Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

The Village Bakery Group; Wrexham; On-site; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a family-owned Craft Bakery that values quality and innovation! As a Multi Skilled Shift Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring safety and efficiency in our manufacturing processes. Your expertise will help us maintain our award-winning products while driving continuous improvements and innovations. With a competitive salary and a rewarding package that includes professional development opportunities, this is a fantastic chance to grow your engineering career in a supportive environment. If you're passionate about engineering and eager to learn, we invite you to be part of our dedicated team in Wrexham!

Benefits

Competitive salary

Combined Pension contributions

Death in Service benefit

21 shifts holiday entitlement

Employee benefits and discounts

Free coffee machines

Professional development opportunities

Discounted staff shop

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a similar engineering role.
• Qualified electrically or mechanically with multi-skilled experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a safe environment in manufacturing facilities.
• Deliver proactive and reactive engineering maintenance.
• Support the introduction of new equipment and innovations.

Skills

Engineering experience

Multi-skilled engineering

Problem-solving

Ability to learn new machinery

Education

Electrical or Mechanical qualification

Time served apprenticeship

Job description

Due to our continued growth and success we have multiple opportunities available in our Engineering teams across our Wrexham sites.

Multi Skilled Shift Engineers

What would you get for working here?

If you have the engineering experience and skills we need then you will receive a total reward package that includes:

• A competitive salary of £47,478.83 p/a
• Combined Pension contributions (10% min)
• Death in Service (4x Gross Basic Salary)
• 21 shifts holiday entitlement
• Access to exclusive employee benefits and discounts platform hosted by Reward Gateway
• Excellent coffee machines available free-of-charge
• Professional engineering development opportunities
• Heavily discounted staff shop
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
• Great opportunity for career development.

What would you be doing?

As a Shift Engineer you will be directly contributing to this vision through your core tasks and responsibilities which will include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring there is a safe environment for those who work in, or visit, any of our manufacturing facilities.
• Effective delivery of proactive, planned-preventative engineering maintenance to ensure our existing equipment is able to meet capacity demand and efficiency targets.
• Effective delivery of reactive engineering maintenance to ensure minimal machine downtime.
• Identifying and delivering against opportunities to implement engineering changes and continuous improvement projects to maximise plant efficiencies and energy optimisation.
• Supporting the introduction of new equipment to our market-leading production facilities as part of our continued drive for innovation.
• Building effective relationships and communicating clearly with stakeholders, managing expectations where required.
• Continuous professional development through engineering or industry-specific training.
• Working with our technical team to ensure audit readiness at all times.
• Working jointly alongside our projects engineering team.
• Hours of work are continental 12.25 hour shifts on a rotating days/nights basis – 5:45 till 6:00.

What skills and qualifications would you need?

To be successful as an Engineer at the Village Bakery you will need to demonstrate the following skills, qualifications and attributes:

• Demonstrable experience within a similar engineering role.
• Qualified electrically or mechanically (or time served) with demonstrable experience to prove you are a multi-skilled engineer.
• Proven desire and ability to deliver success.
• Passion to learn new machinery and engage with machine manufacturers to build your engineering skills and competence.
• A true problem solver in all areas.
• Engineering experience in a food manufacturing environment.

So, who are we?

If you haven’t heard of us before we are a family owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award-winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products.

Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience. As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site ‘Gluten Freedom’ and state-of-the-art 'Super Bakery at Ash Road.

If you would like to join our award-winning, quality-driven team please use the ‘apply now’ link and follow the online application instructions.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon!