Food Production jobs in United Kingdom

As Technician Manager, you are responsible for the day-to-day engineering activities and management of the Shift Technicians running across 3 shifts, with a team of up to 10 engineers reporting to you. Your focus will be ensuring that the reactive and corrective maintenance complies with all standards and is completed in a timely and efficient manner. This is a key role supporting the achievement of primary site KPIs.

You will be working alongside the Maintenance Leader who is responsible for Preventative maintenance, and reporting to the Engineering manager. In this respect you will coordinate closely as an engineering management team to achieve improvement across the boards.

Our site in Cotes Park is producing professional cleaning chemicals. Naturally, fast, accurate and thorough repairs and corrective maintenance are critical to our success.

Driving operational performance of Safety, Quality, Speed, and Cost KPIs in their area and supporting the Engineering Manager.

Complete management and scheduling of a team of 10 Technicians, ensuring key activities are delegated and the progress is monitored and tracked.

Attending daily meetings with a cross-functional team.

Support the production team in prioritising issues and best utilising the team to drive performance improvement.

Playing a key role in the introduction of all new machinery and technologies to site and improvement of production line effectiveness by use of breakdown investigations.

Ensuring outstanding Health and Safety compliance, along with meeting local legislation and Good Manufacturing Practices.

Active participation in site improvement processes.

Coaching problem-solving tools such as 3Qs, 5 Why's, and ensuring “root-cause” investigation and correction.

Ensuring complete investigations in relation to HSE / Quality related incidents.

A few years’ previous management experience in a similar position.

Electrical and / or Mechanical qualifications C&G, NVQ / ONC / HNC.

Previous experience within a Manufacturing Industry – Various Industries considered : Packaging, Food, FMCG or Maintenance environment preferred.

Good Understanding of general manufacturing Utilities Plant Equipment (Steam Boilers, Compressed air Plant , Water treatment Plant)

Awareness of work-place and chemical hazards with the associated regulations is desirable.

Sound Knowledge of MS packages including Word and Excel.

Annual leave : 25 days (Increases with Length of Service)

Accident & Life Insurance : 1 x annual salary to 4 x annual salary (Linked to Employee Pension contribution %)

Employer contribution to pension insurance (Employee 3% & Employer 5% or Employee 4% & Employer 6%)

Cycle to Work Scheme

PerkBox : Employee Discount and Wellbeing Platform

We are relentlessly pursuing our purpose to go beyond clean to take care of what’s precious. In today’s world of increasing resource scarcity – including water, energy, materials, and labour – we need to achieve more with less for the well-being of today’s generations and for future generations.

We stand behind every committed leader and employee of our customers, across all levels of the organisation. We stand with the buyer, the chef, the building service contractor, the food processing manager, the nurse, the doctor, dairy processor, the hotel cleaner, head teacher, the store manager and many more who understand that hygiene and infection prevention are imperative to their business, their customers, their reputation, and the environment.

Our determination to take care of the precious resources on our planet and our genuine care for our people, customers, and the environment set us apart. Over the course of 100 years, we have continued to refine our suite of solutions, which combines patented chemicals, dosing and dispensing equipment, cleaning machines, services, and digital analysis.

• Note : Offer of employment will remain provisional until we have received the following which are satisfactory to us : confirmation of your right to work in the UK; Drivers Licence and Disclosure and Barring check (where applicable).