Maintenance Engineer

• Location: UK - Maidstone
• Job Family: Operations
• Time Type: Full time
• Job Requisition ID: R0008412
• Experience Years: 3-5 Years of Experience
• Employee Type: Regular

About The Opportunity

• Late shift - 5pm to 2am** Maintain all machinery and equipment to ensure high performance levels and ensure compliance with health and safety requirements. Contribute towards the design and implementation of schedules for preventative maintenance to reduce downtime and effects on productions. To ensure all regular checks are kept up to date and all relevant paper work is kept updated and stored correctly. To ensure the work shop is kept to the correct standard , and the storing of all chemicals – liquids are stored correctly.

Responsibilities

• Assess site on a regular basis and implement any remedial works required.
• Ensure site is compliant with health and safety and fire requirements.
• Make daily checks on all pack house machinery to prevent down-time to support productivity.
• Carry out regular scheduled maintenance according to programme.
• Liaise with external suppliers where necessary to obtain engineering assistance or call out requests.
• Maintain sufficient levels of spare parts and materials to aid repairs.
• Provide point of contact and assistance to contractors working on site.
• Where appropriate, train, mentor and cascade key skills to line staff in order to ensure machinery is kept to optimum standards for H&S and line performance.
• Identify areas of training for machine operators to reduce downtime and machine malfunctions.
• Keep up to date with changing technologies to ensure that new machine concepts are evaluated and considered.
• Be mindful of costs and budgets when procuring parts and equipment.
• Other ad hoc duties as required.

Candidate Profile

• Evidence of extensive experience working in a comparable role, preferably within the soft fruit industry
• Strong appreciation of our business needs and resourcefulness in coming up with solutions to their challenges
• Ability to relate to key client personnel in a professional and credible fashion
• Well developed personal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of employees
• Good interpersonal skills and well developed leadership and management skills
• Creativity
• Ability to delegate effectively and to follow-up as appropriate
• Ability to work as part of a team with colleagues across professional, operational and cultural boundaries
• Proactive approach and prompt responses to all service requests
• Ability to identify needs and issues and recommend suitable and pragmatic courses of action and solutions, adopting a risk aware approach
• Good time management and organisational skills with the ability to handle a number of tasks at once and meeting deadlines as required
• Very good organisational skills
• Good IT skills including experience of Word and Excel

About Driscolls
Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world.

Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners.

Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries.

Driscoll's es el proveedor líder en la comercialización de Fresas, Frambuesas, Zarzamoras y Arándanos Azules en el mundo. Con más de 100 años de herencia en agricultura y cientos de productores independiente alrededor del mundo, Driscoll's es una compañía apasionada por cultivar Berries frescas, hermosas y deliciosas. Nuestros valores de humildad, pasión y confianza han guiado nuestra misión de deleitar a los consumidores en el mundo.

Las variedades exclusivas de Driscoll's han sido desarrolladas a través de años de investigación usando sólo métodos de mejoramiento natural. De la granja a la mesa, nos enfocamos en ofrecer una experiencia de alta calidad con apoyo de nuestros socios de la cadena de suministro.

Driscoll's es la marca de confianza de sólo las mejores Berries.

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