Reliability Lead

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Wombourne, Staffordshire, England, GBR
In-Office
Mid level
Food • Retail • Agriculture • Manufacturing
At McCain Foods we know the importance that food plays in people's lives.
The Role
The Reliability Lead will drive reliability improvement programs, conduct data analysis, reduce downtime, improve maintenance lifecycle cost, and coach maintenance staff.
Summary Generated by Built In
Position Title: Reliability Lead
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 42288
For over 60 years we've been the number one branded player in frozen potato market. When it comes to bringing the nation together at mealtimes with simple, delicious, and great tasting food we're kind of a big deal!
You won't just find us in supermarkets though. As well as owning a household retail brand, our respected foodservice business works in close partnership with distributors, chefs and caterers across thousands of the country's pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools.
We are passionate about potatoes.
But we're even more passionate about our People!
Come and ENGINEER your career at McCain Foods.
ABOUT THE JOB.
Our Reliability Supervisors drive reliability improvement programs across our plants. They use accurate data analysis (from Power Bi and SAP) to work closely with our plant teams to ensure we reduce any food safety or maintenance related incidents - as they say, prevention is better than the cure!
You'll drive onsite maintenance improvement to reduce engineering related downtime, increase the reliability of our assets and ensure optimal maintenance lifecycle cost. You will also conduct root cause analysis, ensuring agreed corrective actions are implemented across the plant.
You will also be responsible for...
  • Identification of the current pain points and developing improvement strategies.
  • Improve uptime and lower maintenance cost by maintaining assets optimally in the maintenance life cycle.
  • Work closely with the Shift Operations team to ensure plant issues are identified, understood and appropriate actions are planned, prioritised and executed in a timely manner.
  • Build and maintain an in-depth understanding of the manufacturing plant, processes and priorities, key bottlenecks and opportunity areas to aid the prioritisation of work.
  • Leverage the skills of the total site team, making effective use of support functions and accessing expertise in other shift teams in order to generate total site solutions to issues.
  • Use communication to engage and motivate your team.
  • Coach and engage maintenance employees to ensure they perform to an acceptable standard, operate in accordance with site systems and policies and have a reliability focus to work activities.
  • Work closely with key OEM's, contractors and specialists to drive improvements and ensure services meet site requirements.
  • Developing, implementing and maintaining the planned maintenance programme for site assets based on agreed targets and KPI's. You will require an in-depth understanding of modern maintenance tools and techniques as well as the ability to collect and analyse data.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
We're looking for an engineering supervisor with experience of Computerised Maintenance Management Systems who has team leadership experience and a proven coaching and mentoring management style.
As well as a love of chips, our ideal candidate will also have....
  • The following relevant engineering qualifications (or equivalent):
  • HNC or equivalent in appropriate mechanical/electrical discipline - Essential
  • IOSH Managing Safely/NEBOSH General Certificate - Essential
  • Knowledge of CMMS review and improvement - Essential
  • HACCP - Desirable
  • Advanced Food Hygiene - Desirable
  • Knowledge of energy and carbon reduction technology - Desirable

WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. For working hard, you'll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:
  • An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
  • Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
  • Optional health cash plan
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • 'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe

And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5 year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.
WHAT HOURS WILL I WORK?
The role is primarily Monday to Friday dayshift, 40 hours per week
WHERE WILL I WORK?
You'll be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together our small, but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Engineering & Technical
Division: GB Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Department: Maintenance Engineering
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd

Skills Required

  • HNC or equivalent in mechanical/electrical discipline
  • IOSH Managing Safely/NEBOSH General Certificate
  • Knowledge of CMMS review and improvement
  • HACCP
  • Advanced Food Hygiene
  • Knowledge of energy and carbon reduction technology

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The Company
HQ: Florenceville-Bristol, NB
20,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1957

What We Do

The power it has to uplift and bring people, Guided by our purpose - Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food - we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $10 billion. Through our investment and innovation, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers. We are passionate about supporting and developing our people-providing opportunities to grow and learn in their roles, as well as building careers for the long term.

Why Work With Us

We are working to bring digital tools and data into our processes to drive efficiency, automation and data-driven insights. From connecting our business, enabling our supply chain, supporting our customers, to reinventing agriculture. So if you are a tech expert looking to join a company transforming technology, think of McCain.

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