Engineering Shift Manager - Nights

Proud to influence the pace of change

Salary: Competitive, depending on experience 

Benefits: 10% Bonus scheme, Private Medical Insurance, A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)

Location: Bourne, Lincolnshire

Ways of work: Fully site based

Shift and working hours: 4 on 4 off 7pm – 7am

Contract Type: Permanent

Why join us?  

We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. 

What we do.   

Bakkavor Bourne specialises in making prepared fruit, leafy salads and stir fry mixes. It employs over 1,100 people and forms part of the Bakkavor Meals sector in the UK.

About the role.  
We are looking to recruit an Engineering Shift Manager to manage a team of 6 engineers to ensure adherence to scheduled workload and that all reactive breakdowns are managed thus minimising plant downtime. You will be methodical in approach, highly organised with excellent prioritisation skills and the ability to work to short and tight deadlines.

Accountabilities 

• Manage the engineering shift team 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. Ensuring effective use of Max plan with direct reports.
• 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.
• 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.

About you

• Engineering Apprenticeship and / or Engineering Technical Qualification Level 3 or above.  

• Current Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (C&G Level 3).  

• IOSH Managing Safely.  

• Asset Manager (LARS Code: 624). 

• Application of SHE legislation and procedures.  

• Identify the organisation’s context and constraints that affect asset management. 

• Develop and classify asset life-cycle plans including performance monitoring, business cases and activities. 

• Apply continuous improvement techniques and quantify asset, asset system and asset management activity-related risks; identify mitigation options.  

• CMMS experience (achieve within 12 months).  

• Coach reliability techniques & condition-based monitoring (CBM). 

• Risk management and its application to asset management: risk assessment, quantification, mitigation, and impact. 

• Mechanical principals, F&D assets, welding, machining, turning, hydraulic, pneumatic & thermodynamics systems and / or, electrical principals, safety & control circuits, motors, motor control circuits, motion control, encoders, PLCs, sensors.  

• FMCG Experience  

What you’ll receive.   

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Short Term Bonus Scheme
• 22 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free Carparking

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. 

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!    

Find out more and apply.   

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