Maintenance Engineer/ Shift Engineer in Cambridge

When you join McCain, you'll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food. So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.

Benefits:

• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• Optional health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• 'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
• Great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future

Our Maintenance Engineers work as part of a multi-disciplined team carrying out first line maintenance tasks and improvements on equipment throughout the factory efficiently and effectively. You'll provide feedback on completed tasks into the engineering maintenance system to ensure equipment histories and costs are kept up to date and to enable follow up work to be identified and planned.

Reporting into the Shift Engineering Manager, you will also:

• Consider all implications when carrying out designated tasks to minimise wasted time and materials
• Have a "Fix it right, now" work ethic and use Root Cause Analysis to determine the underlying reasons behind problems and failures and act on the findings
• Be observant at all times when in the plant and report any deficiencies that cannot be rectified
• Provide and implement ideas to improve manufacturing, efficiency and equipment reliability
• Adhere to company policies and procedures at all times
• Work closely with your Line Manager to ensure the smooth execution of both day-to-day maintenance tasks and shutdown work
• Ensure the upkeep and reliability of all plant and equipment in your shifts designated area by feeding back requirements to your Line Manager
• Identify through knowledge and analysis, areas that will contribute to improved product quality or plant efficiency
• Support the driving improvements initiative on site, and understand and implement the basic principles of lean manufacturing

It's a given that you will have experience of working in a busy maintenance department, ideally within a food manufacturing department.

Qualifications:

• BTEC/ NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or equivalent (Essential)
• Time served apprenticeship in Engineering or similar industry (Essential)
• Multi-skilled qualification in additional disciplines (NVQ L2 / City & Guilds)
• Broad knowledge of modern maintenance techniques
• Wide ranging knowledge of engineering practical fundamentals
• Practical engineering experience

This is a shift based role working a combination of 12 hour shifts across days and nights to a set rota. You'll be based at our Whittlesey plant in Peterborough. With about 350 employees on site, we're one of our largest plants across the GB business. Our Whittlesey plant is where we make our famous French Fries as well as our chilled products, such as our Shake Shake Fries.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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