Maintenance Engineer

5 months ago

Huntingdon, United Kingdom Hotel Chocolat Full time

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

As a Maintenance 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. As part of our dedicated Engineering team, you will provide vital reactive and proactive 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.

Salary: £50,000 per annum

Shift Pattern: rotating weekly shift pattern of 5:30am – 2pm and 1:30pm – 10pm Monday to Friday. (operating on a 1 weekend in 6 weekend call-out rota).

As well as a competitive salary and a range of company benefits, 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 onsite location for this role is at our Factory ‘Hadley Park’, in Huntingdon , Cambridgeshire, right in the heart of where our chocolates are made and where weekly, we can produce between 4 to 6 million of the chocolates we all know and love.

Hadley Park is just 5 minutes off the A141 and 1.3 miles from Huntingdon train station, with direct rail links to London King’s Cross.

What you’ll be doing….

Carry out reactive and preventative maintenance schedules on a range of manufacturing equipment including holding tanks, depositors, CAD machines, robots, spiral chillers, conveyors, temperer machines, enrobers etc. Perform fault finding and diagnosis exercises and then acting upon any underlying root cause issues. 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. Carry out regular inspections, diagnosing and resolving any electrical or mechanical faults. Support on any continuous improvement projects whilst adopting lean processes to deliver optimal return on investment. Liaise with the Projects Team to ensure new equipment orders are fully integrated within line operations. Support innovations for cost and energy reduction. Design and implement innovative controls and procedures to support Hotel Chocolat’s continuous improvement mindset. To maintain accurate and timely records of all work carried out, including passing of detailed information upon handover between shifts.

Who you are…

Essential

Multi skilled engineer with electrical bias experience (To a minimum NVQ Level 3). Experience of working in a Food Safe Manufacturing Environment. Experience within a FMCG 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. Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment. 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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