Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Watford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainable food production is seeking a skilled Engineer to join their night shift team. The candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring smooth factory operations, requiring expertise in maintaining and improving machinery. With competitive benefits and a supportive work environment, this role offers a chance to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Option to buy more holiday

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Free Gu products

Flexi week opportunity

Cycle to work

Summer Fridays

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years’ engineering experience in food manufacturing.
• Multi-skilled with formal engineering qualification.
• Apprenticeship in an engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

• Carry out all maintenance across the factory.
• Respond to breakdowns ensuring minimal downtime.
• Deliver on plant uptime and maintenance KPIs.

Skills

Mechanical breakdown resolution

Electrical maintenance

Health and Safety

PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance)

Education

NVQ Level 3 in electrical or mechanical subject

Nationally recognised apprenticeship

Job description

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There’s More to Gü

Gü is now a Certified B Corporation! We’re officially part of a global movement committed to balancing profit with purpose. With a certification score of 89.4, we're proud to join fewer than 100 UK manufacturers leading the charge in sustainability and social impact. We’re proud that all of our packaging is 100% recyclable, as well as the obvious upcycling benefits of our glass ramekins that has been true since Gü launched.

With this growth agenda, this means growth in our teams, massive success stories of internal promotions, which requires us to source more talent!

Gu Puds are expanding their site with an additional production line and are looking for an Engineer to join their night shift team.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will be ensuring the smooth running of the factory by resolving predominately mechanical and electrical breakdowns, delivering maintenance and driving improvements across the site in terms of new machinery, hygiene, quality, and performance.

Every individual has a responsibility for Health and Safety, and this must be at the forefront of all engineering activity.

• Expected to carry out all maintenance across the factory, in both a low care and high care environment Work with engineering team to test install and commission new equipment.
• Attend to breakdowns onsite ensuring that there is always a rapid response and that plant equipment and machinery breakdown time is minimised.
• Always endeavour to reduce downtime of site plant and machinery
• Carry out repairs to plant and equipment during production, effectively and efficiently, either alone and/or as part of a team.
• To carry out PPM onsite whilst always ensuring that there is a pro-active approach to planned maintenance and a high PPM output.
• Deliver on plant uptime and maintenance KPIs through planned, preventative & predictive maintenance.
• Deliver improvement work on machinery and site improvement work; Ensure Engineering time is managed effectively and that that there is low Engineering down-time

You:

• Minimum of 3 years’ engineering experience ideally within food manufacturing
• Multi-skilled with formal engineering qualification to NVQ Level 3 or higher, in an electrical or mechanical subject.
• Nationally recognised apprenticeship in an engineering discipline.

Benefits include:-

• Option to buy more holiday.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity (Maternity is 6 months full pay after 2 years of service. 3 months full for 1-2 years).
• Free Gu.
• Flexi week opportunity every year.
• Cycle to work.
• Summer Fridays (June/July/August finish at 1pm on Fridays)

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