Shift Engineer

N Brown; Oldham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)

Annual bonus scheme

Enhanced maternity and adoption leave

Company pension with up to 8% N Brown

Mental Health support and wellbeing

Job summary

N Brown is seeking a Senior Shift Engineer to join our Supply Chain team in the UK. You will manage the engineering maintenance engineers and support the maintenance team leader, performing reactive, predictive and planned maintenance on automated equipment across sites.

You will lead, train, and motivate the team, oversee spares and contracts, and ensure all health and safety procedures are followed to minimise downtime and disruption.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in an engineering role involving automated equipment.
• Experience leading maintenance engineers or contractors.
• Proven ability to train and certify teams in Health & Safety.
• Hands-on approach to support engineers on site when needed.

Responsibilities

• Assist Team Leader to ensure the shift team are trained and certified in line with Health & Safety requirements.
• Complete daily planned and routine work; address breakdowns safely to minimise downtime.
• Assist in managing spares, stores procedures and procurement system usage.
• Lead, motivate and discipline the maintenance team and apprentices against KPIs.
• Set up and manage external contracts; coordinate with procurement and Team Leader.

Skills

Team leadership

Maintenance engineering

Automated equipment

Shift supervision

Education

Full Engineering Apprenticeship

Job description

We're looking for an Senior Shift Engineer to join our Supply Chain team As a Senior Shift Engineer you'll manage the engineering maintenance engineers and support the maintenance team leader in order to provide shift support in line with departmental business objectives, performing reactive, predictive, and planned maintenance on all sites engineering areas of responsibility and automation equipment.

Shift pattern

• Shift pattern: You'll work an average of 42 hours a week -Panama Shift Pattern
• What will you do as a Senior Shift Engineer at N Brown?
• You’ll assist the Team Leader to Ensure that the engineering shift team are adequately trained and certified in order that they can perform their daily tasks in accordance with Health & Safety requirements.
• You’ll ensure all daily planned and routine work is completed and to ensure that all breakdowns are attended to and rectified in a line with departmental objectives in a safe manner, causing minimum downtime and preventing business disruption.
• You’ll assist the Team Leader to Ensure recommended and additional spares where required are in the stores, recording and managing spares usage in line with stores procedures and the purchasing system.
• You’ll assist the Team Leader to Effectively lead, motivate, and discipline the team of maintenance engineers, and apprentices, against departmental responsibilities, objectives and KPI, s (Key performance indicators).
• You’ll maintain a hands‑on approach when required, to assist the engineers on specific tasks or to cover staff shortages.
• You’ll promote continuous improvements and change through own initiatives. -Actively promote Health and Safety within the team ensuring standard activities have been assessed and have SOP, S written for them. (Standard operating procedures.)
• You’ll maintain a sufficiently hands on role to ensure technical and practical help is provided when necessary.
• You’ll ensure all relevant H&S regulations and safe systems of work are adhered to.
• Issue and manage permit to works in line with procedures when the Team leader is not present.
• You’ll set-up and run external contracts working with procurement and the Team Leader to support activities in specialist areas, liaising with such contractors when they attend site as necessary.
• You’ll be a technically competent and qualified engineering professional is required to understand the engineering service requirements for automated equipment.
• You’ll have a minimum of 5 years gained within an engineering role involving automated equipment. Experience of managing teams and/or contractors.
• You’ll have a full Engineering Apprenticeship, able to effectively manage a team of engineers against departmental/business objectives.

N Brown is a leading UK digital retail platform for clothing, footwear, home and technology, headquartered in Manchester and employing over 1,000 people nationwide. Through our strategic retail brands JD Williams, Jacamo and Simply Be and our unique payments offering, we exist to champion inclusivity and serve the underserved. Our customers are our passion, and we take great pride in delivering products that ensure they can look and feel amazing, without compromising on choice, value and accessibility.

We're committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by 'By championing inclusion, N Brown will become the UK's most loved and trusted consumer platform, shaping the future of financial empowerment and personal expression'. 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are, therefore, at the heart of our culture. In May 2024 we were delighted to be named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. We work hard to create a happy and inclusive culture for everyone and we're so proud to have made this list - as voted for by our very own colleagues!

Benefits

• 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)
• Annual bonus scheme
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
• Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
• Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
• A range of financial wellbeing support
• Stream - a financial wellbeing tool that helps you track your pay, access earnings early and manage your money with confidence
• Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
• Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
• Life Assurance
• Paid volunteer time - all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of our choice

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