Site Services Lead Engineer

Site Services Lead Engineer (Mechanical Bias)

 Location - Bakkavor Bo'ness

 Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per annum (depending on experience)
 Working Hours: 08.00-16.30 (some out of hour's work required from time to time to meet business requirements)

 Days of  Work: Monday - Friday

Benefits Package:       
34 Days Annual Leave p/a
Pension
Life Insurance
Flexible benefits package 

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued Site Services Lead Engineer we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.

About Us:

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

Our Business:
Bakkavor is one of the leading providers of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

Our Bakkavor business in Bo’ness, based near Falkirk, specialises in the production of fresh, high quality salad products working primarily with premium retailers. To give you a sense for the scale of manufacturing in Bo’ness we produce over 70million salad based meals and side dishes from our 2 manufacturing facilities employing over 1200 people in the town.

The Role:

To act as the lead mechanical engineer for the site services team and ensure all site services and building/facilities are maintained to an acceptable & regulatory standard eg water, steam, boilers, refrigeration, air compressors, pumps, motors, air handling equipment etc.

 
Job Accountabilities:

• To Ensure all site services plant and equipment eg steam, water, drainage, pressure systems, effluent & air handling are functioning within legal, customer and business requirements.

• Provide technical support and assistance where required to other site services team members & and support apprentice engineers to ensure necessary skills and knowledge are passed on 

• Ensure good H&S standards are met & adhered to throughout the department and relevant safe systems of work are in place and kept up to date 

• Ensure required works are allocated through CMMS system including PPM’s, corrective actions, audit actions, continuous improvement, planned & unplanned repairs 

• Ordering & management of spare parts and materials to support the smooth operation of site services maintenance and corrective tasks 

• Maintaining steam boilers and system components e.g. pipework, pressure regulators, safety devices, heat exchangers & steam traps 

• Carrying out general facilities repairs & plumbing works e.g. repairing leaks and installing new supply's

• Carry out fault finding on mechanical breakdowns e.g. pumps, motors, gearbox’s & valves to ensure equipment is returned to operation with minimal disruption to the business.

• Liase with other departments to ensure maintenance tasks, repairs and audit actions can be carried out within agreed timescales and to a good standard

• Manage/coordinate with external contractors and service providers to ensure compliance and service agreements are met

• All tasks delegated by the site services and compliance manager

About you

• Completed mechanical/multi skilled apprenticeship (NVQ level 3 / 4 or city and guilds 

• Previous site services maintenance experience 

• Competent mechanical/ fault finding & analysis skills 

• Flexible working attitude 

• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)

• Methodical & strong attention to detail 

• Strong trouble shooting & decision makings skills

• Awareness of Engineering/legal compliance 

• Electrical awareness and understanding

Advantages qualifications/ skills/ knowledge 

• Experience in a FMCG manufacturing environment 

• Knowledge of gas systems, water treatment plant, cooling towers, refrigeration system & fire alarm systems

• IOSH managing safely 

• Legionella awareness/training 

• BG01 safe operation of steam boilers 

• Current edition of IET wiring regulations

In this role you will need to be self-sufficient and motivated to ensure that you meet deadlines whilst making sure engineering and technical integrity is maintained.

You will need to be proactive, with a good work ethic taking ownership and pride in what you do.

Experience within an FMCG environment is key and ideally experience in Fabrication. The ability to work independently as well as in a team. Build strong working relationships with colleagues within the department and other functions as appropriate.

About us
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

What you can expect from us
When joining us you can expect a competitive salary, a strong benefits package and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.