Engineering Lead - Bakery Production & Maintenance

Princes Group plc; Bradford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Princes Group plc at Millerdale, Bradford, seeks a hands-on Lead Engineer to head the Engineering team at the Millerdale bakery site in Barford (BD4 6RX). You will drive improvements to production efficiency, maintenance and project work, shaping site engineering strategy.

The ideal candidate will provide strong leadership, sustain maintenance programs, and develop the team to deliver cost reductions and safety excellence across site operations.

Qualifications

• High level knowledge of pneumatic, electrical, and large mechanical machinery.
• Experience with packaging/bagging equipment, multihead weighers, checkweighers.
• Welding skills in TIG/MIG.
• Thorough and ‘Right First Time’ approach to diagnostic, maintenance and repair work.
• Good bench fitting and metal fabrication skill set using hand tools; ability to design simple ad-hoc parts.
• Working with single phase & three phase systems.
• Electrical fault finding in panels, 3 phase motors, VFDs, relays, transformers, SMPS, contactors, wiring harnesses etc.
• High level of fault-finding knowledge of PLCs.
• Ability to think laterally and solve production problems quickly and safely.
• Independent work and strong communication within a small engineering team.

Responsibilities

• To provide general maintenance for all production related equipment following Company rules on Health and Safety, Quality and Engineering Procedures.
• To ensure all PPMs are completed, with supporting documentation, on time as part of Engineering targets.
• Ensuring breakdowns are rectified efficiently while investigating root cause to prevent reoccurrence.
• Respond to ad hoc requests and participate in specific projects as directed by the site team.
• Develop skills through self-development or Company training opportunities.
• Manage contractors for maintenance and repairs, ensuring compliance with HSE policies.
• Provide frontline engineering support to manufacturing operations.
• Monitor plant conditions and report defects.
• Maintain detailed logs of work carried out on plant.
• Represent the Company professionally inside and outside the business.
• Protect health and safety of self and others at all times.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as required.

Job description

Princes Group plc at Millerdale, Bradford, seeks a hands-on Lead Engineer to head the Engineering team at the Millerdale bakery site in Barford (BD4 6RX). You will drive improvements to production efficiency, maintenance and project work, shaping site engineering strategy.

The ideal candidate will provide strong leadership, sustain maintenance programs, and develop the team to deliver cost reductions and safety excellence across site operations.