Site Services Engineer

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Vacancy Name: Site Services Engineer
Employment Type: Permanent
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Wisbech
Business Area: Operations
Workplace Type: Onsite

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 350 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

This is a 4 on 4 off Shift Pattern (days and nights). To have overall responsibility for efficient operation of the utility equipment. To manage the utilities and be the main contact with outsourcing service providers to ensure utilities are successfully delivered to site with efficient use of energy and other resources so as to meet site targets for KPI’s including emissions control.

Working on shifts, reporting to the Site Services Manager, this role is part of a team which will have responsibility for proactively managing Asset care to ensure that equipment performance is maximised/optimised. The role makes a positive contribution to planning and executing all Asset Care activity on shift. Planned to schedule, response to breakdowns and associated RCA and correction action is undertaken in a timely and professional manner and playing a proactive role in the development of Autonomous Maintenance in operations as part of the wider engineering team. All practices must be implemented and operate within Health, Safety & Environmental legislation and site policies and procedures as appropriate.

Plays a proactive role in the asset care element of the Engineering function on shift, to help the site achieve optimal operational efficiency at lowest cost through the delivery of targets against the strategic objectives of the Group Supply function.

Key Relationships

• Engineering Shift Leader, Canning Asset Care Manager and Asset Care Planner, Shift Managers, Team Leaders, Engineering Peer Group, Manufacturing Team, Quality Team, Logistics team and Site services team when applicable. CI when applicable for training and development.

Key Responsibilities

• Safety, Quality, Hygiene
• Undertake duties in a responsible manner giving due consideration to Safety, Environmental & Quality procedures, which form part of the Integrated Management System.
• Ensure work undertaken conforms to legislative requirements
• Embrace a culture of safe behavior and contractor health and safety within the production and engineering areas
• Embrace a culture enhancing behavioral awareness to reduce accidents, incidents and near misses.
• To maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.

• Asset Management
• To provide proactive, fast and effective response to all breakdowns across the shift.
• Execute the planned asset care activities as directed from the Asset Care team.
• Play a proactive role by supporting the development of efficient and effective asset care programs to improve equipment reliability and availability across the site, standardising the asset care approach with the drive to ensure effective maintenance systems.
• Support the development of the asset care strategy for the site.
• To proactively support the drive the transition from reactive to proactive with targets of 80% of Engineering work planned in advance, 20% of engineering time on CI with 75% known utilization of engineers.
• Ensuring cost of maintenance and maintaining assets is transparent and known.
• Support by actively embracing and utilising SAP PM and other systems to drive planning and control and focussed improvements.

• Training and development of Autonomous maintenance on shift

• Stores Management Support
• Support the Stores development programme by proactively ensuring the proper use of the SAP system and associated technology when utilizing material resources (Spares) as part of a works order or a project.

• Site Services and Energy Management Support
• Support the Site services team when on a shift where they have no specific cover, ensure fast and effective response to breakdowns and other performance related issues. In doing so also ensure that statutory compliance is adhered and performance standards are at such that best practice is applied for the environmental impact and continuity of supply.
• Understand and support the site services KPI framework to drive performance standards of Water, Air, Gas, Electricity and Steam.
• To support the Site services team and wider engineering remit in understanding the Group Energy strategy framework to drive continuous improvements in energy consumption and drive down the costs.

• Site Electrical Management
• Work within site electrical standards are at a minimum compliant with current relevant legislation and the Princes group standards
• When required and coordinated through the engineering Shift Lead be prepared to work with the site Electrical Duty holder who will support with the complete compliance programme.

• Site Capital plan
• When applicable support capital projects through proactive involvement either when assigned to a specific team for input and actions or ensuring that the shift team are trained and developed in any new installations.

• Continuous improvement
• Understand the working practices associated with CI by being proactive in progressively understanding all aspects deemed relevant to the role.
• Proactively using 5S, GMP, RCA, and other continuous improvement tools to identify areas for improvement to ensure that the productive capability of the plant is optimised and improved for the needs of the shift and site.
• Understand how performance is measured and made up, so as to play a proactive role in identifying and implementing where applicable, opportunities to improve equipment reliability and efficiency using the tools available.
• To challenge the status quo, to support a culture of best practice and continuous improvement that focuses on elimination of waste in all forms across the shift.

• Manage/Develop People
• Working within the Group standard Training Needs analysis framework (MEOSI) look to develop own skills as deemed appropriate for the betterment of the shift.
• Working within the Asset Management framework, in particular Autonomous Maintenance this role has responsibility to develop AM routines, document and train and sign off where appropriate Manufacturing personnel.
• Challenge work practices and processes to achieve improved operational performance.
• Develop a culture of ownership within the team for the on-going development of the equipment.
• Conduct self in accordance with site values and behaviors at all times.

• Technical Leadership
• Support the Engineering shift leader in being the first point of Engineering support for the wider shift. Apply defined best practice in all engineering and maintenance matters. Develop and apply own specialist technical skills in support of factory KPI’s.
• This role has the responsibility to learn and gain full understanding of the fundamentals of the production processes at the factory and that new technology and management procedures are introduced in a manner that improves the cost base and competitive position of the factory.

• Communication
• Work as part of a team with shift peers to realize objective based performance and drive the site forward on its improvement targets set within the Princes Manufacturing System framework.
• Support the Shift lead with communication to other shifts and peers for efficient and effective transition and sharing of best practice.
• Work closely with functional engineering department to help realize the Asset care philosophy and technological developments through new equipment and systems.

Experience Required

Role Requirements

• HNC or equivalent in an Electrical or multi skilled engineering discipline, hands-on experience with a demonstrable track record of success.
• PLC fault finding and programming – Siemens preferable
• IEE/IET 17 th Edition preferable
• Demonstrable track record of achieving results / managing change.
• Strong operational grounding within a complex fast moving manufacturing environment.
• Operated and familiar with implementation of the principles of World Class Manufacturing environments / Continuous Improvement methodologies.
• Good working knowledge of operating systems such as SAP, Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Key experience of operating utilities plant; effluent treatment, steam raising plant, Compressors and fridge plant.

Key Behavioral Indicators

• Able to quickly establish good relationships both internally, with people at differing levels of an organization. Able to leverage this to inspire others to identify and own change. Able to motivate and mentor.
• Able to put forward robust proposals in an open and honest environment, embracing and involving people across the whole shift.
• Ability to develop good working relationships across shift and functional departments.
• Be able to analyse problems and opportunities and determine the most appropriate course of action to rectify.
• Excellent Team player
• Good coaching and development skills.
• Creative problem solver, decisive, practical, analytical, willing to take the initiative.
• Hard working, patient and resilient.

Benefits

• 22 Shift Holidays per annum
• 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
• Flexible Holiday Option – Buy 5 Additional Days
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Critical Illness Cover
• Learning & Development Opportunities

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries
• Food and Beverage Services

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