Glasgow Engineer

About Princes
The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Role Description

Job Purpose: Reporting to the Site Engineering Manager and forming part of a multi-skilled shift maintenance team, the post holder will be required to maintain equipment and repair faults as directed.

Phase 1: Rotating Day shift up to 12 weeks training.
Phase 2: Working Rotating Double Days - M-Thu / 12.00- Friday-one week early/next week backs.

Site equipment includes: Syrup Room, Canning production lines with the capacity for producing over 100,000 units per hour, Kisters, Depalletiser, Palletisers, Onsite Services which include Boilers, Compressors, Bottling/packing lines.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Undertake the role in accordance with health, safety, environmental, food hygiene and quality requirements ensuring compliance at all times.
• Respond promptly to breakdowns to minimise downtime and the associated costs.
• Carry out fault finding on a diverse range of automated equipment.
• Carry out identified modifications and improvements.
• Implement and support planned preventative maintenance schemes.
• Complete maintenance schedules and engage in operational improvements.
• Actively support continuous improvement projects and activities by challenging existing practices and making recommendations for improvements.
• Communicate with the relevant departments on breakdown and maintenance progress.
• Complete all relevant reports and accurately maintain engineering CMMS records.
• Monitor the efficiency of equipment and identify problem areas to proactively implement improvements.
• Ensure the engineering spares store records are updated when parts and materials are used.
• Maintain all work areas to the required 5S standards.
• Record and communicate any adjustments to production equipment.
• Be fully competent in a wide range of machine and equipment operating and cleaning procedures.
• Review daily achievement of targets and report variances.
• Resolve all operational problems on the lines.
• Carry out fault diagnosis and first line repairs where task competent to do so including lubrication, breakdown repair, changeover and running adjustments.
• Carry out effective handovers by communicating key information to other colleagues.
• Carry out new or additional tasks, projects, trials, and other reasonable duties in conjunction with colleagues in your area of work.
• Maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.

Role Requirements

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Relevant Electrical Engineering Qualifications including a time served apprenticeship.
• Relevant Engineering experience in FMCG.
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills with colleagues of all levels.
• Experience in using CMMS e.g. SAP.
• Experience in Root Cause Analysis tools/problem solving methodology.
• Pro-active problem solving approach.

Benefits:

• 22 shifts Annual Leave plus Birthday off.
• 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer.
• Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days.
• Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies.
• Critical Illness Cover.
• Learning & Development Opportunities.