Multi-Skilled Engineer

Warburtons; Wednesbury; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share

Extra annual leave

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Employee discounts

Personal development

Free snacks

Health & wellbeing support

Job summary

Warburtons is seeking a Multi-Skilled Engineer to join our team in Wednesbury. You’ll bring a strong mix of mechanical and electrical engineering skills to maintain, fault-find and improve our manufacturing equipment in a modern bakery environment.

Working with Production, Safety and Hygiene teams, you’ll apply data and root-cause analysis to reduce downtime, while driving continuous improvement and ensuring health and safety standards are met across site operations.

Qualifications

• Strong mix of mechanical and electrical engineering skills.
• Experience in manufacturing or FMCG.
• Good understanding of planned and preventative maintenance.
• Problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience with condition-based monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Perform planned and preventative maintenance.
• Conduct condition-based monitoring.
• Fault finding and mechanical/electrical troubleshooting.
• Improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime.
• Use data and root cause analysis to implement long-term solutions.
• Work with automated processing and packaging systems.
• Support continuous improvement across the site.
• Share ideas with the wider engineering team.
• Ensure health and safety standards are met.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

Fault finding

Root cause analysis

Problem solving

Education

Recognised engineering qualification (Apprenticeship, HNC, BTEC or equivalent)

Job description

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At Warburtons, engineering keeps everything moving. From maintaining and improving our equipment to solving problems before they become problems, our Engineers play a big part in keeping our bakeries doing what they do best.

We’re looking for aMulti-Skilled Engineer to join our team in Wednesbury. Ideally, you’ll bring a strong mix ofmechanical and electrical engineering skills, although a mechanicalbias would be particularly welcome.

And there’s plenty to get stuck into. You’ll be working within a modern food manufacturing environment, helping us keep our equipment safe, reliable and performing at its best.

The Recipe

No two shifts are quite the same.

You’ll work alongside our Production, Safety and Hygiene teams, using your engineering know-how to maintain, find faults, fix problems and, importantly, look for ways of stopping them happening again.

You’ll be involved in:

• Planned and preventative maintenance
• Condition based monitoring
• Mechanical and electrical fault finding
• Improving equipment reliability and reducing downtime
• Using data and root cause analysis to find long-term solutions
• Working with automated equipment, processing and packaging systems
• Supporting continuous improvement across the site
• Sharing ideas and engineering expertise with the wider team

The Method

• Ensure all engineering activities undertaken are compliant to internal & external standards including Health & Safety legislation, identifying any required actions so that the area of responsibility is healthy, safe and accident free.
• Responsible for executing fault finding and maintenance through RCM and CBM activities. Driving improvements in asset reliability and reduction in losses.
• Adheres to site specific machinery procedures to ensure safe and efficient asset maintenance, contributing to the continuous improvement of operational performance.
• Drive a proactive Engineering Continuous Improvement culture - Contributing to the improvement and development of maintenance activities & standard operating procedures.
• Compliance with quality and food safety legislation, company standards and specifications in order to meet the requirements of professional and legal standards.

We’re looking for an Engineer who takes pride in keeping our machines maintained and working efficiently, whilst working in collaboration with our production team.

Ideally, you’ll have:

• A recognised engineering qualification, such as anApprenticeship, HNC, BTEC or equivalent
• Multi Skilled Engineering experience with a Mechanical bias
• Experience within manufacturing or FMCG
• A good understanding of planned and preventative maintenance
• Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills
• An understanding of condition based monitoring
• A practical approach to Health & Safety and Food Safety

Extra Dough

Last but by no means least, you'll want to know what your breads worth.

• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
• Award winning pension scheme with company contributions
• Life assurance
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service