Multi Skilled Shift Engineer

William Jackson Food Group; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK food manufacturer is seeking a Multi Skilled Shift Engineer located in Hull. The successful candidate will provide maintenance support, ensuring all assets are maintained safely and efficiently. Responsibilities include compliance with health and safety policies, performing reactive and preventative maintenance, and fostering a pro-active work environment. This role offers competitive pay and various benefits including holiday, pension, and employee discounts.

Benefits

Competitive hourly rate

6.6 weeks holiday

Stakeholder pension

Free bread allowance

Wellbeing and Rewards Platform

Exclusive discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Support grants for children's University fees

Qualifications

• Strong background in general engineering and maintenance practices.
• Ability to work shifts, including nights and weekends.
• Experience in food safety management is critical.

Responsibilities

• Provide efficient response to plant incidents and breakdowns.
• Perform planned preventative maintenance duties.
• Ensure compliance with Safety, Health and Environmental requirements.

Skills

Proactive teamwork

Problem-solving

Safety compliance

Multi-skilled engineering

Education

Qualified in relevant engineering discipline

Job description

Job title: Multi Skilled Shift Engineer

Location: Hull

About Jacksons

Jacksons is part of William Jackson Food Group, a sixth-generation family business founded by William Jackson when he opened his first shop in Hull in September 1851. Today we have a portfolio of five food businesses in distinct, yet complimentary market areas, employing over 2,000 people.

We have occupied the current site in Hull since 1907 and we now have 3 bread plants in our main bakery. We recently developed a second bakery, also at our site in Hull, which specialises in premium quality roll production. We specialise in the supply of bread and other carriers to the sandwich manufacturers, foodservice and export channels, and in 2012 we launched our consumer facing brand “Jackson’s of Yorkshire”.

We opened a brand-new site in Corby, Northamptonshire – one of the largest investments our Group has ever made – and this will allow us to realise our ambition of being the best at what we do. 2025 is an exciting time to join us – make this year a toast to you and apply now!

What’s involved?

To provide asset maintenance support to the operation of the business ensuring that all assets are managed to a safe and reliable level of performance.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Objectives

• In line with the Company’s goals and strategy
• Provide efficient reactive response to all plant incident and breakdowns
• Perform planned preventative maintenance duties on assets and services to increase uptime, maintainability and performance.
• To help deliver operational performance Improvements identified thorough key measures by delivering continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• To comply with Safety, Health and Environmental requirements within the business in line with the Health & Safety Policy and Procedures, e.g. Work Instructions, Risk Assessments and Safe Systems.
• To ensure a high standard of engineering maintenance support to production and all other functions within the business, thus ensuring a high performance of all equipment and systems.
• To develop safe behaviour and ensure a clean as you go policy is adhered to.
• To ensure food safety is always a priority in all works carried out and any potential food safety issue is addressed immediately.
• To use a Continuous Improvement process to develop and improve all aspects within your control.
• To adhere to all Jacksons Bakery processes and procedures.
• To maintain accurate and timely records of all work carried out. This will include correct and detailed information on handover between shifts.
• To demonstrate Jacksons Bakery values and beliefs through your standard of work, communication and behaviour.

General Requirements

• To be a pro-active member of the team, working as part of that team, maintaining Company standards and influencing policy.
• To set and achieve high personal standards of competence.
• Share knowledge and expertise with other Shift Engineers.
• Qualified in relevant engineering discipline and multi-skilled to appropriate level.
• To be capable of solving problems wherever practically possible.
• To use knowledge to design out problems and improve engineering systems and procedures.
• Attend training as required to meet mandatory business requirements.
• Building working relationships
• To involve operators in problem solving to develop / enhance their ownership.
• Understand requirements of internal customers (eg. operations).
• To support problem solving programs lead by others.
• To share knowledge with trainers to enable operators to build capability.

Health & Safety

• To have an excellent personal health & safety record and act to ensure safety of others.
• To inform appropriate persons of potential safety issues and recommend corrective action needed.
• To work towards a safe culture by developing safe behaviour.
• To ensure that all staff, visitors and contractors comply with the Jacksons Bakery Health & Safety policy at all times.
• Challenge unsafe behaviours demonstrated by employees or contractors.

Administration

• To ensure work records are filled in promptly and accurately and outstanding issues highlighted.
• To be able to demonstrate effective use of time through the CMMS.
• To use maintenance records to identify failure patterns and flag issues / solutions.
• To actively be involved in improving CMMS data collection methods and standards.
• To understand the value of plant history information. Support and contribute to Departmental systems improvements.
• All reasonable duties that are within your capabilities and do not compromise safety or other company requirements.
• Work in line with our Jacksons Company Values.

Job commitments

Hull – Derringham Street

Shift pattern working days/nights/weekends – 40 hours per week

Why Jacksons?

In return for your commitment as a Multi Skilled Shift Engineer with us you will receive:

• Competitive hourly rate paid every 4 weeks.
• 6.6 weeks holiday, increasing to 7 weeks with 5 years’ continuous service.
• Stakeholder pension with generous employer contributions.
• Free bread allowance
• WJFG Wellbeing and Rewards Platform
• Online benefits portal providing exclusive discounts with over 900 retailers.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Support grants available for colleagues’ children attending University.