Engineer - Days

McBride; Manchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

McBride in Manchester is seeking a proactive, self-motivated Maintenance Engineer to join the cross-functional site team on a day shift. You will provide a 24/7 reactive and proactive engineering service to the Middleton production site, ensuring assets perform at maximum speeds with minimal interruptions.

The role focuses on root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, safe operation, and collaboration with contractors.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience on high-volume automated production machinery.
• Time served apprenticeship or HNC/ONC in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering.
• Read electrical and mechanical drawings; fault finding and PLC knowledge advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned reliability maintenance inspections and tasks to a high standard.
• Perform reactive maintenance and fault finding to provide timely fixes.
• Apply safety procedures and risk assessments; support safety audits and safe systems of work.
• Utilise CMMS to plan work, requisition parts and record results.
• Engage with contractors on RM projects and new asset commissioning.

Skills

Multiskilled maintenance

Fault finding

Electrical & mechanical maintenance

Pneumatic systems

Hydraulic systems

PLC programming (advantageous)

Reading electrical drawings

MS Office

Education

Time served apprenticeship or HNC/ONC in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CMMS system

Job description

If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.

Key Purpose:

• Be a pro-active member of a cross functional, multi-skilled engineering team. Working on a day shift pattern to provide a 24/7 reactive and proactive engineering service to Middleton production site. Ensuring all assets perform to maximum production speeds with minimum interruptions and breakdowns.
• Having a natural desire for continuous improvement and ability to get to the root cause of failures. Applying corrective measures required to ensure all McBride assets are maintained and repaired to a high standard.
• Ensuring all equipment is fit for purpose as required and maintained to high safety standards. Working in a safe manner and inline with all Health & Safety procedures and McBride Health & Safety Policies and Procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work proactively within a team and independently to carry out:
• Issue and work with Permit to Work systems, Isolation Procedures and McBride Risk Assessments and Policies.
• Play an active part in Safety Walks and identifying improvements and producing/updating Risk Assessments.
• Completion of Planned Reliability Maintenance Inspections and Tasks to a high standard
• Reactive maintenance and fault finding. Using practical problem solving skills to provide a timely fix.
• Ensuring production losses are minimal and workaround solutions are provided when required.
• Engage in Lean Maintenance Improvement Initiatives using CI and Lean techniques. Play an active role in CI projects taking the lead where appropriate.
• Use CMMS system to plan work. Including booking & requisitioning of spare parts, accurately recording completed work, follow up work, along with the results and findings of reliability maintenance tasks;
• Ensure communication is clear and consistent to all team members, management and across shifts – including all external customers such as Production, Quality and H&S,
• Collaborate with all site personnel to ensure site minimal disruption to production output.
• To assist with training new and existing staff members on specialist skills and experience to effectively benefit the team’s growth.
• Working alongside third party contractors on R&M and the implementation of new assets to site, including commissioning.
• Produce technical documentation and reports. Including SOPs and Risk Assessments.
• Support TPM autonomous maintenance and improve ways of working within the internal and external team.
• Have responsibility within the Emergency Evacuation plan to carry out the Engineering Investigation Team Role.
• Work a fully flexible rota which will include overtime and flexible working requirements

Key Result Areas:

• OEE improvements and reduction in downtime
• Labour utilisation
• Pro-active v Reactive Maintenance
• PPM completion
• CI improvements
• Changeover time and start ups
• Near Miss Raise and Close %
• Corrective action completion
• Audit compliance for workshops and Ways of Working
• Compliance to H&S audits and Safe Systems of Work

Relevant and Quantifiable Measures:

• 0 direct reports but essential to be a team player.

Behavioural Competencies / Personal Characteristics:

(Experience and skills needed to do the job)

• Able to handling complexity and a high pressure work environment.
• Able to work autonomously whilst effectively prioritising and adapting to variable workload.
• Good Communicator. Both written and verbal. Able to produce technical and non-technical report.
• Customer Orientated.
• Team player
• Highly responsible and conscientious
• Reliable and flexible with strong work ethic.
• Punctual, presentable and with good attendance.
• Pro-active and can do attitude required.
• Strong desire to learn and improve own skills.

Technical Competencies & Qualifications:

(Experience and skills needed to do the job)

• You should have a minimum of 3 years’ experience working on high volume production automated machinery with knowledge of pneumatic, hydraulic and electrical control systems whilst carrying out and preparing routine maintenance programs.
• You should hold a time served apprenticeship or a HNC/ONC in an Electrical/Mechanical Engineering background
• You should have strong Multi-Skilled Electrical or Mechanical Maintenance fault finding capabilities.
• Previous experience of a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer within a similar FMCG environment.
• Good knowledge of MS Office and general PC skills
• Able to read both electrical and mechanical drawings
• Able to fault find and basic PLC programming advantageous.

McBride Principles:

• Teamwork. Work together, learn from mistakes, support each other, and respect others opinions regardless of your own views. Think of the needs of the team and focus on the achievement of collective results. Handle any issue as one team and hold each other accountable for delivering results. Have the moral courage to bring all topics and difficult issues on the table for discussion, and commit to decisions collectively taken.

• Leadership Create an environment that encourages teamwork, engagement, and communication. Set the tone for a focus on results and define goals that are specific and actionable. Take the lead and responsibility, move forward without hesitation, and solve problems quickly.

• Engagement Be present and participate in the realisation of our mission, vision and goals Buy in to decisions, commit to plans, and always look for improvement Join in on discussions and debates Act with speed, agility, and confidence.

• Communication Be genuinely open with one another Talk and listen to each other Challenge each other Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

This job description describes the key areas of the post but is not exhaustive. The job description is subject to review and amendments in line with the needs of the business.

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