Engineering Coordinator - Long Sutton, United Kingdom - Princes

Princes
Princes
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Long Sutton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Vacancy Name

  • Engineering Coordinator

Employment Type

  • Permanent

Country

  • United Kingdom

Location

  • Long Sutton

Business Area

  • Operations

Workplace Type

  • Hybrid

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.

Role Description

Job Purpose:

Effective & efficient maintenance of the filler/seamer

  • Timely response to plant breakdowns, planned maintenance and calibrations, all owned until complete.
  • All work formally recorded as such and or handed over as required

Dimensions:


  • They will be responsible for a team of up to 11 direct reports, but must ensure that the wider maintenance team are following the correct procedures for maintaining the varied filling/seaming equipment on site.
  • 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.
  • Moving the engineering maintenance strategy from a breakdown/fire fighting mentality to a proactive approach.
  • Identify the root cause, records actions taken to correct fault and up date Planned Maintenance system.
  • To heavily support and coach the effective development of the Team (Engineering, Operators & Team Leaders).
  • To share knowledge within team to increase the department flexibility.
  • To step change 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 out including the Maintenance Log being completed

Key Relationships:


  • Site
  • FGM & Site Management Team
  • Section Engineers across shifts (daily)
  • Manufacturing Manager and Shift Coordinators
  • Technicians and Manufacturing Team Members (daily)
  • Planning Department to organise downtime and maintenance periods
  • H&S Manager, Environmental Manager.
  • External
  • 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 to with 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

  • 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 followup is carried out and the original issues are closed off.
  • Responsible for monitoring, updating and improving the planned maintenance system and ensuring work planned and progressed.
  • 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.
  • To liaise, assist with training and support other departments in general running of the factory.
  • Undertake the training of others as required
  • Identify own training needs and with manager agree a time plan for achieving this. To include Multiskilling and continued Upskilling.
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Contribute to and help implement continuous improvement, to enhance quality, safety, efficiency and waste reduction.

Communication

  • Work closely with support functions (HR, Technical, Manufacturing, Logistics and Finance) to ensure resources required are identified and communicated with all outstanding issues resolved.
  • Communicate as required with Planning, Manufacturing and all of site to ensure proj
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