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Maintenance Technician (Manufacturing)

Employer
Burtons Biscuits Company
Location
Llantarnam, Cwmbran
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
26 May 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Engineering, Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Maintenance Technician (Manufacturing)

Position: Weekend Servicing Technician

Location: Llantarnam, Torfean, Wales

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Shift Pattern: Week 1: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday; Week 2, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Hours: 39 hours per week, 06:00 to 16:00 (15:00 finish on a Friday though)

Salary: £Competitive

Who Are We?

At Burton’s Biscuits Company we are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits! Our Vision is to have a shared Pride and Passion for baking sensational biscuits & snacks that delight our consumers, shoppers and our customers. We’re the only major biscuit manufacturer in the UK to focus solely on biscuits, making us one of the key players in the market. We employ circa 1,800 people around the UK, with the majority of our workforce being based at our three main manufacturing facilities in Llantarnam, Edinburgh and Blackpool. Our head office is based in St. Albans and a subsidiary office is located in Blackpool.

We had an amazing 2018, which has included seeing Wagon Wheels featured on the Great British Bake Off and our Llantarnam site featuring on ITV4 as part of their documentary 'Made in Britain'. Along with having amazing brands, we've have secured a long term agreement to allow us to manufacturing a number of Mars Biscuit branded products, we are also forming key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector.

In order to ensure we can continue to make fantastic biscuits, and to help us this amazing journey we are proud to announce that we have completed the acquisition of a premium sweet and savoury biscuit manufacturer Thomas Fudge’s. This will only increase our baking capabilities across a number of brand new sweet & savoury categories

What are we all about?

Here at Burton’s Biscuit Company we pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. Our goal is to support our team in achieving their career goals. We do this by providing a working environment that offers opportunity, support, scope and pace of change. Our culture is the foundation of our business. We are fast paced, agile and fun.

Why work as part of our team?

We are looking for a self-motivated and dedicated Weekend Servicing Technician in our Engineering Department, who are seeking a challenging and rewarding role at the heart of our business at our Llantarnam manufacturing site. Successful individuals will be provide a timely and effective planned maintenance service to our customer in production whilst ensuring safety, quality and hygiene standards are met. The hours of work are 39 per week covering 4 days from Thursday to Monday.

What does your typical day look like?

Carry out planned maintenance activities as scheduled by the maintenance plan contained within the CMM. Attend and repair breakdowns as required, and report all actions carried out and any further actions required, via the CMMS.

Be proactive in preventing equipment failures and improving overall equipment performance by generating and implementing ideas and modifications. Maintain and help improve health and safety standards and ensure that staff work in a safe environment by eliminating, minimising and controlling risks to themselves and others.

Undertake training as required to further enhance individual’s skills and knowledge so that the level of support to the front-line operations remains effective and efficient.

Train others so that they are able to carry out their expected work duties to the required standards. Identify performance issues and implement appropriate and pragmatic solutions through the use of problem-solving skills, tools and techniques. In consultation with the appropriate personnel, be able to correctly prioritise the work load for the overall benefit of the site performance.

What are the key ingredients needed for the role?

Time-served Mechanical (and Electrical if Dual Skilled). Minimum of ONC or equivalent in relevant subject areas.

You may have experience of the following: Weekend Service Technician, Service Technician, Maintenance Technician, Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, Production Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, etc.

Company

Who Are Burtons Biscuits?

We are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Paterson Shortbread, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!

‘We are a more successful and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves’.

At Burton’s we believe in the power of being authentic, being entrepreneurial and being supportive to each other to meet our common goals…oh and did we mention having fun?!

Understanding our customers is crucial to our success, so having a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers is vital.

As a business we are committed to the continuous improvement of diversity and equality in the workplace and we welcome talented individuals from all backgrounds who share our Pride and Passion for Baking Great Biscuits and snacks.

Along with having amazing brands, we have secured long term agreements to allow us to manufacture a number of sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Cathedral City & Marmite branded products. We also have several key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector and our proud of the amazing biscuits we bake for our customers and consumers.

Within our Burton’s group, we have 6 bakery sites across the UK, located in Blackpool, Livingston, Edinburgh, Dorset, Isle of Arran and Llantarnam, with our head office in St Albans.   In total we employ circa 2,100 people around across our locations.

Burton’s Biscuits is owned by Ferrero and we are proud to be part of such a fantastic and successful business.  The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 Countries and their products are sold in over 170 Countries.  We are delighted to be part of the Ferrero group which represents over 377,000 employees across the world and has a consolidated turnover of €12.3 billion (2020).

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Burtons Biscuit Company
LLANTARNAM
Cwmbran
Torfaen
NP44 3YL
GB

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