Days Maintenance Engineer - Multiskilled

Unilever; Port Sunlight; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Subsidised gym membership

Staff shop discounts

Share scheme

Flexible/hybrid working environment

Wellbeing programmes

Job summary

Unilever in Port Sunlight is seeking a Days Maintenance Engineer - Multiskilled to own PM and Tags Management while eliminating breakdown losses. The role focuses on building operator capability and driving PM standardization, with responsibility for planning meetings and spare parts coordination.

Candidates should be skilled in at least one mechanical or electrical discipline, hold an advanced engineering apprenticeship and NVQ Level 4, and have experience with condition-based monitoring and

Qualifications

• Skilled in one mechanical or electrical discipline and instructed in the other.
• Formal engineering apprenticeship and NVQ Level 4.
• Experience with PM and maintenance planning processes.
• Experience with root cause analysis and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Owns the PM process for the line, including deployment, execution and KPI reporting.
• Maintains PM standards and technical documentation; drives improvements.
• Manages Tags Planning and weekly planning meetings.
• Orders spare parts and supports inventory policy updates.
• Supports breakdown elimination and root cause analysis using WCM methods.

Skills

PM/AM maintenance

Root cause analysis

Kaizen

Maintenance planning

Education

Engineering apprenticeship + NVQ Level 4

Tools

Oil analysis

Thermography

Vibration analysis

Job description

Job Title: Days Maintenance Engineer - Multiskilled

Location: Port Sunlight Factories

JOB PURPOSE

The Run to Standard Cell Focused Technician owns the PM and Tags Management processes for the line. They are responsible for eliminating maintenance and breakdown related losses and for improving Mean Tim Between Failures (MTBF). They are responsible for building technical capability in operators.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Owns the PM process for the line. This includes deployment, execution, reporting the KPI for meetings and continuous improvement of the process and standards.
• Owns the PM standards, incl. technical documentation. Continuously drives improvement of the PM standards.
• Owns the Tags Management & planning process for the line.
• Owns and facilitates the weekly PM and Tags planning meeting.
• Orders spare parts and supports the maintenance planning with updating the spare parts inventory policies.
• Owns the Breakdown Elimination process for the line. This includes deployment, execution, reporting the KPI for meetings and continuous improvement of the process.
• Supports engineers with the Breakdown Elimination Process.
• Complete EWOs to root cause using WCM methodology.
• Owns the building of technical capability in operators ensuring they are working to the AM standards to maintain basic conditions on the line to prevent breakdowns.
• Coaches operators and emerging engineers on processes.
• Supports the development and execution of distinct areas of the 90-day plan and weekly / monthly plans.
• Supports and leads problem solving sessions.

ALL ABOUT YOU

• OSHE – Risk Assessment, 80/20 System, SOL and THA process, Accident analysis, Machinery isolation, Permit to work procedure.
• WCM – 7 tools, Kaizen, PM, AM, FI Maintenance Techniques - Condition based monitoring, FMEA, Predictive techniques: oils analysis, thermograph, vibration, Asset management.
• Ensure the work area is back to original conditions after engineering activities.
• Mechanical/Electrical – As a minimum must be at a Skilled Level in one discipline either Mechanical or Electrical and at an Instructed Level in the other discipline.
• Technical Qualification (formal engineering apprenticeship (dual skill) advanced diploma or equivalent + NVQ Level 4).

NOTES About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry's, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle. Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and pension scheme.
• Annual bonus.
• Subsidised gym membership.
• Discounted staff shop.
• Shares.
• Flexible and hybrid working environment.
• Full-time basis with possible flexible working options.
• Support for wellbeing including hubs, programmes and development opportunities.
• We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. As part of your hiring journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments, to improve your recruitment experience.