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Engineering Team Leader
Location - Bakkavor Bo'ness
Salary: £51,063 per annum
Working Hours: 05.30-17.30 / 17.30-05.30 in rotation
Days of Work: 4 on 4 off shift pattern
Benefits Package:
24 Days Annual Leave p/a
Pension
Life Insurance
Flexible benefits package
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group
We're proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued Engineering Team Leader we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.
About Us:
We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.
Our Business:
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.
Our Bakkavor business in Bo'ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers. To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo'ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.
The Role:
A fantastic opportunity for an Engineering Team Leader has arisen to join the team at our Bo'ness site. You will be responsible for the management, prioritisation & allocation of ad-hoc reactive engineering tasks and ensuring that planned tasks are carried out to the correct standards.
Your responsibilities will include:
What you will need:
It is essential that you have:
What you can expect from us:
When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension and other flexible benefits - alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.
Proud to be Bakkavor
We're proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We're proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we're proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we'll make you proud too.
Location - Bakkavor Bo'ness
Salary: £51,063 per annum
Working Hours: 05.30-17.30 / 17.30-05.30 in rotation
Days of Work: 4 on 4 off shift pattern
Benefits Package:
24 Days Annual Leave p/a
Pension
Life Insurance
Flexible benefits package
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group
We're proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued Engineering Team Leader we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.
About Us:
We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.
Our Business:
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.
Our Bakkavor business in Bo'ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers. To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo'ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.
The Role:
A fantastic opportunity for an Engineering Team Leader has arisen to join the team at our Bo'ness site. You will be responsible for the management, prioritisation & allocation of ad-hoc reactive engineering tasks and ensuring that planned tasks are carried out to the correct standards.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Understand the site daily priorities / plans, direct and motivate their engineering shift team as required
- Manage the engineering team (including contractors) to ensure delivery of scheduled work and reactive work so that plant availability is optimised and manage technical specifications for ingredients, products, processes & packaging
- Implement agreed training & development plans to meet engineering & production needs. Comply with statutory & Bakkavor Health & Safety requirement, ensures reports work in a safe manner. This will include ownership of dynamic risk assessment process
- Ensure engineering downtime is minimised, accurately logged, and monitor the repair time. Liaise with planning and operations team to allow for PPM to be completed in a timely manner
- Communicating, report and update Production Shift Managers, Senior Production / Engineering Managers and relevant Production Team Leaders regarding current breakdown status, impact and lead time to resolution
- Ensure all stock is logged in and out of the stores area highlighting any stock issues to the engineering team manager
- To maintain standards of hygiene and good housekeeping appropriate to a quality food manufacturer. GMP standard of workshops and engineers tool boxes is maintained at a high level
- Be the Engineering point of contact during & out of hours
- Respond to and prioritise the shift to resolve line running issues
- Carry out all other ad-hoc Management requests as consistent with the role
What you will need:
It is essential that you have:
- Approved Engineering or Mechanical apprentice (City & Guilds and National Certificate)
- Fault-finding skills,
- Understanding of problem-solving techniques; RCA, 5Y.
- Experience and understanding of machine controls and PLCs.
- Practical mechanical and electrical experience within a production environment, ideally in food manufacturing
- Demonstrable understanding of Production prioritisation (desirable).
What you can expect from us:
When joining us you can expect a highly competitive rewards package including group pension and other flexible benefits - alongside excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.
Proud to be Bakkavor
We're proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We're proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we're proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we'll make you proud too.
