Shift Engineer

Job description

Job Title: Shift Engineer
Salary: £33,142 + 40% allowance
Benefits: 25 days holiday, BUPA Healthcare, Pension
Location: Port Sunlight, North West England

COMPANY OVERVIEW


“I'm passionate about making production more sustainable and at Unilever I'm given the freedom and confidence to take the important small steps that will make the giant leaps possible.” Amanda, Making Plant Leader.
Unilever is the global company behind powerhouse brands such as Flora, Dove, Persil and PG Tips. We have the huge ambition of halving our environmental footprint and doubling our size through our Sustainable Living Plan. And big ideas like the innovations taking place in our Supply Chain are driving our business. But to achieve this, we need more outstanding people like Amanda. With over 35 brands in the UK covering foods, home, personal care and refreshments the scale and scope of activity in Supply Chain is huge. All offer rewarding opportunities to work with great products – taking on real challenges, making a lasting impact, and creating better futures.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are currently recruiting for Shift Engineers within our team at Port Sunlight who will be involved in sustaining line performance through: owning preventative maintenance standards and completion; managing tagging by encouraging all to raise them and then prioritisation and completion through the engineering team; reducing short term losses through quick resolution of machine breakdowns; and driving a zero loss mindset through engineering work order initiation and completion.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Actively participate in the preventative maintenance planning for the area, ensuring that all work is risk assessed, appropriate resource is available and utilised and the tasks can occur without conflicting requirements.

• Take part in regular inspections/audits for good housekeeping/5S and machine safety and ensure agreed action are completed

• Setup equipment to manufacture products in accordance with quality procedures and standards to achieve the product quality targets at minimal waste levels (inc change-overs).

• Take immediate actions (adjustment) to rectify issues that have a negative impact on quality

• Complete improvement activities prioritised by the Focussed Technician to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

• Support the AM activities (eg tagging, lubricating, deep cleaning, generating OPLs, cell meetings, step audits, board updating, elimination of contamination sources and elimination of hard to access areas)

• Be proactive on the cell/team meetings and bring relevant issues for discussion and provide suggestions for improvement

• Perform 5S audit according to the defined schedule and implement the improvement actions

• Complete engineering work orders using Quick Kaizen Tools and Techniques within 1 week of breakdown. Transfer to FT to complete if more advanced Kaizen tools are required.

• Look to reduce frequency and time of PM schedules through improvements or loss reduction
• Ensure good quality information on breakdown reports and engineering work orders are raised as required.

• Pro-actively support world class manufacturing pillar activities providing feedback and promoting application on the site

• Actively participate in relevant line changes using appropriate project management tools to ensure efficient and successful project management

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential:


Candidates should be time served apprentices and have a minimum NVQ level 3 in Engineering
Proven experience in a similar role
Multi skilled engineering experience (mechanical, electrical and software)
Understanding of 5S, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement

Desirable :
FMCG background
Experience working with liquids

Competencies:
• Accountability & Responsibility
• Growth Mindset
• Consumer and Customer Focus
• Bias for Action
• Building Talent & Teams

OVERVIEW OF COMPANY


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

Hear more stories from our Unilever Makers and understand how you can start your own Unilever career at: http://www.unilever.co.uk/careers-jobs/professionals/
Or 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: Monday 31st October 2016 .
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.