Senior Manufacturing Engineer

4 weeks ago


Brackley, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom Avara Foods Full time

About the Role:

Avara Foods is a leading food business in the UK, supplying chicken and turkey to major supermarkets and restaurants. We're looking for a skilled Graduate Engineer to join our Engineering Team at our Brackley site.

As an Asset Manager, you'll be responsible for monitoring equipment downtime, analyzing trends to drive continuous improvement, and leading reliability initiatives and projects. You'll work in a fast-paced, dynamic FMCG factory environment, manufacturing short shelf-life products where hygiene standards are critical.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Asset Manager, responsible for all equipment in an area
  • Maintain a high level of reliability and availability of factory equipment through an effective planned maintenance regime
  • Responsible for the gathering and analysis of equipment efficiency and downtime in order to drive continuous improvement initiatives
  • Raising of Planned Maintenance or reactive maintenance jobs for respective area
  • Review of all completed job sheets in respective area
  • Production of downtime data for weekly meetings
  • Lead and support installation and capital projects
  • Communicate and collaborate with other colleagues, suppliers and contractors
  • Understanding of engineering and operational KPI's and be able to identify areas for improvement
  • Interact with on-shift engineers and other site engineering teams to resolve challenging equipment problems
  • Support the Site Principal Engineer and engineering peers to develop robust weekly and monthly maintenance plans that improve asset availability and equipment performance
  • Coordinate OEM engineer service visits with production and planning teams and scheduling further work that arises from those inspections
  • Oversee equipment calibrations and complete and review PUWER assessments to maintain equipment compliance

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
  • Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multi-task and thrive in a timeline-driven environment
  • Good interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to work individually or as part of a team
  • Ability to problem solve
  • Good IT ability

Benefits:

  • Starting salary £32,000 per annum depending on Skills and experience
  • 31 days holiday allowance
  • Pension scheme
  • Life assurance/insurance
  • Various lifestyle benefits, such as cashback perks, exclusive shopping discounts from well known retailers, and discounted cinema tickets
  • Wellbeing resources, including free online health advice & support, and wellbeing assessments
  • Subsidised staff canteen
  • Free staff parking


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