Manufacturing Engineer

**About The Role**

Our sites are ever-demanding, complex and in some cases operate 24 hours a day - so it's vital we have a strong Engineering team who ensure our machines work to the best of their ability. So we can provide great product to our customers, whilst still ensuringspeediness.
As an Engineer you’ll be working as part of the production team and all site functions to deliver high asset performance, so the site has a reliable delivery of manufacturing plans and quality products for our customers. You’ll look at yield, training colleagues,hydraulics, pneumatics, PLC’s, inverters and how to make the most out of the machinery to effectively produce.
You’ll also:

- Complete mechanical and electrical maintenance improvements, asset care and fault finding to drive operational excellence
- Identify solutions and design improvements that reduce possible failures
- Develop effective preventive maintenance plans to drive reliability
- Be responsible for system set up and calibration to achieve optimum settings, minimise changeovers and maximise efficiency to ensure production targets are met
- Physically build up machines on production lines
- Work with the operational and engineering team supporting projects, improving plant productivity and root cause breakdown analysis
- Make changes to increase yield and provide raw materials at the right level to meet final pack specification
- Review equipment stoppages working with the suppliers to recommend improvements to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) reducing rework
- Utilise knowledge of products, linked to seasonal variations in crop to drive key decisions in line setup & robotics speeds
- Build relationships and enhance cross functional working with key internal and external stakeholders
- Coach, train and give understanding to production colleagues to achieve continual improvements in equipment knowledge/performance and develop technical skills

Why not take a look around one of our Manufacturing sites?

**About You**

**As well as the ability to work at pace, we're also looking for someone who has**
- Technical hands-on engineering experience, preferably through an apprenticeship or NVQ in mechanical/electrical engineering
- A broad Knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical or electrical & PLC/inverter assets
- Skills and capability to logically diagnose and fault find on a variety of equipment/situations
- Knowledge and competency to write Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s)
- Strong root cause analysis and understanding of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
- Experience of engineering and fault finding from a FMCG or manufacturing environment (ideally the food industry).
- Excellent communication skills
- Assertive, with the ability to make decisions on the spot
- A can do attitude and a strong work ethic

In return you'll get competitive pay rates, up to 6 weeks holiday (including bank holidays) and many benefits including a 15% discount card for you and 2 10% cards for friends or family members giving you up to 15% off your shopping in Morrisons. We alsooffer Cash Back Discounts, Retirement Saver, Free Life Assurance and much more.

**About the site**

When it comes to careers, our unique 28,000 square foot Rathbones bakery in Wakefield offers something to suit just about every taste.
It's our only bakery which means it's always incredibly busy. Our 400 strong team works 24/7 to produce 47 different products, from hot cross buns and seeded loaves to delicious orange and cranberry muffins, crumpets, pancakes, naans, pittas, and more.
Not to mention frozen products for our in-store bakeries and, of course, our famous Rathbones Toastie. With lots of different roles, a wide choice of shift patterns, and plenty of challenges, it has variety well and truly baked in.

**About The Company**

From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer.

We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK at just under 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgersand bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet.