Shift Engineer

Deeside Cereals is proudly owned by the Weetabix Food Company. Our mission is to nourish the nation with better breakfasts that help them to live better lives, so we’ve made it our mission to delight consumers with great tasting, nutritious breakfasts produced with passion and excellence.

VALUES & CULTURE: These are the behaviours that can fast-track us to where we want to be. They focus on what makes us great and how we can win more in the future. We’re moving away from values as values imply you have to adopt a particular value set when you walk through our door, but we want you to embrace and be proud of your own values. We just want to set a clear framework for the way we work together, our ‘ways of working’ so we’re setting ourselves up to win together.

• Right Thing, Right Way
• We Own It
• Win Together
• Great Work at Pace
• Always Improving

PURPOSE OF ROLE: A Multiskilled Engineer with experience in an FMCG environment, able to carry out planned predictive and reactive maintenance of the plant equipment and facilities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To carry out planned predictive and reactive 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 and auxiliary failures.
• Troubleshooting and faultfinding 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.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES: The Company strives to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that decisions concerning recruitment, promotion, dismissal or any other aspect of employment will be based on the needs of the business and not any assumptions based on sex, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, married or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. This is an important commitment which all employees are expected to share.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• 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-focused.
• 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.

Benefits:

• A competitive salary which is reviewed annually.
• Access to the Company Bonus Scheme.
• A personalised Career Development Plan.
• Access to the company’s e-learning suite.
• Access to the company pension scheme.
• Life Assurance cover.
• Heavily-subsidised vending service in the Canteen.
• Access to the Company Staff Shop at discounted prices.
• A health surveillance medical every year (if required).
• Regular business updates.
• Free parking on site.