Shift Engineer

2 days ago


Thirsk, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom Inspired Pet Nutrition Full time

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Shift Engineer with Electrical bias to join our Engineering team, this role will be based in our Thirsk manufacturing plant.

On Offer:

  • £22.65 per hour (Including Shift Allowance) (£50,880 per annum)
  • 43.2 hours per week (24/7 Dupont shift pattern) Days and Nights 12 hour shifts
  • Hourly rate with overtime - Paid monthly

Our shift model explained:

The Dupont schedule follows a four-week cycle. Colleagues switch between day and night shifts, (6am to 6pm / 6pm to 6am) often within the same week, and will work for three or four consecutive days at a time. Colleague workdays are interspersed with one to three consecutive days off. Additionally, colleagues receives one block of seven days off during the four-week period.

Please note there is not public transport routes to our factory, therefore you will need your own transport

The Company

IPN is an innovative, well-established, and award-winning pet food manufacturer, employing over 850 people across our 4 UK manufacturing sites. Our family of brands include Harringtons, Wagg, Barking Heads & Meowing Heads, AATU, Blink, Butchers, Classic Cat and a selection of partner brands that trust us to produce food on their behalf. Our kitchens in Thirsk, Kinmel and Crick produce dry, wet, and baked foods which are enjoyed by dogs and cats all over the world.

The Role of Maintenance Engineer

To establish and maintain safe, compliant and effective engineering operations that continually develop the site's asset base by following the Engineering strategy for proactive work whilst responding to breakdowns.

Key Responsibilities :

  • Perform planned and predictive maintenance of equipment and complete ad hoc repairs in a timely manner and by prioritising works in line with site priorities to ensure that efficient production is maintained
  • Assessing the need for spares by ensuring that the critical spares and spares list is up to date and stock is at the required levels and resolve any issues in a timely manner.
  • Ensuring a safe environment by conducting all servicing and maintenance activities with minimal risk to employees, products and equipment. Champion safety
  • Using route cause analysis on breakdowns to identify actions and drive completion of actions to prevent re-occurrence
  • Support the energy reduction and sustainability agenda to reduce environmental impacts across the site by ensuring all actions are completed
  • Participate in daily and weekly review sessions to drive the improvement throughout the site.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

  • Previous experience in same or similar role
  • Qualified or time served in Electrical engineering discipline (required)
  • Qualified or time served in Mechanical engineering discipline (desirable)
  • Experienced in the use and operation of CMMS
  • Reliability Management expertise (such as FMECA, RCM, Tribology, CBM, TPM)
  • Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • NEBOSH with a sound knowledge of behavioural safety at a site level - desirable
  • Legionella and HACCP awareness - desirable
  • Experienced in PLC (desirable)

Benefits:

  • Overtime up to 12 hours per week: time and a half
  • Overtime after 12 hours per week: double time
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity/pawturnity
  • Pension: NEST - Employee contributions 4.5% / Employer contribution 3.5% - salary sacrifice
  • Other Benefits: Free parking, free electric car charging, Hertility, Spotify or Netflix subscription, discounted products & free hot drinks.
  • Life assurance
  • Medicash Plan
  • You are also able to choose a non-contractual flexible benefits, such as being able to purchase heavily discounted pet food.


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