Lead Engineer

Job Description
Lead Engineer - Nights
We rise to challenges together
Salary:
£59,844 per annum (includes night shift allowance)

Location:
Spalding

Ways of Working:
Site Based

Shift:
3's & 2's shift pattern,

Contract Type:
Permanent

Benefits:
Highly competitive rewards package, life assurance, and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Why join us?
We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

What we do.

This fantastic opportunity will be based at our Bakkavor Spalding site, which employs over 1,470 people across 3 manufacturing facilities & 1 Distribution Centre. We specialise in making hand crafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups & sauces and mayonnaise.

About The Role.
We're looking for a Lead Engineer to maintain production assets to maximise efficiency through planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance. Support machinery setups, changeovers, and equipment installation or removal. Collaborate with teams to improve performance and drive continuous improvement

Accountabilities:

• Prepare for food and drink maintenance work.
• Conduct planned maintenance of food and drink processing and packaging assets.
• Conduct predictive maintenance of food and drink processing and packaging assets (condition-based monitoring).
• Respond to breakdowns of food and drink processing and packaging assets. Conduct reactive maintenance or corrective actions to resolve deviation.
• Identify faults (electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatics) on food and drink processing and packaging assets, action as required.
• Lead or support food and drink operational teams with machinery change overs and set ups.
• Manufacture and repair component parts for food and drink processing and packaging assets.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects to optimise food and drink assets or processes. For example, participate in failure investigations to ensure process effectiveness and to contribute to and implement practical engineering solutions for efficiency and profitability.
• Contribute to technical performance reviews in collaboration with other functions and stakeholders.
• Maintain engineering documentation for food and drink maintenance work.
• Support maintenance and operational team members in developing engineering technical competence.
• Ensure availability and performance of maintenance tools and equipment.
• Contribute to food and drink internal and external audits.
• Point of contact at weekends and when the site Engineering Section Manager for Nights is on Holiday
• To carry out escalation procedures to the Factory Maintenance Managers, and the site Engineering Manager when necessary

About You.

• Functional Skills: Level 2* in Maths & English at grade C or above*, achieve within 24 months. (*or equivalent).
• Engineering apprenticeship (C&G / EAL NVQ Level 3 / 4 or OAL FDEM Diploma).
• Current Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (C&G Level 3, achieve within 12 months).
• Food Safety Qualification (Level 2, achieve within 12 months).
• Application of Safety, Health and Environmental legislation and procedures.
• Supervisory experience
• Communication Skills.
• Teamwork.
• Planning works and writing reports.
• Verify assets meet performance criteria after work.
• Reading and adhering to site SOPs.
• Fault finding: Electrical & / or Mechanical systems.
• CMMS experience (achieve within 12 months).
• Multi-skilled capability with electrical bias (achieve within 48 months).
• Contractor control (achieve within 12 months).
• Hygienic engineering.
• Carry out actions from CMMS (achieve within 1 month).
• Safety, Health and Environmental awareness.
• Knowledge of IT systems.
• Knowledge of effective teamworking.
• Mechanical principals, safety and control systems.
• Planning works and writing reports.
• Asset performance measures.
• Knowledge of CMMS.
• F&D assets, welding, machining, turning, hydraulic, pneumatic & thermodynamics systems and / or, electrical principals, motors, motor control circuits, motion control, encoders, PLCs, sensors.
• Knowledge of spare parts management systems.

What you'll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 23.5 days holiday
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• MyBargains Discount Platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free Independent Mortgage Advice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service)
• Free Car parking

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor.
We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team

At Bakkavor, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and we believe that diversity makes us stronger. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and ensure fair, transparent recruitment practices. Learn more about our commitment in our Inclusion and Diversity Policy (Inclusion & Diversity Policy).

Find out more and apply.