PPM Engineer

Engineering Team Member

If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.

Key Purpose:

Be a pro-active member of a cross functional, multi-skilled engineering team. Provide a 24/7 reactive and proactive engineering service to Middleton production site. Ensuring all assets perform to maximum production speeds with minimum interruptions and breakdowns.

Having a natural desire for continuous improvement and ability to get to the root cause of failures. Applying corrective measures required to ensure all McBride assets are maintained and repaired to a high standard.

Ensuring all equipment is fit for purpose as required and maintained to high safety standards. Working in a safe manner and inline with all Health & Safety procedures and McBride Health & Safety Policies and Procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

Work proactively within a team and independently to carry out:

• Issue and work with Permit to Work systems, Isolation Procedures and McBride Risk Assessments and Policies.
• Play an active part in Safety Walks and identifying improvements and producing/updating Risk Assessments.
• Completion of Planned Reliability Maintenance Inspections and Tasks to a high standard
• Reactive maintenance and fault finding. Using practical problem solving skills to provide a timely fix. Ensuring production losses are minimal and workaround solutions are provided when required.
• Engage in Lean Maintenance Improvement Initiatives using CI and Lean techniques. Play an active role in CI projects taking the lead where appropriate.
• Use CMMS system to plan work. Including booking & requisitioning of spare parts, accurately recording completed work, follow up work, along with the results and findings of reliability maintenance tasks;
• Ensure communication is clear and consistent to all team members, management and across shifts – including all external customers such as Production, Quality and H&S,
• Collaborate with all site personnel to ensure site minimal disruption to production output.
• To assist with training new and existing staff members on specialist skills and experience to effectively benefit the team's growth.
• Working alongside third party contractors on R&M and the implementation of new assets to site, including commissioning.
• Produce technical documentation and reports. Including SOPs and Risk Assessments.
• Support TPM autonomous maintenance and improve ways of working within the internal and external team
• Have responsibility within the Emergency Evacuation plan to carry out the Engineering Investigation Team Role.
• Work a fully flexible rota which will include overtime and flexible working requirements

Key Result Areas:

OEE improvements and reduction in downtime Labour utilisation Pro-active v Reactive Maintenance PPM completion CI improvements Changeover time and start ups Near Miss Raise and Close % Corrective action completion Audit compliance for workshops and Ways of Working Compliance to H&S audits and Safe Systems of Work

Behavioural Competencies / Personal Characteristics:

(Experience and skills needed to do the job)

• Able to handling complexity and a high pressure work environment.
• Able to work autonomously whilst effectively prioritising and adapting to variable workload.
• Good Communicator. Both written and verbal. Able to produce technical and non-technical report.
• Customer Orientated.
• Team player
• Highly responsible and conscientious
• Reliable and flexible with strong work ethic.
• Punctual, presentable and with good attendance.
• Pro-active and can do attitude required.
• Strong desire to learn and improve own skills.

Technical Competencies & Qualifications:

(Experience and skills needed to do the job)

• You should have a minimum of 3 years' experience working on high volume production automated machinery with knowledge of pneumatic, hydraulic and electrical control systems whilst carrying out and preparing routine maintenance programs.
• You should hold a time served apprenticeship or a HNC/ONC in an Electrical/Mechanical Engineering background
• You should have strong Multi-Skilled Electrical or Mechanical Maintenance fault finding capabilities.
• Previous experience of a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer within a similar FMCG environment.
• Good knowledge of MS Office and general PC skills
• Able to read both electrical and mechanical drawings
• Able to fault find and basic PLC programming advantageous.

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