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Position Title: Chargehand
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43747
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About The Role
We’re looking for a hands-on Maintenance Chargehand to lead and coordinate planned and reactive maintenance activity across our manufacturing site.
Reporting to the Maintenance Leader, you’ll provide front-line leadership to a team of skilled craftspeople, ensuring work is planned, prioritised and completed safely, efficiently and to a high standard. You’ll work closely with Production, Plant Management, contractors and suppliers to keep plant and equipment reliable and support continuous improvement.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead, organise and prioritise planned and unplanned maintenance activity during your shift.
- Support, motivate and develop a team of hourly paid engineering craftspeople, ensuring they have the resources and capability to deliver an excellent service.
- Communicate daily priorities, review distributed work and agree plans, targets and performance measures with the Maintenance Leader.
- Respond to maintenance requests, create work orders and provide technical support to tradespeople.
- Coordinate contractor activity, including site inductions and checking risk assessments and method statements.
- Partner with Production and other site functions to maintain standards and strengthen working relationships.
- Investigate equipment-efficiency issues, identify root causes and implement practical solutions.
- Support site maintenance excellence and lean-manufacturing initiatives.
- Maintain the reliability and condition of plant and equipment in your designated area, escalating requirements appropriately.
- Coordinate maintenance-related change activity and record accurate, detailed completion feedback in the CMMS each day.
- Champion safe working practices and ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
- At least five years’ experience in a maintenance environment.
- Practical multi-skilled engineering experience, including knowledge of relevant engineering legislation.
- Experience leading people, with the confidence to organise, support and motivate a team.
- City & Guilds Part 3, ONC or equivalent qualification in a multi-skilled discipline.
- NVQ Level 2/3, or equivalent, in a multi-skilled engineering discipline.
- Strong knowledge of engineering fundamentals and modern maintenance techniques.
- A recognised health and safety qualification, such as IOSH.
- Managing Safely and Intermediate Food Hygiene training.
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach, with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Comfortable using Microsoft Office and digital maintenance-management systems.
- Experience of lean manufacturing maintenance practices and an HNC or equivalent would be advantageous.
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Benefits Of The Role
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods, you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. Alongside a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including:
- An excellent salary sacrifice pension scheme where we'll contribute double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your salary
- 25 days' annual leave from day one plus bank holidays (increasing with service), giving you plenty of time to recharge with the opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday per year
- Life insurance cover providing peace of mind for you and your family
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, because the moments that matter outside of work matter to us too
- Medicash health cash plan, helping you claim money back on everyday healthcare costs, with access to a virtual GP and wellbeing support
- TELUS Health employee and family assistance programme offering full wellbeing support - including a 24/7 confidential counselling line, legal and financial guidance, and a range of employee discounts.
- Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme
- A paid 'Chips In' Volunteering Day, giving you the opportunity to support projects that make a positive impact in our communities
And because you're joining a global business, your career opportunities don't stop at the factory gate. Whether you're looking to deepen your expertise, step into leadership, or even explore opportunities internationally, we'll support your growth. With ambitious plans for the future, there's plenty of scope to develop your career with us.
About The Team
You’ll be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together our small, but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds.
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Leadership Principles
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
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Job Family: Engineering & Technical
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd
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