Engineer - Days

Robert McBride; Middleton; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

McBride is seeking an ambitious and proactive Maintenance Engineer to join the Middleton production site on a day shift pattern, providing 24/7 reactive and proactive engineering support. You will ensure assets run at maximum speeds with minimal interruptions, applying root-cause analysis and continuous improvement methods.

You'll work within a cross-functional team, use CMMS to plan maintenance, and participate in safety walks and risk assessments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience on high-volume production automation.
• Knowledge of pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical control systems.
• Time served apprenticeship or HNC/ONC in Electrical/Mechanical Eng.
• Able to read electrical and mechanical drawings.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned maintenance inspections and tasks to high standard.
• Perform reactive maintenance and fault finding to provide timely fixes.
• Use CMMS to plan work and record maintenance activities.
• Support safety audits and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with team and contractors to install new assets.

Skills

Multi-Skilled Maintenance

Electrical fault finding

Mechanical fault finding

PLC programming (basic)

Reading electrical drawings

Education

Time served apprenticeship

HNC/ONC in Electrical/Mechanical Eng

Tools

MS Office

Electrical drawings

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 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 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 dis