Shift Engineer

4 months ago


Saint Neots, United Kingdom Hotel Chocolat Full time

As we continue our mission to make people happy through chocolate, we’re looking for a  Shift Engineer - Nights  to join our  Engineering   Team  on a  permanent  basis.

As a Shift Engineer, you will be providing engineering services that are key to maintaining and improving operational performance, safety, legality, and compliance. Working as part of our Engineering Team, you will support production in delivering world class levels of service within our wider Operations Team.

A lot goes into what we do here at Hotel Chocolat to ensure we continue making the chocolate we all know and love, you will provide vital work on various types of equipment including chocolate depositors / CAD machines, conveyors, chillers, robot pick & place machines and metal detectors – just to name a few

If you’re someone who is passionate about driving quality and thrives in an environment and company with great ambitions, then we would love to hear from you.

This role will operate a  permanent night shift pattern of 21:30 to 06:00 Sunday to Thursday.

Salary:  up to £60,000 per annum (dependent on experience).

As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and Company pension contributions, you’ll receive  50%  discount on all products, and a  70%  discount for you and your guests when you stay at our Rabot Estate hideaway on the paradise island of Saint Lucia.

The on-site location for this role is at our Distribution Centre ‘Alpha’, in  St. Neots , Cambridgeshire. In addition at certain times dependant on workload you may be expected to work at our Manufacturing Site at Hadley Park in Huntingdon.

What you’ll be doing….

Carry out reactive and preventative maintenance schedules on a range of manufacturing equipment including over wrappers, carton erectors, robots heating tunnels. Perform fault finding and diagnosis exercises and then acting upon any underlying root cause issues. Support on any continuous improvement projects whilst adopting lean processes to deliver optimal return on investment. Carry out regular inspections, diagnosing and resolving any electrical or mechanical faults. Ensure compliance with Safety, Health and Environmental requirements. Ensuring that Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) standards are maintained, guaranteeing food safety priority in all works carried out. Liaise with the Projects Team to ensure new equipment orders are fully integrated within line operations. Design and implement innovative controls and procedures to support Hotel Chocolat’s continuous improvement mindset.

Who you are…

Essential

Multi skilled engineer with electrical bias experience (To a minimum NVQ Level 3). Time served apprenticeship in a relevant discipline, plus industrial experience. Experience in Food Safe Manufacturing Environment. Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Desirable

Experience in a fast paced, highly dynamic production facility (FMCG). Robust self-awareness, communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to plan, organise and work on multiple tasks simultaneously. Any welding/fabricating skills would be a great addition to the team.

Who are we?

We’re one of the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brands, with a range of products spanning luxury gifts, alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system, the Velvetiser™.

A cacao pod takes years to grow – it can’t be rushed if it’s going to be just right for our products. The same can be said for Hotel Chocolat, which originally started as a mint production company before we realised it was luxury chocolate that we were really passionate about.

Now, we’re market leaders in the industry. What began as an online-only business grew to over 100 stores across the UK, and we’re still growing… Today, we’re multi-category, multi-channel, and multi-territory, and our customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers all benefit from the success we make together.


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