Area Engineering Lead

McCain Foods; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food industry is seeking an Area Engineering Lead to optimize plant availability and reduce maintenance costs at their Scarborough facility. This role requires leadership in maintenance, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and implementing effective strategies. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and offers great benefits, including a strong pension plan and private healthcare.

Benefits

excellent pension

private medical healthcare

flexible holidays

optional health cash plan

cycle to work scheme

'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off

Qualifications

• Experience in developing and implementing maintenance strategy.
• Knowledge of industrial plant and equipment.

Responsibilities

• Manage and report on departmental KPIs.
• Develop and implement maintenance strategy.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety standards.

Skills

lean manufacturing principles

advanced food hygiene

HACCP

Education

HNC or equivalent in appropriate discipline

Tools

IOSH Managing Safely

Job description

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Position Title: Area Engineering Lead

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Scarborough

Requisition ID: 36178

There’s nothing beige about McCain…

Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them.

When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.

We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better.

So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.

About The Role

We are looking for an Area Operations Engineer to join our #WeAreMcCain family. This is a leadership role within the Maintenance department who will manage and report on individual and departmental KPI’s to ensure targets are being met, this will include technical, health and safety, and food safety.

Working as part of the Engineering team, the Area Operations Engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing the Maintenance strategy for the equipment within their area to optimise plant availability and reduce maintenance costs. You’ll ensure planned tasks are executed using all available resources based on agreed timeframes, budgets, and priorities and to agreed standards using a combination of plant, process and maintenance knowledge. You’ll also…

• Develop Work Methods, Risk Assessments and any other supporting documentation required to complete maintenance work within their assigned area safely, efficiently and effectively.
• Identify, organise and manage contracted service requirements where necessary.
• Establish practices to maintain a safe working environment and hold people to account for those standards, managing your department in such a way to deliver high levels of compliance at all times as a consistent operating standard.
• Facilitate RCM and FMEA’s for assets within their assigned area and implement changes to maintenance strategies based on outputs.
  
  

What We’re Looking For…

We’re looking for an Engineering Professional within manufacturing, with experience of developing and implementing strategy resulting in improvements across the site. You’ll be experienced with lean manufacturing principles, advanced food hygiene and HACCP.

You must also have…

• IOSH Managing Safely
• HNC or equivalent in appropriate discipline
• Working knowledge of industrial plant and equipment
  
  

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?

Benefits

Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in chips. For working hard, you’ll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:

• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• Private medical healthcare
• Flexible holidays – where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Optional health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
  
  

And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an impressive 5 year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.

WHERE WILL I WORK?

You’ll be based at our Scarborough plant in North Yorkshire. We opened this plant back in the swinging sixties, but it’s definitely not stuck in the past. It’s one of the largest French fry factories in the world and after a recent development, it’s also one of the most high tech. Our team of over 300 colleagues work hard to make sure the quality of our products keep our customers returning for more, for now and years to come!

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Job Family: Manufacturing

Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Department: Maintenance Man Tech

Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough

Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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