engineer Thetford, England
Job description
Engineering Team Leader
Continental Shift / 4on 4off Days 0700 - 1900 / Nights 1900 - 0700
£47,300
This role is for an Engineering Team Leader based at our Value Added Thetford site.
Main ResponsibilitiesAs an Engineering Team Leader you will:
- As an Engineering Team Leader, you will lead the Engineers on shift and provide technical expertise in solving and fixing equipment breakdowns. You will ensure that your team of Engineers will work safely and comply with the site H&S rules.
- Plan and prioritise the shift workload for the engineering team to enable production targets to be achieved by maximising machinery up time
- Execute the planned preventative maintenance schedule to maximise machinery up time and minimise disruption to production targets
- Ensure all plant and equipment adhere to all relevant legislation and so that a safe working environment is maintained all times
- Ensure the shift engineering team adhere to good manufacturing practices (GMP) ensuring compliance with manufacturing unit food safety requirements
- Apprentice trained or hold equivalent engineering qualifications
- Supervisory experience
- Proven electrical / mechanical maintenance skills and experience
- From a manufacturing environment - Food / FMCG desirable but not essential
- Proactive with an improvements driven mind set
- Excellent team player and communicator
Our Thetford operation is a breaded/coated product centre of excellence. As a value added, non-kill site we have no live animals or butchery onsite. It uses best in class equipment, which enables the site to deliver significant environmental benefits. The low-energy building is the flagship development within the 2 Sisters group.
2 Sisters Food Group is one of the UK’s biggest food manufacturers providing great tasting products to the nation, from chicken to cookies and pizza to pies!
With 18 sites in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. We employ over 13,500 staff, all of whom have the opportunity to progress as we focus on promoting from within and you can be part of that too.
Knowing that our business is only as good as the people we employ, we ensure that we invest in people like you to enhance skills and professional development.
Package Description- Company Bus Service from Norwich, Attleborough, Wymondham and Thetford Centre
- Exclusive 2 Sisters employee discount - offering savings of up to 60% with brands including Asda, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer and Tesco.
- 50% off your total bill in all of our group restaurant brands
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free onsite parking
- Hot food available on site plus free hot drinks
- Employee of the Month awards
- Fantastic development opportunities available for promotion and career development
- In-house training
