Role Type: Permanent
Salary: £50,202 per annum
Based: Stoke Bakery, Mr Kipling manufacturer, ST4 6PH
Shift: 4 x 4 days, 42 hours with some flexibility required as there could be overtime needed.
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6PH
Premier Foods Stoke, the home of the nation's favourite Mr Kipling Cherry Bakewells, has an exciting opportunity for a Reliability Engineering Chargehand to provide support to the Reliability Engineering Manager. The successful candidate will be improving the site's OEE through continuous improvement, PPM, process analysis and plant improvement.
What you’ll be doing:
- Ensure departmental KPIs are achieved or exceeded.
- Attend appropriate meetings as required, e.g., Production daily meetings.
- Maintain and support colleagues in upkeep of necessary documents such as SAP and CMMS.
- Engender a proactive continuous improvement and maintenance culture with “planned and preventative” as a central feature.
- Issue and monitor permits when needed for in‑house contractors.
- Challenge non‑compliance to health and safety and raise concerns when necessary.
- Understand and apply the company quality standards and practices.
- Provide engineering services with the aim to exceed customer satisfaction.
- Support the development of engineering apprentices, engineering teams and other departments for colleagues’ continued development.
What we need from you:
Essential
- At least 5 years’ experience in food or an allied industry.
- Demonstrable experience of driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong proactive ethos demonstrated through positive behaviour.
- Strong leadership ability with motivation to inspire team members and peers.
- Electrical/Mechanical Maintenance.
- Level 3 or higher standard of education in Electrical or Mechanical.
Desirable
- Experience/Training in PLC maintenance.
- Experience of pneumatic maintenance.
- Experience of hydraulic maintenance.
At Premier Foods we believe in inclusion, authenticity and individuality. We aim to ensure all existing and future colleagues are given equitable opportunities and are respected, valued and encouraged to bring their true authentic selves to work, no matter who they are, what they look like, who they love or what they believe in. Our culture is one where everyone is welcome.
We’re proud to be a Disability Smart employer and are committed to supporting disability inclusion throughout our recruitment process. If you experience any access issues or require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know so we can ensure you have the support you need.
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