Shift Engineer - Electrical

Northampton Business Directory; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pet food manufacturer in Crick is seeking an experienced Shift Engineer. The role involves maintaining safe engineering operations and performing maintenance on equipment while ensuring compliance with safety standards. Ideal candidates will have qualifications in electrical and mechanical engineering and experience using CMMS. This full-time position offers a competitive salary, overtime opportunities, and a range of benefits including enhanced maternity/paternity leave and a pension plan.

Benefits

Overtime

Enhanced maternity/paternity/pawturnity

Pension: NEST Employee contributions 4.5% / Employer contribution 3.5%

Free parking

Free electric car charging

Spotify or Netflix subscription

Medicash Plan

Discounted products & free hot drinks

Flexible benefits including discounted pet food

Qualifications

• Qualified or time served in Electrical and Mechanical engineering disciplines.
• Experienced in the use and operation of CMMS.
• Reliability Management expertise (such as FMECA, RCM, Tribology, CBM, TPM).
• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• NEBOSH with a sound knowledge of behavioural safety at a site level - desirable.
• Legionella and HACCP awareness - desirable.
• Experience in FMCG - desirable.

Responsibilities

• Perform planned and predictive maintenance of equipment and ad hoc repairs.
• Assess the need for spares and ensure stock levels are adequate.
• Ensure safety during servicing and maintenance activities.
• Conduct root cause analysis on breakdowns to prevent re-occurrence.
• Support the energy reduction and sustainability agenda.
• Participate in daily and weekly review sessions to improve site operations.

Job description

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Shift Engineer with electrical biasto join our Engineering team, based in our factory in Crick, Northampton.

On Offer:

• Annual salary of £59,981
• 42 hours per week, 4 on 4 off (Days and Nights 12 hour shifts on rotation)
• Hourly rate with overtime - Paid monthly

The Company

IPN is an innovative, well-established, and award-winning pet food manufacturer, employing over 850 people across our 4 UK manufacturing sites. Our family of brands include Harringtons, Wagg, Barking Heads & Meowing Heads, AATU, Blink, Butchers, Classic Cat and a selection of partner brands that trust us to produce food on their behalf. Our kitchens in Thirsk, Kinmel and Crick produce dry, wet, and baked foods which are enjoyed by dogs and cats all over the world.

The Role

To establish and maintain safe, compliant and effective engineering operations that continually develop the site's asset base by following the Engineering strategy for proactive work whilst responding to breakdowns.

Key Responsibilities - Shift Engineer:

• Perform planned and predictive maintenance of equipment and complete ad hoc repairs in a timely manner and by prioritising works in line with site priorities to ensure that efficient production is maintained
• Assessing the need for spares by ensuring that the critical spares and spares list is up to date and stock is at the required levels Escalate any issues in a timely manner to the Engineering manager
• Ensuring a safe environment by conducting all servicing and maintenance activities with minimal risk to employees, products and equipment. Champion safety
• Using route cause analysis on breakdowns to identify actions and drive completion of actions to prevent re-occurrence
• Support the energy reduction and sustainability agenda to reduce environmental impacts across the site by ensuring all actions are completed
• Participate in daily and weekly review sessions to drive the improvement throughout the site.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications - Shift Engineer

• Qualified or time served in Electrical and Mechanical engineering disciplines
• Experienced in the use and operation of CMMS
• Reliability Management expertise (such as FMECA, RCM, Tribology, CBM, TPM)
• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• NEBOSH with a sound knowledge of behavioural safety at a site level - desirable
• Legionella and HACCP awareness - desirable
• Experience in FMCG - desirable

Benefits:

• Overtime
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/pawturnity
• Pension: NESTEmployee contributions 4.5% / Employer contribution 3.5% - salary sacrifice
• Other Benefits:Free parking, free electric car charging, Spotify or Netflix subscription, Hertility, discounted products & free hot drinks.
• Medicash Plan
• You are also able to choose a non-contractual flexible benefits, such as being able to purchase heavily discounted pet food.