Engineering Technician - Nights in Carlisle

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you. As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.

This is an opportunity for a highly responsible and confident individual to take on a highly visible role at our Carlisle site; providing full Technical Engineering support to the production function under the leadership of the Area Engineering Manager and working alongside the production team.

The role plays a vital part of our fast-paced manufacturing operations team in Carlisle! Your primary aim will be to understand and contribute to achieving the goals of the Factory by efficiently carrying out any assigned operations or tasks. We work effectively with others as part of a large team of varying levels of seniority who together possess all the skills to convert product on an hour-by-hour basis aligning with quality, safety and any other legislative requirements.

Occasionally, we may ask you to cover other Engineering Technicians when they are away from work, including those on different shifts. Additionally, stand in for chargehands and AEMs.

Primarily, to manufacture the company’s product to an agreed specification in a cost effective and safe manner. The company produces a variety of products to meet customer needs. The daily focus for everyone needs to be on achieving the daily requirements right first time, in a safe factory environment at an improved ongoing cost. Other responsibilities include:

• Train, assess competencies, mentor and support ATMs, Apprentices and Team Members with the development of engineering skills.
• As an engineering specialist input into team action plans & continuous improvement activities, especially ref OEE, Condition Based Monitoring (CBM), Tiered meetings, focused improvement and workplace organisation (5S).
• Accountability for the mechanical and electrical integrity of equipment by carrying out effective planned maintenance inspections as per plan, reviewing frequencies, parts used, recommending alternative parts/vendors, meantime between failure rates.
• Manage and recommend improvements to maintenance schedules.
• Overhaul and repair of plant.
• Complete stores requisitions for parts and contract services (on the SAP system or equivalent), including expediting deliveries with suppliers.
• Continually supervise plant conditions and report defects.
• Deliver a consistent and improving plant reliability through the effective management and monitoring of downtime, PPM conformance, engineering planning, use of SAP PM and elements of the engineering budget.
• Report and present all performance matters routinely, including trends and breakdown/fault data.
• Be a role model as the team champions of good engineering standards.
• Carry out safety checks on equipment in line with legislation and standard methodology.
• Report plant performance using appropriate company systems and ensure action on/communication of non-conformance issues.
• Manage engineering duties and tasks across the factory as deemed vital and suitable to reduce idle time.
• Consider and apply sustainability, waste minimisation and Energy consumption where appropriate.

This role is ideally suited for a multi-skilled engineer and extremely varied background (bearings, gearboxes, motors, shafts, drives, seals), bench fitting (drilling, grinding, use of bench tools, turning) and requires an individual who can operate in various situations and environments. Experience of generic engineering equipment hydraulics, pneumatics, PLCs. Acting efficiently under pressure in a fast paced and dynamic environment and make timely decisions is important. You will be solution focussed with a drive to embed continuous improvement activities across the site.

You will need a proven engineering background through formal engineering qualification to at the least City & Guilds level, NVQ level 3 or equivalent in a mechanical and/or electrical subject area, and practical working experience. You will be excellent at working within a team and autonomously when required, with a confident communication style to empower and mentor colleagues to develop their engineering skills.

Additional crucial criteria for candidates:

• Mechanical comprehension skills.
• Electrical comprehension skills.
• Fault finding skills.
• Data analysis & interpretation skills.
• Risk assessment trained.
• Permit to work trained.
• Ability to train effectively.
• Technical report writing ability.
• Full understanding of safe working practices and relevant legislation where applicable.
• Numerical ability.
• Literacy.
• Dexterity.
• Ability to follow instructions.
• Accuracy/attention to detail.
• Knowledge of COSHH.
• Basic PC skills.
• Problem solving techniques.
• Influencing skills.
• Sophisticated PLC Skills (highly desirable).

You will be required to work 12-hour shifts fixed nights (6pm-6am) on the Pitman shift pattern. You will work Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday week one and Wednesday and Thursday week two so you will have every other weekend off. Flexibility of working hours as required for training, project work or to facilitate cross-shift initiatives (e.g. continuous improvement forums). For the avoidance of doubt, changes to shift patterns will be in line with contract of employment.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business. We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.