Maintenance Engineer

2 weeks ago


Avonmouth, Bristol, United Kingdom Hovis Ltd Full time

Welcome to Hovis Ltd, where we pride ourselves on over 130 years of baking experience. Our iconic brand is built on the quality and dedication of our people, who work tirelessly to produce bread and bakery products that make a difference in the lives of our customers.

We are a values-led business, driven by our commitment to Quality, Accountability, and Trust. Our team of 2,800 people work across 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres, delivering around 1.3 million loaves every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland.

We are seeking a skilled Shift Engineer to join our Engineering team at the Avonmouth Bristol bakery. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth operation of our bakery, working closely with our Operator Maintainers to identify and resolve maintenance issues.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the development and implementation of maintenance procedures, engineering standards, and risk assessments.
  • Ensure compliance with all relevant Hovis and legislative health and safety requirements.
  • Support Operator Maintainers in first-line fault identification and rectification.
  • Conduct second-line fault finding on plant upsets and equipment malfunctions, implementing corrective actions.
  • Undertake corrective maintenance and bench overhaul activities as required.
  • Review and validate CILTs (Clean, Inspect, Lubricate, Test) generated by the autonomous maintenance team.
  • Authorise autonomous maintenance countermeasures.
  • Raise tags and undertake countermeasures to eradicate issues.
  • Initiate dynamic risk assessments.
  • Provide technical support and training to Operator Maintainers.
  • Initiate RCA (Root Cause Analysis) investigations into plant issues and equipment malfunctions.
  • Implement condition-based inspections of equipment in distress.
  • Participate in PPPMs (Predictive Preventive Maintenance) and line overhauls as requested by the Shift Manager/Engineering Lead.
  • Record and register stop information into the tracking system.
  • Ensure consumable spares and suitable lubricants are available to Operator Maintainer teams.
  • Define and standardise optimum changeover processes.
  • Accountability for withdrawing stock from engineering stores.

Ideal Qualifications and Experience:

  • Recognised time-served apprenticeship in an engineering discipline with HNC/HND.
  • Demonstrable experience of maintenance within an automated FMCG/bakery environment.
  • Successfully undertaken a skills conversion program.

Desirable:

  • Experience of working in a bakery.
  • Basic food hygiene qualification.
  • Gas training.
  • 17th Edition Electrical regs.
  • Risk Assessment & Method Statement Training.

Why Work for Us:

We offer a range of benefits to support our colleagues, including a competitive annual leave entitlement, flexibility, and a generous long service and colleague recognition scheme. We also celebrate loyalty and offer three levels of pensions.

Hovis values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. We treat every job applicant, employee, or worker fairly and equally, with dignity and respect, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.


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