Engineering Manager
- Employer
- Refresco
- Location
- Pontefract, West Yorkshire
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 16 Sep 2019
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Engineering
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
General description of role:
Working in collaboration with the plant factory management, lead the engineering functional agenda at a scale manufacturing site with specific accountability for the delivery and continuous improvement of the following areas; technical elements of the Safety agenda, maintenance and equipment improvements, facilities management, budgetary control and leadership and development of the engineering teams.
To deliver the department KPI’s in respect to equipment performance, reliability and breakdown, maintenance completion, safety, attendance, budgetary performance.
The role works effectively with other business functions to ensure the Plant leadership strategic goals are delivered in the short, medium and long term.
The Site Engineering Manager is entrepreneural, committed to developing high performing teams and at the same time acts as a role model by demostrating Refresco’s core values and behaviours.
Key responsibilities of the role:
- Safety & Compliance (technical elements) delivery & improvement
- Adherence to all internal and external safety standards (Refresco HS Mgt System, RMS, Insurance inspections, Legionella, Statutory legislation etc)
- Continuous improvement of line performance through the RCA and elimination of recurrent reliability issues
- Development & implementation of the site maintenance strategy
- Manage and control the delivery of an R&M budget of c£2Mn and management and optimisation of the engineering stores
- Support Refresco CAPEX roadmap development and delivery to mitigate obsolescence, essential replacement and safety improvement issues.
- Identification of step change improvement opportunities in partnership with the plant leadership teams.
- Development and delivery of the facilities agenda
- Energy & utilities management & improvement
- Leadership, organisation and development of the engineering team
- Development of site recruitment roadmap and apprentice training programme to mitigate foreseeable vacancies.
- Definition and implementation of equipment standards.
- Compliance to functional processes & procedures SAP PM, Escalation, etc)
- Delivery of agreed KPIs
- Profile job holder
- Appropriate Technical Qualification (BTEC HNC or Engineering degree)
- Completion of a recognised Apprenticeship
- Broad TPM Understanding
- IT literate – Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Good analytical and numeric ability
- IOSH qualification (Preferred)
- Intermediate Food Hygiene
- SAP user / Super-user
- Previous experience of working within a similar FMCG manufacturing / factory engineering department
- Strong interpersonal and developed communication skills (coaching & mentoring).
- Decisive, pro-active, self-motivated and assertive
Company
Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's our vision. So, yes, it's safe to say we're ambitious. We're thirsty for more, constantly looking to the future. To new products, new services, new markets, new customers. Through our people applying our core values of ‘Responsible’, ‘Entrepreneurial’, ‘Excellent’, ‘Market Driven’ and ‘Innovative’ we have grown substantially since 1999 and we will continue to be successful.
Refresco is the world’s largest independent bottler soft drinks and fruit juices for retailers and branded customers. With production in Europe, North America and Mexico our global sourcing and local R&D capabilities offer an almost unlimited variety of products, manufactured to customer specifications and requirements.
Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from 100% fruit juices, vegetable juices, nectars, water and water +, CSD (carbonated soft drinks), energy and sports drinks, seasonal and speciality drinks and RTD (ready to drink) tea carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans and glass.
In addition to the efficiency of our bottling processes, we can also provide our customers with total supply chain solutions – from planning and sourcing of raw materials and packaging through to warehousing and transportation.
We focus on providing high customer service levels as well as core innovations through the introduction of new packages, flavours and varieties of soft drinks and fruit juices. In (co-)designing new products, we share extensive knowledge of market trends, local consumer preferences, product formulas, raw materials, and new production technologies.
We are able to develop new concepts and bring these to market in an extremely short time frame.
Our head office is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In January 2018 Refresco announced completion of the acquisition of the bottling activities of Cott Beverages.
Refresco Beverages UK
In the UK, Refresco Beverages UK has our headquarters in Kegworth, Derbyshire, employs 1800 people across 6 sites (Bridgwater, Kegworth, Nelson, Bondgate, Wrexham & Macduff). We work with all the leading UK retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison's, Sainsbury, ALDI and Lidl to produce their private labels and with branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. We have packaging capability in Cartons, PET, Aseptic PET and Cans.
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