for a well-established family-owned business with ambitions for growth and innovation.

Health

• Health Assured: Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which offers counselling and health and wellbeing advice.
• Sick pay: Generous company sick pay entitlement.
• Health Cash Plan: A health cash plan allowing colleagues to claim back money spent on everyday health care such as optical, dental, physiotherapy and much more.

Lifestyle

• Staff Discount: Colleagues are eligible for a generous staff discount on selected products at our Country Stores.
• Cycle to work scheme: A salary sacrifice scheme saving you tax on the purchase of a new bicycle and associated equipment.
• Flexible life assurance and critical illness cover: Choose to increase the level of life assurance cover already provided to you by the company or add critical illness cover, all at preferential rates.
• My Savings Hub: Access to an exclusive member's discount website with over 3,500 brands where you can save money and earn cashback on spends from grocery shopping to holidays.
• Salary finance benefits: Savings schemes, preferential rate loans and wage advances all through payroll as well as tools for financial education.

Future

• Pension: Enrolment into the Company pension scheme after 3 months of employment.
• Training & Development: Role specific training and ongoing training and development opportunities identified through our annual appraisal process.