Multi Skilled Engineer - Days

Finsbury Food Group; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK bakery group is seeking a Multi-skilled Engineer to join their team at the Memory Lane Cakes site in Cardiff. This fast-paced role involves providing maintenance support while promoting a culture of continuous improvement. With opportunities for growth, successful candidates will possess strong communication skills and relevant engineering experience. The position offers a competitive salary, enhanced leave and pension schemes, and various employee benefits, all aimed at developing a talented workforce.

Benefits

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Retail discounts via Benefits Hub

Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300)

Employee Recognition Awards

Learning & Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Relevant experience operating as a multi-skilled engineer.
• Capable of mechanical, electrical and control's maintenance.
• Ability to mentor and coach apprentices and operators.

Responsibilities

• Perform planned maintenance and breakdown support across the site.
• Continuously monitor and improve processes to minimize downtime.
• Participate in project developments and continuous improvement culture.

Skills

Effective communication

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Education

Completed apprenticeship

Health and Safety training

Job description

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Salary: Competitive with Opportunity for Growth

Opportunity for overtime

We have an exciting opportunity for a Multi-skilled Engineer to join the Engineering team at our Memory Lane Cakes site as part of Finsbury Food Group.

Our Memory Lane Cakes site is part of our Cake Division within Finsbury Food Group. They make over 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes. They employ over 850 people on site and the sites runs 24/7, which encompasses a culture of teamwork, friendly and respectful leadership and a focus on continuous improvement at all levels.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses, along with great opportunities for growth and development. At Finsbury Food Group, we are passionate about investing in our teams and creating great development opportunities.

The Multi-skilled Engineer role is a fast-paced role that will be responsible for working as an active part of our cross-functional maintenance team. You will provide a multi-skilled engineering resource and first line maintenance to the site covering both mechanical and electrical, breakdown, fault finding and scheduled maintenance activities. To ensure that the site manufacturing equipment is maintained and available for use, continuously monitoring and improving processes.

To be successful in this role, previous experience in Food Manufacturing is desirable but not essential. You will need to have good communication skills being able to mentor and coach other engineers, apprentices and production operators. You will actively participate in the continuous improvement culture, identifying opportunities to improve efficiencies and reduce site waste and downtimes.

This is what you’ll actually do!

As a Multi-skilled Engineer, you will be responsible for performing planned maintenance and breakdown support to all areas of the site including all service facilities. You will gain understanding of the impact the facilities have on the running of the plant, to ensure the site runs at optimum capacity, through quality engineering, striving to ensure maximum equipment availability and minimising all downtimes.

This role provides opportunity for learning and development, and they would take an active role in project developments.

Ideally this is you!

• Relevant experience operating as a multi-skilled engineer role.
• Completed apprenticeship, with appropriate mechanical, electrical and control’s capability (Depending on ‘core’ discipline)
• Appropriate Health and Safety level of training and experience
• Ability to travel to carry out duties at other facilities within the group and customer base
• Effective communication, reporting and decision making.

What’s in it for you!

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – T&C’s dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals.

If you are ready for a new challenge and like the sound of what’s on offer then please apply now!