Multi-Skilled Engineer

The Role A fantastic opportunity for an experienced, Multi-Skilled Engineer to join our busy production and site engineering department. To enable us to continue meeting high industry demands and to maintain and exceed the highest levels of quality and customer service expected, we are keen to hear from suitably skilled and experienced engineering professionals who may be interested in joining our team. The engineering team at Barfoots is pivotal to our success. Working closely with production to ensure minimum downtime and ensuring that the production plant, services, and facilities are all maintained and improved by way of pre-planned and reactive maintenance. With either a mechanical or electrical bias, candidates will have proven experience working in a similar environment, attending to machinery breakdowns, fault diagnosis, and establishing root cause analysis in a busy, dynamic processing or FMCG environment. With strong communication and team working skills, candidates will work collaboratively within the engineering team, providing support and investigating means of improving plant productivity and efficiency. Also working to identify and participate in continuous improvement projects to help increase plant efficiency, energy, and costs. This is a day shift based role: 4 days on, 4 days off. NO AGENCIES PLEASE Key Responsibilities General mechanical/electrical engineering and routine maintenance tasks. Attend to and rectify factory machinery breakdowns, utilizing best practices for both health & safety and hygiene. Fault diagnosis and root cause analysis. Ensure maximum equipment uptime and availability. Follow and improve upon month-on-month PPM schedules. Be involved in both electrical and mechanical reactive and proactive maintenance. Maintain accurate records for all activity and spares used/requested. Ensure equipment is maintained to a high standard. Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience Time served apprenticeship or equivalent in either Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. Qualified to degree level or equivalent qualification. Capable of quickly identifying and efficiently resolving mechanical and/or electrical faults. Effective communication skills. Ability to prioritize workload and use own initiative. Troubleshooting electrical control panels - an advantage. Desirable Skills/Experience: Capable of working on inverters, PLC systems. Carry out effective RCAs. Develop effective PPMs. Experience of working within FMCG / Fresh food manufacturing. Why Work for Barfoots? Investors In People Silver Award status. Company pension scheme. Life Assurance. Employee Assistance Program. Benefits Platform. Development opportunities. Discounted leisure membership. Discounted vegetable box scheme. Cycle to work scheme. Free onsite parking. Approved training centre for Highfield qualifications. Rapidly growing company. Committed to Sustainability.

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