Maintenance Engineer

Business Area: Nestle UK

Location: York

Circa £50,000 depending on experience + potential bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!

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Position Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join the team at our Confectionery Factory in York. The team's short term and long-term goals include introducing a long-term maintenance strategy and continually developing it. Increasing asset intensity and reducing stops, working towards being the best maintenance team in the UK.

The Maintenance Engineer Role is a specialist role within the engineering management team. Nestlé York Factory in North Yorkshire is the home of the iconic confectionary brands; KitKat, Aero and Yorkie amongst several other well‑known brands such as Polo and Buttons. These are produced through controlled process plant and automated filling and packaging lines.

Your Impact

As the Maintenance Engineer your key objectives will be to identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant performance. Using Nestlé’s factory systems, you will analyse data to identify unreliable equipment and strive to improve reliability through continuous improvement projects, implementation of TPM stream methodologies and root cause analysis. Across the departmental assets you will implement the factory maintenance strategy.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Implementation of the area’s MWG (maintenance working group) plan and participate in line improvements across the manufacturing facility
• Participate in maintenance routines and support the implementation of maintenance standards, focusing on high-quality execution
• Drive, coach, and own departmental root cause analysis to reduce stoppages and recurrence
• Adhere to all Good Manufacturing Practice standards in respect of plant, tools and environment
• Support and challenge your colleagues to maintain all company standards
• Ensure compliance with the Nestlé quality policy particularly engineering change management and line release
• Become a specialist in PM stream methodologies and implement across all machines in the department
• Play a key role in TPM expansion throughout the factory by coaching and mentoring technicians, craft, apprentices, and operators to enable them to become autonomous
• Become the specialist knowledge holder for process specific equipment
• Support 14 indirect reports

You will report directly to the Asset Maintenance Manager working closely with the maintenance planners and maintenance technicians to implement a strategy and robust maintenance plan for assets throughout the factory to increase reliability and improve asset intensity.

Ingredients for Success

• Relevant engineering qualification (NVQ Level 3 Qualifications in Engineering Maintenance or equivalent).
• HNC, HND and/or BEng Degree desirable
• SAP knowledge evidencing the ability to maintain maintenance plans and schedules
• Proven track record working with automated processes and PLC’s
• Experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment, preferably within the food/fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry
• Knowledge of asset maintenance
• Ability to coach across all levels and work on own initiative

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply. If there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the application process, please let us know.

We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity, our people make up a number of Colleague Networks who represent different experiences and communities who hold us accountable in creating a sense of belonging for all, and our values create the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution you bring.

We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!