Engineering Shift Manager

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Join Our Engineering Team at The Compleat Food Group!

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join our brilliant team in Market Drayton!

At The Compleat Food Group we never just make food. We make food to feel good, taste good and do good for everyone.

Our aim is to delight our customers and consumers every day, creating the best possible foods for shoppers needs and budgets.

Our ability to drive category growth for our customers is through our focus on understanding our consumers and our relentless pursuit of innovation - we have the courage to think differently.

We work at the correct pace to make clear decisions and deliver on our commitments on time every time. Quality is at the heart of everything we do, always. We take in pride in everything we produce.

We value everybody who works in our organisation. Everyone is treated with respect and encouraged to thrive and develop. Together we will become number one for culture.

This is a hands-on role to cover all the Maintenance Engineering activities on shift and assist the coordination and completion of the Planned Preventative Maintenance Schedules and correctives across all company's production machinery. Managing a team of Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineers on a 4 on 4 off Night / Day shift.

Location: Market Drayton

Hours: Days/Nights rotation (4 on 4 off shift pattern)

Salary: £51,710 per annum

Key Duties:

• Assist management in direct oversight of department's daily operation.
• Supervise and participate in the completion of the assigned PMs to ensure departmental KPI's.
• Clear communication of breakdowns and repairs done by verbal, email and by populating the HolisTech Engineering shift report.
• Perform major repair of mechanical and electrical systems.
• Ability to Identify and implement improvements to the PMs to make them more effective.
• Develop and maintain relations with the Planned Maintenance Manager, Operations, QA / Technical on manufacturing and operational concerns.
• Supervise the pre- startup of production equipment.
• Identify efficiency opportunities and improvements to plant to enhance operation productivity.
• Company procedures, legislation and Good working practices are adhered too.
• Assign, train, develop and supervise work of engineering on shift.

Safety, Health & Environment

• Ensure H&S is not compromised in any way by either yourself or others.
• To ensure that Health & Safety is not compromised in any way by engineers or contractors when completing their task.
• Health & Safety practices are followed and displayed at all times.
• Health & Safety Meetings are attended by an Engineering representative.

Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• Effective communication and a good understanding of FMCG production activities.
• Team to complete assigned PMs and Work request to the KPIs agreed.
• Good communication and updates given to all relevant departments. Clear description of the fault and successful rectification
• Hands on to support the engineers. All breakdowns and planned repairs are done effectively and to the allocated time.
• Evolvement and improve the written PMs to ensure they are affective and give value.
• Good communication and ability to discuss issues, attain good feedback.
• Ensure that all plant and equipment complete a Pre-start-up with no start-up issues.
• Equipment performance and capability to complete production plan and cost savings.
• No reported incidents and malpractice.
• Effective and productive team.

Benefits to Include:

• 2 Employee Volunteering Days per year
• Online and High-street retailer discount scheme and well-being portal
• Employee well-being and community support groups
• Charity Initiatives and Team events
• 24/7 Access to Grocery Aid

The Compleat Food Group are proud to have built an inclusive and respectful culture where our colleagues feel safe, supported and valued. A place where they can bring their whole selves to work to achieve exceptional results and thrive.

We continue to attract diverse talent into our teams, because we know greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life. That's why we're committed to ensuring Fairness, Equity, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do.

Recruitment Agencies We have an active and trusted Preferred Supplier List to assist us if required. We do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies.