Shift Engineer in Wakefield

Company Description: IPS (Part of the Culina Group) works with some of the best known brands and provides cost effective and innovative co-packing, co-filling and co-manufacturing solutions within the UK. At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired.

We are recruiting for an Electrical Engineer to join our Team at IPS Featherstone on a Full time and permanent position.

Job Description:

• Shift: Monday-Friday Rotating Shift.
• Salary: £42,000-£48,000 per annum.

To ensure the smooth day to day running of the technical function and ensure that company quality standards are adhered to. The main responsibilities of the role are detailed as follows, please note that this list is not exhaustive:

• Assisting the Production team where possible: Providing engineering solutions and assist in an operational capacity.
• Monitoring all machines and ancillary plant.
• Follow preventative maintenance and lubrication schedules.
• Repairs during production.
• Planned maintenance.
• Inspection outside production hours, some weekend overtime working will be required to suit the business needs.
• Ideally you may have worked with packaging machinery within FMCG environment with supporting college/technical qualifications in line with engineering experience to date.
• Familiar with maintaining packing equipment.
• Experience of pneumatics.
• Horizontal flow packers.
• Carton erectors.
• Gluing systems.
• Metal detectors / X-ray machinery.
• Check Weighers.
• Pallet wrapping m/c.
• Shrink wrapping.
• Various bespoke hand packing / labelling lines some with printers.

Qualifications:

• To carry out scheduled work to restore machines and site back to standard.
• To carry out change overs when required.
• Look for opportunities to continuously improve machine performance.
• To follow set procedures and guidelines with respect to: Food safety, Hygiene, Health and Safety, Lock off etc.
• To assist in colleague training and development when required.
• To ensure that best work practices and housekeeping are adhered to.
• Drive own personal development through training and work based experience.
• To undertake such other duties as may be required from time to time, that reasonably fall within the scope and grade of the post.

Additional Information:

As part of our drive to make IPS a great place to work, we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers. Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives. Our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

• Competitive annual leave.
• Pension scheme – We want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 4% employee and 4% employer.
• Life Assurance - x2 your annual salary.
• Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year.
• Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses.
• Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the Month and Year, special recognition and long service awards.
• Everyday discounts - Via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings.

If you meet the requirements for the above role and are looking for your next career opportunity, please apply now and become a part of our #WinningTeam.