Engineering Chargehand in Saffron Walden

You\’ll be experienced in working within an Engineering team, ideally within a food manufacturing operation, with a working knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and health, safety, and food safety and a background and experience of mechanical and electrical engineering.

Qualifications

• Craft Apprenticeship in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering (essential)
• NVQ Electrical/Mechanical Level 3 or equivalent (essential)
• Demonstrable experience working in a maintenance/engineering department (essential)

Knowledge

• Health & Safety / Food Safety Best Practice (desirable)
• Quality Assurance Systems and Standards (desirable)

Skills

• Strong fault finding and diagnostic capabilities (essential)
• Understanding of PLC and SCADA systems would be beneficial (desirable)
• Demonstrable experience of building high performing teams, and has a collaborative, controlled and pro‑active approach

Shift Pattern. This role will be working a mix of day and night shift. You\’ll work 12-hour shifts and typically through 1 month be working 7 days and 7 nights, you\’ll have 2 long weekends off per month.

About McCain

At McCain, we\’re feeding the world: from French fries to smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people\’s lives. That\’s why we\’re dedicated to ensuring our core values – Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality – shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain! Why join the McCain family.

About the role

Together with a multi-disciplined team, the Engineering Chargehand is responsible for carrying out first line maintenance tasks and improvements on equipment throughout the factory efficiently and effectively to enable maintenance targets to be met. The role is also responsible for providing feedback on completed tasks and work requirements using the CMMS to ensure equipment histories and costs are up to date and to enable follow up work to be identified and planned.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Together with the Shift Engineering Manager, leading a team of multi-disciplined engineers (and contractors when necessary) to ensure designated tasks are completed efficiently and effectively to the highest standard.

Considering all implications when carrying out designated tasks and avoid unnecessary costs where possible by minimising purchases and through best utilisation of time and resources.

Having a \’right first time\’ work ethic and using root cause analysis to determine the underlying reasons behind problems and failures and act on the findings.

Being observant at all times when in the plant and investigating any deficiencies observed or reported to you; raising work orders for those that cannot be actioned immediately and feeding back on those that can.

Instil a Continuous Improvement mentality – providing and implementing ideas to improve manufacturing and mechanical efficiency and equipment reliability.

Working in liaison with other departments as required and providing support and assistance where possible.

Entering accurate, detailed feedback on all completed tasks into the CMMS on a daily basis.

Working closely with the Maintenance Planner to ensure the smooth execution of both day-to-day maintenance tasks and shutdown work.

Ensuring the upkeep and reliability of all plant and equipment in your designated area by feeding back requirements to the Planner/Supervisors.

Leadership Principles

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organisation. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success. We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success. We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together. We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

Location

You\’ll be based at our Whittlesey plant in Peterborough. If you\’ve spotted our three wind turbines, then you\’ll know where we are! With about 400 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.

Benefits

Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you\’ll be pleased to know we don\’t pay you in \’chips\’. For working hard, you\’ll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:

• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• Flexible holidays – where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Private medical cover
• 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
• Being part of a Global business offers great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5-year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.

EEO Statement

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. McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain\’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.