Site Services Engineer

Role Description

Job Purpose

• The Engineer (Site Services) maintains and operates the effluent treatment and steam raising plants, ensuring site utilities and environmental compliance.
• This role involves responding to breakdowns, performing planned maintenance, and managing general building services.
• Working on rotating shifts, the engineer contributes to asset care, aiming for optimal operational efficiency and supporting the Group Asset Care Strategy by collaborating with various site teams and external contacts.
• Responsibilities include proactive maintenance, root cause analysis, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement, while adhering to safety, quality, and hygiene standards.

Dimensions

Ensure proactive response to maintenance and breakdowns on site ensuring continuity of production and services.

To carry out maintenance activities, ensuring the manufacturing team achieve maximum compliance to the production plan, by minimising engineering downtime.

To openly share knowledge within team to increase the department flexibility.

To improve the performance and efficiency of the existing plant through continuous improvement techniques.

Be able to communicate effectively and confidently to all levels of colleagues within Princes and be capable of maintaining professional communication with clients, suppliers, contractors and customers outside the business. Ensuring both verbal and written shift handovers are carried effectively

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

Key Relationships

Site

• Site Management Team
• Section Engineers across shifts (daily)
• Manufacturing Manager and Shift Co-ordinators
• Technicians and Manufacturing Team Members (daily)

External

• Communicate with Suppliers and contractors (as required)

Principal Responsibilities

Safety, Quality, Hygiene

• Ensure that when carrying out all duties that regard to own safety and that of others is always taken into account.
• Strict adherence to all H&S work policies e.g. Lock out and Tag (Isolation of all energy sources when undertaking any work) and Use of the “Permit to Work/Enter” system.
• Ensure purchased items conform with business, legislative, moral and European directive requirements
• Personally demonstrate safe behaviour and take responsibility for the management of health & safety of engineering staff and contractors
• Carry out duties ensuring the site achieves and maintains required GMP standards
• Ensure all work conforms to statutory & safety requirements
• Ensure that risk assessments are completed and actioned.
• Support a culture that enhances behavioural awareness to reduce accidents and near misses
• Reduce customer complaints and wastage through effective maintenance and continuous improvement.

Operations Management

• With Site Services Manager establish clear objectives and priorities to enable manufacturing to meet operational targets.
• Carry out site maintenance activities and ensure GMP standards are reached.
• Responsible for recording work carried out with regards to breakdowns, repairs and modifications. Taking ownership for issues to ensure follow-up is carried out and the original issues are closed off..
• Updating of plant parameters/set points etc. as per site procedures.
• Ensure that plant and equipment perform to manufacture product efficiently to high quality standards.
• Identify own training needs and with manager agree a time plan for achieving this.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to and help implement continuous improvement, to enhance quality, safety, efficiency and waste reduction.

Communication

• Communicate as required with Planning, Manufacturing and all of site to ensure activities are implemented on time, in full, within budget.
• Communicate daily with manager to ensure planned maintenance, engineering and production priorities are considered.
• Communicate as required with Engineering Stores to ensure that spares are available for planned and breakdown maintenance.
• Ensuring that good quality (“End of Shift” & “Start of Shift”) briefings take place between shift engineers

Role Requirements

Knowledge

Effective communication

Engineering activities in a food manufacturing environment desirable

Knowledge of Steam raising boiler equipment

BOAS Certification desirable but not essential

Knowledge of how pneumatic systems work desirable

Working Knowledge of SAP desirable

Skills

Mandatory

Engineering experience desirable

Hands-on experience of equipment in a manufacturing environment desirable

Ability to read and use both imperial and metric systems

Computer Literate

Additional

Experience of working in a site services environment desirable

Food Safety qualification desirable

Confined space experience desirable

Benefits

22 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

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Wisbech

Business Area

Operations

Workplace Type

Onsite

About Princes

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.

Benefits

22 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