Manufacturing Technician

Job description

Manufacturing Technician
Salary: £28-33k
Crumlin, Wales
Permanent

Background, Company Overview and Main Job Purpose:

Unilever UK Foods are currently looking for TWO Skilled Engineering Technicians to join their team. The roles are permanent and required urgently. Based on a variety of shift patterns as flexibility is required. Basic hourly rate is £12.19, which carries variable shift pattern and premiums as follows:

Shift A & B - 6am to 2pm / 2pm to 10pm alternating week by week 38hrs – Mon to Fri - Shift Premium – 15%

Shift C – 10pm to 6am fixed 38hrs – shift premium 35%

Shift D – 6am to 6pm fixed 36hrs – Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Saturday, Sunday, Monday - shift Premium -20%

Shift E – 6pm to 6am Saturday, Sunday night with one additional weekday shift to support planned maintenance – 36hrs - Shift Premium 40%

We are seeking an experienced shift Engineer to support Unilever's Food Manufacturing Site based in Crumlin Gwent. The ideal candidate will have experience working within a Food Manufacturing environment. Ideally you will be a dual trained engineer 70/30 electrically biased. As a shift based engineering technician, you will apply your skills and experience working within a fast paced performance culture to support manufacturing processes to achieve business targets with a continuous improvement mindset. Proactively removing line stop opportunities and reacting to breakdowns if they occur. This also includes performing planned maintenance activities during line stops across the operations in line with the maintenance plan.

Professional Skills and Experience Required:

Dual skilled engineer – Electrically biased with a hands on approach.
Experience as a shift technician / engineer within a Manufacturing environment – preferably food but not essential.
Ideally, with a working knowledge of TPM or other best practice .
Experience working with PLC Controls (Allen Bradley & Siemens) a distinct advantage.
Knowledge/Experience working with pneumatic systems, steam raising boilers, pumps, belts, conveyors, transmissions, motors, invertors drives, electrical sensors, switches and assoc' control gear, safety circuits.

Key Competencies:

Able to multi-task and manage multiple priorities.
Ability to work independently, proactively and as a team member.
Resilience and tenacity to deliver.
Strong IT skills, particularly in MS Office suite.

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Unilever is a global Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company in the UK and Ireland. We are already on target to achieve our huge ambition to double the size of our business globally whilst reducing our environmental impact. We are growing our business and also doing what is right for our consumers, community and environment. We are developing brands for people's lives today and for the changing environment tomorrow - making sustainable living commonplace.

Working at Unilever means that you get to take part in this exciting journey and work with amazing people who are really passionate about our large portfolio of famous brands. We want to improve billions of lives and you too can join us in making a sustainable difference.

HOW TO APPLY

to apply now, click on “Apply to this job”. All candidate applications are reviewed in accordance with the criteria outlined for the job role. Please note that the closing date for the receipt of applications is 3rd March 2017

Candidates who have applied online can track their application through the candidate tracking link or, if you have any additional queries, you may contact the Recruitment hotline number on 0800 0284390.