Site Services 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 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

Shift pattern: 4 on 4 off shift pattern - 12hr days and nights.

Key responsibilities: safely maintaining and operating the effluent treatment plant, steam raising plant and ensuring an unfettered supply of other site utilities to the manufacturing environment, ensuring the site operates within its environmental consent limits. Also to include other duties regarding the maintenance of general building services and fabric, yard areas and the Energy Centre, and effluent treatment plant. Timely response to plant breakdowns and planned maintenance, all owned until complete. All work formally recorded as such and handed over to oncoming team.

Working on shifts, rotating nights and days, reporting to the Site Services Engineering Manager, this role is part of a team which will have responsibility for proactively managing asset care to ensure that equipment performance is optimised. The role makes a positive contribution to planning and executing all asset care activity on shift.

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: Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety, People.

Work closely with the Shift Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality leaders and peer groups and Site Asset care Planner to support the delivery of an agreed Group Asset Care Strategy for the site.

• Ensure proactive response to maintenance and breakdowns on site ensuring continuity of production and services.
• Carry out maintenance activities, ensuring the manufacturing team achieve maximum compliance to the production plan, by minimising engineering downtime. Moving the maintenance strategy from a firefighting mentality to a proactive approach.
• Identify the root cause, record actions taken to correct fault and update Planned Maintenance system.
• Openly share knowledge within team to increase the department flexibility.
• Improve the performance and efficiency of the existing plant through continuous improvement techniques.
• Communicate effectively and confidently to all levels of colleagues within Princes and maintain professional communication with clients, suppliers, contractors and customers outside the business.
• Ensure both verbal and written shift handovers are carried effectively.
• Maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.

Role Requirements

Skills and knowledge:

• Effective communication
• Engineering activities in a food manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of Steam raising boiler equipment
• Knowledge of how pneumatic systems work
• Knowledge of how electrical distribution systems work
• Knowledge of soft water systems
• Knowledge of Legionella control
• Advanced mechanical and electrical diagnostic skills
• Demonstrable knowledge of relevant CI techniques
• Working with CMMS – Preferably SAP

Benefits

• 22 Days Annual Leave
• 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

At Princes we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates (including application). Please let us know as soon as possible of any additional support or reasonable adjustments you require through the recruitment process by emailing Recruitment@princes.co.uk.

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