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Business Unit - Nestlé Purina
Job Title - Line Performance Engineer/ Mechanical or Electrical Bias
Salary up to £49,000 (including shift premium) depending on skill level + additional benefits
Multi-skilled and Mechanical or Electrical bias roles available.
We are now looking for a Skilled Shift Maintenance Engineer, known internally as a Line Performance Engineer to help deliver the reliability strategy for our Purina factory in Sudbury, Suffolk. Ideally this would be a multiskilled engineer with a proven track record or a single skilled engineer willing to develop their career further.
We are keen to speak to those who have operational experience supporting and running a line whilst using your engineering skills to implement corrective and preventative maintenance.
At Nestlé PURINA Pet Care, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier, and longer lives because we're pet owners too. As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestlé PURINA has been helping pet’s live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK’s best loved brands including BAKERS, GO-CAT and ONE trusted and bought by millions of pet owners.
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.
It’s worldwide. A day in the life of a Line Performance Engineer...
Here at Purina we have moved to a 24/7-line centric approach to help drive efficiencies within our production. This role is a key role for the factory; 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. Depending on the plan for your shift performing 1 of the following roles. Driving a safe culture and eliminate safety risks.
• Ensuring that all products are manufactured according to quality standards.
• Participate and support the Autonomous and Maintenance Working Groups to drive improvement through the implementation of following tools: inspections, abnormalities identification, centre lining, breakdown analysis, preventive and predictive maintenance.
• To be successful in this key role we expect you to ideally have experience working in a FMCG manufacturing 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. Ideally educated to apprenticeship level NVQ 3 or hold a recognised engineering qualification.
• Multiskilled engineer or single skilled and willing to develop will be considered.
• Ability to run operational lines whilst making incremental engineering improvements to drive reliability is a key experience we require.
• 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.
• Data analysis and understanding of performance indicators.
• Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth. This position is a shift based role and operates a 4 on 4 off approach including both day and night shift working. When we embrace diversity 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. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply. We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity, our people make up a number of Colleague Networks who represent different experiences and communities who hold us accountable in creating a sense of belonging for all, and our values create the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution you bring. Find out more about our Colleague Networks here: Diversity, equity and inclusion | Nestlé (nestle.co.uk) We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Business Unit - Nestlé Purina
Job Title - Line Performance Engineer/ Mechanical or Electrical Bias
Salary up to £49,000 (including shift premium) depending on skill level + additional benefits
Multi-skilled and Mechanical or Electrical bias roles available.
We are now looking for a Skilled Shift Maintenance Engineer, known internally as a Line Performance Engineer to help deliver the reliability strategy for our Purina factory in Sudbury, Suffolk. Ideally this would be a multiskilled engineer with a proven track record or a single skilled engineer willing to develop their career further.
We are keen to speak to those who have operational experience supporting and running a line whilst using your engineering skills to implement corrective and preventative maintenance.
At Nestlé PURINA Pet Care, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier, and longer lives because we're pet owners too. As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestlé PURINA has been helping pet’s live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK’s best loved brands including BAKERS, GO-CAT and ONE trusted and bought by millions of pet owners.
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.
It’s worldwide. A day in the life of a Line Performance Engineer...
Here at Purina we have moved to a 24/7-line centric approach to help drive efficiencies within our production. This role is a key role for the factory; 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. Depending on the plan for your shift performing 1 of the following roles. Driving a safe culture and eliminate safety risks.
• Ensuring that all products are manufactured according to quality standards.
• Participate and support the Autonomous and Maintenance Working Groups to drive improvement through the implementation of following tools: inspections, abnormalities identification, centre lining, breakdown analysis, preventive and predictive maintenance.
• To be successful in this key role we expect you to ideally have experience working in a FMCG manufacturing 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. Ideally educated to apprenticeship level NVQ 3 or hold a recognised engineering qualification.
• Multiskilled engineer or single skilled and willing to develop will be considered.
• Ability to run operational lines whilst making incremental engineering improvements to drive reliability is a key experience we require.
• 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.
• Data analysis and understanding of performance indicators.
• Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth. This position is a shift based role and operates a 4 on 4 off approach including both day and night shift working. When we embrace diversity 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. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply. We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity, our people make up a number of Colleague Networks who represent different experiences and communities who hold us accountable in creating a sense of belonging for all, and our values create the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution you bring. Find out more about our Colleague Networks here: Diversity, equity and inclusion | Nestlé (nestle.co.uk) We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process.