Maintenance Engineer

Join Our Engineering Team at The Compleat Food Group!

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) to join our brilliant team in Clitheroe!

At The Compleat Food Group we never just make food. We make food to feel good, taste good and do good for everyone.

Our aim is to delight our customers and consumers every day, creating the best possible foods for shoppers needs and budgets.

Our ability to drive category growth for our customers is through our focus on understanding our consumers and our relentless pursuit of innovation – we have the courage to think differently. 

We work at the correct pace to make clear decisions and deliver on our commitments on time every time. Quality is at the heart of everything we do, always. We take in pride in everything we produce.

We value everybody who works in our organisation. Everyone is treated with respect and encouraged to thrive and develop. Together we will become number one for culture.

 

The purpose of the Maintenance Engineer is to support the Engineering department to achieve effective and productive running of the processes. Responsible for the continuous running of equipment and machinery and providing breakdown and maintenance cover on a varied range of machinery. 

Current Engineering Team:

4 Hygiene Support on nights who help dismantle and reassemble machinery.

Bias is electrical knowledge: small 3 phase/single phase, servo, stepper motors, inverters and servo drives. An advantage would be load cells, multihead weighing and sensor technology, including laser and ultrasonic. We would accept 60/40.

Ideal candidates will have multi-skilled engineering experience as well as experience in the food sector being preferable. They will be a self-motivated individual with well-developed interpersonal skills, who is confident with factory teams. The key is an understanding of process. We have a mixture of auto lines and manual lines and many changes – we package over 200 SKUs.

Location: Clitheroe

Hours: Days/Nights rotation  (3 on 3 off shift pattern) – 6am-6pm / 6pm – 6am (Saturday nights off)

Salary: £48,000 per annum

Overtime: Overtime will be available to cover holidays and absence. Overtime paid at 150%

 

Key Duties:

• Adhere to all company Health & Safety policies and practice
•  Perform reactive and proactive maintenance on a variety of packaging and process equipment
• Carry out regular maintenance, PPMs and reactive, where directed
• Troubleshoot breakdowns across a range of equipment to provide minimal downtime
• Support Line Leaders and Production to facilitate production efficiency
• Perform ancillary building maintenance around the site and outlying buildings
• Maintain documentation to provide historical records of breakdowns and PPMs
• Ensure all required paperwork is kept maintained and up to date throughout the department.
• Involvement with a number of projects from machinery upgrades to building work
• Identify spares requirements and maintain stock levels as needed
• Operate in a safe manner, ensuring at all times, any risk to self and others, is kept to a minimum
• Work with production to facilitate optimum running time of lines
• Communicate technical & operational issues, quickly & effectively to relevant departments
• Attend meetings and deputize for the Senior Engineer when needed
• Lead projects and improvements and meet due dates

 

Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications:  

The right candidate will have a passion for food and an enthusiasm to learn on the job in a fast paced sector of the industry. The position is suitable for a candidate looking to start or continue their career within the food manufacturer industry. 

• FMCG/Food Production Experience
• Packaging machines experience
• Level 3 Food Safety and Hygiene
• Essential Hygiene and Chemical Awareness
• Level 1/2 HACCP – ONC/HNC Engineering and Maintenance
• Excellent communication skills
• Can handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to organise and work under pressure
• Very good computer skills and have the ability to publish reports when required
• Ability to coordinate work out of production hours to achieve goals
• Problem solving
• Enthusiasm to learn and grow
• Self Motivated
• Flexible attitude
• A team player with well-developed interpersonal skills

 

Equipment we use:

• Mutihead weighers
• Manual weighers
• Tray sealers
• Checkweighers
• Labellers
• Metal detectors
• Depositors
• Slicers, shredders
• Cubers
• Box sealers
• Case erecters
• Robot packer

 

For specifics

• Multipond multihead weighers / Syspal lifters
• Ishida, loma checkweighers
• Herma and Premier labellers, Ice coders, Cobalt zebra box labellers
• PA, Sealpac MPE Sealers   all map mapv
• Fortress, Ciea metal detectors
• Riggs depositors
• Westrock / Kuka robot packer
• Weber slicers

 

Benefits to Include:

• 2 Employee Volunteering Days per year
• Online and High-street retailer discount scheme and well-being portal
• Employee well-being and community support groups
• Charity Initiatives and Team events
• 24/7 Access to Grocery Aid

 

The Compleat Food Group are proud to have built an inclusive and respectful culture where our colleagues feel safe, supported and valued. A place where they can bring their whole selves to work to achieve exceptional results and thrive.

We continue to attract diverse talent into our teams, because we know greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Equity, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. 

 

Recruitment Agencies We have an active and trusted Preferred Supplier List to assist us if required. We do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies.