Maintenance Engineer in Northfleet

Location: Northfleet, Kent, United Kingdom

As a Maintenance Engineer at PrepWorld, you will be working as part of a team or individually on Nights. You will be responsible for scheduled maintenance, fault finding and repair of food manufacturing equipment and associated support services and systems.

• Carry out routine scheduled servicing and maintenance on food manufacturing, ancillary and associated equipment.
• Suitably trained and competent to carry out mechanical maintenance tasks and electrical isolations.
• Attend machine and equipment breakdowns in a timely manner and apply sound engineering principles to diagnosis and repair.
• Apply root cause analysis principles to identify and subsequently rectify issues to deliver continuous improvement.
• Maintain good maintenance record keeping as required.
• Support the Production Teams at all levels to drive continuous improvement and reduce downtime.
• Support both the Engineering Shift Managers and Maintenance Planner in selecting correct spare parts and maintaining stock levels.
• Attend training courses (internal and external) as required by PrepWorld to build personal and Engineering Department capabilities.
• Assist in training/mentoring other members of the Engineering Team or other Departments if required to do so.
• Maintain and promote good health and safety practices as a core principle of engineering activity on site.
• Participate in Capital and improvement Projects as required.
• Maintain good housekeeping practices within the Engineering Department and site wide as required.

The role involves manual handling and the ability to withstand working in cold storage conditions on a daily basis.

• Maintain and continually improve good working relationships at all levels with all PrepWorld Departments.

• Maintain and promote health and safety at work best practices to achieve zero lost hours within the Engineering Department due to injury.
• 100% completion of all scheduled maintenance tasks duly issued.
• Respond to all breakdown requests in a timely manner.
• Escalation of any major issues preventing prompt problem resolution in a timely manner.

• Suitably trained and competent in mechanical disciplines.
• Suitably trained and competent to apply electrical isolations aligned with LOTO process.
• Good computer skills in Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Ability to problem solve.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Recognised apprenticeship or minimum of a Level 3 NVQ in a mechanical discipline or at least 5 years experience in a maintenance role with recognised qualifications.

• Ideally, previous experience of FMCG industry.

• Stream (track your earnings and instantly access up to 50% of your money as you earn it, without waiting for payday).
• On site parking with electric charge points.
• Fully paid for Staff events.
• Staff restaurant serving heavily subsidised hot and cold food.
• Brand new facilities.
• A supportive team.

4 on / 4 off rotating shift pattern. This is a night shift role, involving 12-hour shifts. We are currently seeking 2 engineers to join the team and work within this schedule.