Position Snapshot 

Job Title – Days Based Maintenance Engineer  

Business Unit – Nestlé Purina 

Location – Sudbury Factory 

Shift Pattern – Days, Monday to Friday 

Salary £42,000 plus potential bonus and fantastic benefits. 

Position Summary

Are you currently a Maintenance, Shift or Reliability Engineer who is looking to share your skill-set in a role that offers an opportunity for you to shine? Are you keen to make your mark in your next career step? Then this could be the role you’re looking for.

We are currently recruiting for a Days based Maintenance Engineer, to join our team based at our Nestlé Purina site in Sudbury.

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

In our Sudbury factory the 200 strong workforce produce some of the UK’s most popular brands including Go-Cat, Bakers, Purina ONE, BETA and Pro Plan providing consumers with a product to meet their every need. And this ancient, bustling market town in the heart of the Stour valley is surrounded by countryside of outstanding natural beauty making Sudbury an idea place for animal lovers. Plus, there’s the added advantage of London being a 45 minute train ride away from nearby Colchester.

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. This is particularly critical as we continue our journey towards being a LEAN Enterprise. This is the biggest change in the way we work that Nestlé have ever seen. It’s worldwide. It is exciting. You could play a key part in it.

A day in the life of a Days Based Maintenance Engineer … 

As a Maintenance Engineer, you will support and participate in the implementation and execution of the factory asset maintenance programme aimed to eliminate unplanned stops and optimise maintenance cost and as a result increase asset intensity. This role is responsible for a defined set of production assets in terms of the engineering strategy to support in driving your area to world class performance levels in safety, quality, cost and service.

Other responsibilities will include:

•    To maintain the basic condition of the machines by means of reactive, preventative and predictive maintenance activities. 
•    Support Breakdowns and participate in line improvements across the factory, as you become the Subject Matter Expert for your selected area.
•    Driving a safe culture and eliminate safety risks
•    Ensure all work is completed to a good engineering standard following GMP and safe systems of work at all times.
•    Ensure compliance with the Nestlé quality policy particularly engineering change management and line release.
•    Recording of breakdowns, root cause analysis and taking ownership of follow up actions.
•    Supporting Root Cause Analysis practices and projects.
•    Supporting the Capability Build of both the Shift Technicians and the Apprentice Technicians as well as supporting and developing the AM team following our TPM roadmap on site.

What will make you successful?

To be successful in this key role we expect you to ideally have experience working in a FMCG manufacturing maintenance environment maybe as a Technician, Shift Engineer or a Maintenance Engineer and have strong service orientation amongst internal stakeholders with lots of proactive initiative and passion for continuous improvement.

Other experiences and attributes would include:

•    You will be educated to apprenticeship level NVQ 3 in Engineering, with Electrical bias would be advantageous. 
•    Demonstrate mechanical comprehension & food safety/Food handling awareness. 
•    Ability to understand and adhere to strict hygiene rules.
•    Experience in Planned Preventative asset Maintenance.
•    Experience in Root Cause Analysis tools/problem solving methodology.
•    Understanding of Lean manufacturing tools including TPM.
•    Demonstrate that you are a real team player.

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 bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

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