Princes Group
Site Services Engineer
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Role Description
Job Purpose:
The Engineer (Site Services) maintains and operates the effluent treatment and steam raising plants, ensuring site utilities and environmental compliance. This role involves responding to breakdowns, performing planned maintenance, and managing general building services. Working on rotating shifts, the engineer contributes to asset care, aiming for optimal operational efficiency and supporting the Group Asset Care Strategy by collaborating with various site teams and external contacts. Responsibilities include proactive maintenance, root cause analysis, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement, while adhering to safety, quality, and hygiene standards.
Dimensions:
- Ensure proactive response to maintenance and breakdowns on site ensuring continuity of production and services.
- To carry out maintenance activities, ensuring the manufacturing team achieve maximum compliance to the production plan, by minimising engineering downtime.
- To openly share knowledge within the team to increase the department flexibility.
- To improve the performance and efficiency of the existing plant through continuous improvement techniques.
- Be able to communicate effectively and confidently to all levels of colleagues within Princes and be capable of maintaining professional communication with clients, suppliers, contractors, and customers outside the business. Ensuring both verbal and written shift handovers are carried out effectively.
- To maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity, and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.
Key Relationships:
Site
- Site Management Team
- Section Engineers across shifts (daily)
- Manufacturing Manager and Shift Co-ordinators
- Technicians and Manufacturing Team Members (daily)
External
- Communicate with Suppliers and contractors (as required)
Principal Responsibilities
Safety, Quality, Hygiene
- Ensure that when carrying out all duties that regard to own safety and that of others is always taken into account.
- Strict adherence to all H&S work policies e.g. Lock out and Tag (Isolation of all energy sources when undertaking any work) and Use of the “Permit to Work/Enter” system.
- Ensure purchased items conform with business, legislative, moral, and European directive requirements.
- Personally demonstrate safe behaviour and take responsibility for the management of health & safety of engineering staff and contractors.
- Carry out duties ensuring the site achieves and maintains required GMP standards.
- Ensure all work conforms to statutory & safety requirements.
- Ensure that risk assessments are completed and actioned.
- Support a culture that enhances behavioural awareness to reduce accidents and near misses.
- Reduce customer complaints and wastage through effective maintenance and continuous improvement.
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Operations Management
- With Site Services Manager establish clear objectives and priorities to enable manufacturing to meet operational targets.
- Carry out site maintenance activities and ensure GMP standards are reached.
- Responsible for recording work carried out with regards to breakdowns, repairs, and modifications. Taking ownership for issues to ensure follow-up is carried out and the original issues are closed off.
- Updating of plant parameters/set points etc. as per site procedures.
- Ensure that plant and equipment perform to manufacture product efficiently to high quality standards.
- Identify own training needs and with manager agree a time plan for achieving this.
Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to and help implement continuous improvement, to enhance quality, safety, efficiency, and waste reduction.
Communication
- Communicate as required with Planning, Manufacturing, and all of site to ensure activities are implemented on time, in full, within budget.
- Communicate daily with manager to ensure planned maintenance, engineering, and production priorities are considered.
- Communicate as required with Engineering Stores to ensure that spares are available for planned and breakdown maintenance.
- Ensuring that good quality (“End of Shift” & “Start of Shift”) briefings take place between shift engineers.
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Role Requirements
Knowledge
- Effective communication
- Engineering activities in a food manufacturing environment desirable
- Knowledge of Steam raising boiler equipment
- BOAS Certification desirable but not essential
- Knowledge of how pneumatic systems work desirable
- Working Knowledge of SAP desirable
Skills
Mandatory
- Engineering experience desirable
- Hands-on experience of equipment in a manufacturing environment desirable
- Ability to read and use both imperial and metric systems
- Computer Literate
Additional
- Experience of working in a site services environment desirable
- Food Safety qualification desirable
- Confined space experience desirable
Benefits
- 22 Days Annual Leave
- 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
- Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days
- Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
- Critical Illness Cover
- Learning & Development Opportunities
Country United Kingdom
Location Wisbech
Business Area Operations
Workplace Type Onsite
About Princes
The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France, and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.
Benefits
- 22 Days Annual Leave
- 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
- Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days
- Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
- Critical Illness Cover
- Learning & Development Opportunities
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