At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain and troubleshoot equipment in a dynamic food manufacturing environment.
- Company: Join Kerry, a global leader in taste and nutrition.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days annual leave, competitive salary, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Work in a supportive team focused on safety and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on food production while enhancing your technical skills.
- Qualifications: Trade or degree qualified in Electrical with multi-skilled capabilities.
The predicted salary is between 36000 - 44000 £ per year.
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Technician to join the team at our Hartlepool site. The focus of this role is maintaining the equipment and systems within the plant, performing emergency response support to operations for all equipment issues, minimising downtime and waste. You will also carry out planned maintenance tasks to prevent failures of equipment during operation and bring forward improved maintenance suggestions and/or improvement initiatives to increase reliability of equipment and where possible to increase availability, improve quality and/or efficiency while at all times ensuring safety systems are maintained or improved.
This is a dayshift 8 hour shift role. Ensuring all works undertaken during maintenance activities performed do not breach the appropriate health and safety standards and where necessary will assist others and/or report safety breaches. Responsible for ensuring an up-to-date knowledge of Kerry policies, regional, national and local legislative requirements necessary in performing the tasks associated with the role of maintenance engineer.
Participating in process and equipment risk assessments and HACCP studies as necessary. Lead or assist in the troubleshooting, repairs and maintenance of electro-mechanical food manufacturing equipment or processes containing pneumatic, hydraulic, instrumentation, PLC and/or SCADA systems. Lead or assist in the troubleshooting, repairs and maintenance of facilities plant and services, including but not limited to compressed air, refrigeration and steam.
Being observant and work off your own initiative when a fault is detected and to take decisive action to effect immediate repair or seek further assistance or support. Providing recommendations for improvement to the maintenance plans and/or equipment to eliminate downtime and waste, improving overall plant efficiency. Work with equipment suppliers or contractors on new equipment and installations and modifications as requested.
Update the maintenance management system (SAP PM or other), record all works performed, stores transactions made and all changes/modifications made to equipment/systems. Maintain and report updates and changes to process control and/or documentation including drawings, programs, I/O lists, and databases. Participate in process and equipment risk assessments when requested to optimise engineering design, hygienic design, personnel safety, environmental and quality compliance.
Trade or degree qualified - Electrical with Multi-skilled/cross-skilled capability to include mechanical. Strong knowledge & experience of manufacturing electro/mechanical automated equipment & processes including pneumatic, hydraulic and instrumentation-controlled systems. Demonstrate capability on troubleshooting electrical & instrumentation systems safely. Planned maintenance knowledge & understanding. LV systems, direct drives, inverter drives, soft starts, instrumentation, PLC/automated systems mechanical & fluid drive processes and systems and lubrication systems.
25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays).
Maintenance Shift Fitter in Hartlepool employer: Kerry Group
Kerry is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment at our Runcorn facility where safety and collaboration are paramount. As a Maintenance Engineer, you will enjoy a competitive salary, generous benefits including 25 days annual leave, and unmatched opportunities for professional growth within a supportive team dedicated to continuous improvement and innovation in the food and nutrition industry.
