Shift Engineer

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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
Perform first-line mechanical and electrical maintenance on factory equipment, record work in CMMS, use root cause analysis to fix issues, support shutdowns, and suggest reliability and efficiency improvements while adhering to safety and company procedures.
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Position Title:Shift Engineer
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43796
Shift Maintenance Engineer
Wombourne
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
Our Maintenance Engineers work as part of a multi-disciplined team carrying out first line maintenance tasks and improvements on equipment throughout the factory efficiently and effectively. You'll provide feedback on completed tasks into the engineering maintenance system to ensure equipment histories and costs are kept up to date and to enable follow up work to be identified and planned.
What you'll be doing.
  • Consider all implications when carrying out designated tasks to minimise wasted time and materials
  • Have a "Fix it right, now" work ethic and use Root Cause Analysis to determine the underlying reasons behind
  • problems and failures and act on the findings
  • Be observant at all times when in the plant and report any deficiencies that cannot be rectified
  • Provide and implement ideas to improve manufacturing, efficiency and equipment reliability
  • Work safely, with regard for your duty of care to yourself and to others who may be affected by your work. Adhere
  • to company policies and procedures at all times
  • Work in liaison with other departments as required and provide support and assistance where possible
  • Enter accurate, detailed feedback on all completed tasks into the CMMS on a daily basis
  • Work closely with your Line Manager to ensure the smooth execution of both day-to-day maintenance tasks and
  • shutdown work
  • Ensure the upkeep and reliability of all plant and equipment in your shifts designated area by feeding back
  • requirements to your Line Manager
  • To identify through knowledge and analysis, areas that will contribute to improved product quality or plant
  • efficiency
  • Playing a pivotal role in communicating and co-ordinating the activities associated with change

What you'll need to be successful.
We're looking for Shift Engineers with strong electrical or mechanical skills, but ideally both. It's a given that you will have time served as an engineer - working in a busy maintenance department, preferably within a food manufacturing department.
You will also have...
• BTEC/ NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or equivalent - essential
• Time served apprenticeship in an Engineering discipline - essential
• Qualification in additional engineering disciplines (NVQ L3 / City & Guilds) - desirable
• Broad knowledge of modern maintenance techniques - essential
• Practical engineering experience- essential
Benefits of the role.
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
  • 25 days annual leave - including bank holidays
  • 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. Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We're big believers in the power of working together in person-it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team.
About the team.
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.
About McCain .
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles .
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience .
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
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
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Wombourne
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Skills Required

  • BTEC/ NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or equivalent
  • Time served apprenticeship in an Engineering discipline
  • Strong electrical or mechanical skills (ideally both)
  • Broad knowledge of modern maintenance techniques
  • Practical engineering experience
  • Experience working in a busy maintenance department (preferably food manufacturing)
  • Qualification in additional engineering disciplines (NVQ L3 / City & Guilds)

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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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