Position Snapshot

Nestlé Purina
Senior Automation & MES Engineer
Sudbury, Suffolk
Circa £45,000+ potential bonus + fantastic benefits

This is a full-time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process on what this could look like.
 

Position Summary

The Senior Automation & MES Engineer is responsible for ensuring as a team we achieve factory electrical compliance and KPIs through the development of the workforce and the appropriate application of technology whilst adhering to company policies and statutory regulations. This is an exciting role that will have a key influence in delivering automation and digitalisation on site.

At Purina PetCare, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too.

 
Our Sudbury factory makes some of the UK’s most well known and much loved brands, such as Go Cat, Baker, and Purina ONE, and is constantly developing to meet the changing needs of our consumers. All this happens in a vibrant and historic market town known as the home of Thomas Gainsborough. For a town with a rich history it also has a strong vision for the future with continued investment planned to ensure Sudbury remains a great place to live, work and visit.

 
Manufacturing in Nestlé is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place whilst driving losses from our business in order to maximise efficiency & productivity.

A day in the life of a Senior Automation & MES Engineer

We’re looking for someone to be a team lead, setting an example and coaching those around you. To drive the site forward whilst supervising the team, doing so in line with corporate guidelines, enforcing that all MES-A activities enhance business objectives, product quality and plant operation/performance while ensuring that people health and safety, product safety, and environment are never compromised.

Other key day-to-day activities will be:

•    Building engineering capability with the MES and automation field, ensuring employees are competent to perform maintenance tasks.
•    Ensures that team managing, operating and maintaining MES-Automation equipment and infrastructure are competent to do so.
•    Ensures that competency assessment and competency building plans are in place, routinely reviewed and executed for the Industrial Services team.
•    Attend breakdowns to both plant and equipment to manage day-to-day needs of the production department.
•    Building strong awareness of departmental needs to maximise production output and ensuring the smooth flow of the operation.
•    Ensure Process & Equipment safety for people, products and environment
•    Participates in the Capex and installation projects.
•    Implement performance improvement projects as identified by the teams.
•    Supervise the technical team and supervision of third parties.
 

What will make you successful

To be successful in this key role we expect you to ideally have experience working in a FMCG manufacturing automation maintenance environment and have strong service orientation amongst internal stakeholders with clear leadership capability.

Other Key Requirements are:

•    Qualified within one of the following course Level 3 NVQ Engineering Maintenance/ National Certificate/Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering  or hold a Higher National Certificate/Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering  or Electrical Engineering Degree from an IET approved course.
•    Extensive practical engineering experience and ideally management experience at supervisory level. 
•    Experience required in Process Control, Loop Tuning, Instrumentation and PLC/HMI programming
•    Ideally experience delivering on digitalisation within manufacturing (i.e. Industry 4.0)
•    Ideally managing safely and Intermediate food hygiene.
•    Previous experience being part of projects and also leading project is preferable.
•    Exposure to TPM, preventive maintenance planning and/or maintenance execution desired.
 

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 22nd March 2022.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers.  That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process.  Be yourself, everyone else is taken!

Right to work in the UK  

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. The successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their right to work status for the UK during the recruitment process. We have assessed this role and it could be applicable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and you are unable to gain this independently, we may be able to provide sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route in line with the Home office guidelines. We encourage you to review the UK Home Office guidelines ahead of submitting a job application to review whether you meet the eligibility criteria under the Skilled Worker route and understand the immigration fees that you would be responsible for when making a visa application. If you require sponsorship, please discuss this with us as part of the recruitment process.