Electrical Engineer (Night Shift)

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.

Please note: this is a Night shift role Monday-Thursday 21:48 - 06:00 Friday 17:58 - 00:00

Job Purpose:
Reporting to a Glasgow shift lead and forming part of a multi skilled shift maintenance team, the post holder will be required to maintain equipment and repair faults as directed.

Shift pattern:
 

• Phase 1: Rotating Day shift up to 12 weeks training.
• Phase 2: Working Night Shift pattern. Monday-Thursday 21:48 - 06:00 Friday 17:58 - 00:00

Site equipment includes such as:

• Syrup Room
• Canning production lines with the capacity for producing over 60000 units per hour.
• Maintaining equipment, Kisters, Depalletiser, Palletisers.
• Onsite Services which include Boilers, Compressors.

 Principle Accountabilities:
 

• Undertake the role in accordance with health, safety, environmental, food hygiene and quality requirements.
• Respond promptly to breakdowns to minimise downtime and the associated costs.
• Carry out fault finding on a diverse range of automated equipment.
• Carry out identified modifications and improvements.
• Implement and support planned preventative maintenance schemes.
• Complete maintenance schedules and engage in operational improvements.
• Actively support continuous improvement projects and activities by challenging existing practices and making recommendations for improvements.
• Communicate with the relevant departments on breakdown and maintenance progress.
• Complete all relevant reports and accurately maintain in engineering CMMS records.
• Monitor the efficiency of equipment and identify problem areas to proactively implement improvements.
• Ensure the engineering spares store records are updated when parts and materials are used.
• Maintain all work areas to the required 5S standards.
• Ensure that you record and communicate any adjustments to production equipment.
• Be fully competent in a wide range of machine and equipment operating and cleaning procedures.
• Review daily achievement of targets and report variances.
• Resolve all operational problems on the lines. Carry out fault diagnosis and first line repairs where task competent to do so inc. lubrication, breakdown repair, changeover and running adjustments.
• Carry out effective handovers by communicating key information to other colleagues.
• Carry out new or additional tasks, projects, trials, and other reasonable duties in conjunction with colleagues in your area of work.

These are the key daily tasks, not a comprehensive list of all tasks undertaken by the job holder.  Flexibility is required by the business & this will be agreed with the individual’s line manager.
 

Successful candidate must have:
 

• Relevant Electrical Engineering Qualifications including a time served apprenticeship 
• Relevant Engineering experience in FMCG
• Ability to work alone and part of a team
• Excellent communication skills with colleagues of all levels
• Experience in using CMMS e.g.  SAP
• Experience in Root Cause Analysis tools/ problem solving methodology.
• To maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to