Electrical Engineer

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.

Job Purpose:

Reporting to an 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.

Hours: 
Mon – Thursday 0548 – 1400 / 1348 – 2200
Friday 0548 – 1200 / 1148 – 1800.
39 hours per week

Dimensions: 

•    Phase 1 Rotating Day shift up to 12 weeks training.
•    Phase 2 : Working Night Shift pattern.
•    Frontline operational technical support to ensure optimal manufacturing reliability.
•    Supporting site and group projects on initiatives.

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.

To maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to

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.

Benefits

25 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
Corporate Incentive Scheme (company performance based)