Shift Engineer

2 weeks ago

Pontefract, United Kingdom Culina IPS Full time

**Company Description**

IPS is the largest co-packer in the UK, working with some of the best-known food brands to provide cost-effective and innovative co-packing, co-filling and co-manufacturing solutions.

Culina Group, a well established leader in the logistics market is currently looking to recruit a Shift Engineer, to assist the Engineering Manager to ensure the factory requirements are met in line with the business requirements at our IPS site in Pontefract,North Yorkshire.

Job Title: Shift Engineer

Location: Green Ln, Featherstone, Pontefract WF7, UK

Shift: Monday to Friday, 06:00 to 14:00 / 14:00 to 22:00

The purpose of the Shift Engineer is to be Proactive and Reactive in providing Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Support.

Key Accountabilities for the Shift Engineer:
Main Duties & Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the role are detailed as follows, please note that this list is not exhaustive:

- Assisting the Production team where possible:

- Providing engineering solutions and assist in an operational capacity
- Monitoring all machines and ancillary plant
- Follow preventative maintenance and lubrication schedules
- Repairs during production
- Planned maintenance
- Inspection outside production hours some week end overtime working will be required to suit the business needs
- Ideally you may have worked with packaging machinery within FMCG environment with Supporting collage/technical qualifications in line with Engineering experience to date
- Familiar with maintaining packing equipment
- Experience of pneumatics
- Horizontal flow packers
- Vertical form fill baggers
- Carton erectors
- Gluing systems
- Met /dets
- Checkweighrers
- Pallet wrapping m/c
- Shrink wrapping
- Various bespoke hand packing / labelling lines some with printers
- To carry out scheduled work to restore machines and site back to standard.
- To carry out change overs when required.
- Look for opportunities to continuously improve machine performance.
- To follow set procedures and guidelines with respect to:

- Food safety, Hygiene.

Health and Safety, Lock off etc.
- To assist in colleague training and development when required.
- To ensure that good work practices and housekeeping are adhered to.
- Drive own personal development through training and work based experience.
- To undertake such other duties as may be required from time to time, that reasonably fall within the scope and grade of the post.

**Qualifications**- Experience of working in a food factory environment would be advantageous
- Fully complete apprenticeship is desirable, with packing experience
- Basic computer literacy.
- Able to communicate and motivate others is an essential part of the role. Understanding of internal systems and processes, with the ability to work within these parameters. An understanding of health and safety requirements is essential.
- Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive disposition, and a clear focus on meeting deadlines. Must be flexible in approach to work and undertake overtime during busy periods when required.

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