At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain and service utilities, waste water treatment, and general site services.
- Company: Join a leading team at Alpro in a state-of-the-art facility.
- Benefits: Professional development, supportive environment, and opportunities for growth.
- Other info: Physical fitness required; enjoy a dynamic and friendly workplace.
- Why this job: Be part of a proactive team making a real impact in a growing business.
- Qualifications: Experience in utilities, waste management, and technical knowledge preferred.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
We are the market leader in an ever-expanding category. As a site here at Kettering, we have record-breaking teams within the Alpro group and are massively proud of those successes. We fully intend to continue to build on these successes. All operational roles are instrumental to the Team, winning in all areas especially Health and Safety.
The mission of this role is to deliver world-class maintenance and engineering to the Kettering site through integral training and upskilling of employees. Once established in the role, the Job holder will attend further education externally to qualify to engineering standard of NVQ level 3 in either mechanical or electrical principle, and will complete on-the-job training next to our team of qualified engineers.
The job holder will have responsibilities and involvement in the three key areas as listed below:
- Utilities: Servicing and maintaining the Utilities, including air compressors, refrigeration, boilers, cooling towers, air handling units, water treatment plant – this list is not exhaustive.
- Waste Water Treatment Plant: Servicing and maintaining the waste water treatment plant, associated equipment, MBR plant and water reuse system, as a support to our external supplier.
- General Site Services and Utilities: Servicing and maintaining all aspects of Facility and Utilities around the Kettering site as per the MPS schedules.
Key accountabilities, deliverables & KPIs
- Utilities: Meter reading, daily liaison with suppliers for utilities upkeep, daily utility checks and analysis, daily update utilities service schedule, daily boiler checks, weekly utilities checks, boiler operation in accordance with BOAS, absorption chiller operation checks, compliance checks, MBR & RO Plant Operation, water softening plant, cooling tower operation, legionella controls.
- Waste Water Treatment Plant: Support to carry out laboratory analysis as required, develop relationship with contractors to ensure support is maintained for plant operation, chemical stock level checks and reordering, calling in waste sludge contractor to empty the waste tanks.
- General Site Services: Carry out investigations and repairs identified by Site Service Team, carry out weekly, monthly, quarterly PPM to the plant equipment and process, weekly fire alarm testing and recording, daily site repairs, weekly sprinkler tests and logging, monthly domestic water temperature testing, monthly meter readings, weekly compliance checks & tests.
WORK-RELATED IMPEDIMENTS
- COSHH: Risk of injury or irritation when working with chemicals during a limited part of the day.
- Working at height: Risk of falling during the use of ladders, platforms, scissor lifts and steps.
- Manual Handling: Strenuous postures during the execution of works spread over different areas.
- Noise at Work: Risk of nuisance/noise-induced hearing loss caused by machine noise.
- Stress & Wellbeing: Risk of anxiety/stress caused by increased pressure of work.
- Adverse temperature in the workplace: Risk of ill health or discomfort when working in high or low temperature environments.
- PPE: Reliance on PPE to control workplace hazards.
- Display screen equipment (DSE): Muscle and posture strain due to DSE work.
- Dust in the workplace: Nuisance caused by dust.
- Slips, trips and falls: The role involves visiting all areas of the site at various levels.
About You Candidate profile
- Knowledge: Sufficient experience in a similar environment, desirable experience working with steam boilers, air compressors, boiler water treatment and water softening plant.
- Waste: Experience with waste water treatment plants and managing site waste.
- General Site Services: Sufficient experience in a similar environment.
- Technical: Knowledge of IWS and Six Sigma methodologies, knowledge of safe working practices, hygiene standards in a food environment, at least 3 years in a similar environment, forklift trained preferable.
- Communication: Ability to work unsupervised and within a team, technically discuss issues/opportunities as required, sense of urgency when problems are identified.
The job holder should be physically fit as the role requires lots of walking, climbing and lifting.
About Us
We are a proactive and supportive team working in a state-of-the-art facility, friendly and safe environment. You will have the opportunity to be part of a positive and growing business. Professional development is at the core of Alpro, with a variety of on-the-job training and machine-specific learning. We are keen to bring on and develop our people.
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At Alpro, we pride ourselves on being a market leader in the food industry, offering a supportive and proactive work environment at our state-of-the-art Kettering facility. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through extensive training opportunities, including external education to achieve NVQ level 3 qualifications, ensuring that our team members are equipped with the skills needed for success. Join us to be part of a friendly team that values health and safety while fostering professional development and innovation.
