Engineering Team Leader

Role Description

Princes Bradford is recruiting for an Engineering Team Leader to join the business. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to work for our Bradford site which is a powerhouse for soft drinks production. This position offers a fantastic shift pattern meaning you have every weekend off and some long weekends the way the shift pattern lands. We are also offering a highly competitive salary for a days position - no night shifts!

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Asset Care Manager, this role is responsible for proactively managing a shift of technicians to ensure that equipment performance is maximised and optimised. The role ensures that as well as all planned activity being executed, responses to breakdowns and associated RCA and corrective action are undertaken in a timely and professional manner. All practices must be implemented and operate within Health, Safety & Environmental legislation and site policies and procedures as appropriate.

The Role Coordinates The Asset Care Element Of The Engineering Function On Shift, To Help The Site Achieve Optimal Operational Efficiency At Lowest Cost Through The Delivery Of Targets Against The Strategic Objectives Of The Group Supply Function:

• Quality
• Cost
• Delivery
• Safety
• People

Working Hours

This is a shift position working 7am - 7pm working 4 days on then 5 days off, then 3 days on then 2 days off then it starts again. This means you get every weekend off and no night shifts! You also get long weekends within the month the way the 5 days off land.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• 22 days annual leave
• 14.5% Pension – 5% Employee Opt In, 9.5% Employer Contribution
• Flexible holidays – the option to buy 5 additional days
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policy
• Critical Illness Cover
• Learning & Development Opportunities

Dimensions

• Shared responsibility for the R&R budget for the site
• Direct reports & PPM team as required
• Training hours vs skills payback
• Support for the Apprenticeship development framework across the site

Principal Responsibilities

Key Relationships

• Asset Care Manager, Maintenance Planning, PPM team ETL, Shift Operations Manager Engineering Team, Manufacturing Team, Quality Team, Logistics team and Site services team when applicable. CI when applicable for training and development, Reliability Engineer, Site Electrical Duty Holder, Site Engineering Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Safety, Quality, Hygiene
• Undertake duties in a responsible manner giving due consideration to Safety, Environmental & Quality procedures, which form part of the Integrated Management System.
• Ensure work undertaken conforms to legislative requirements.
• Embrace a culture of safe behaviour and contractor health and safety within the production and engineering areas.
• Support a culture enhancing behavioural awareness to reduce accidents, incidents and near misses.
• Promote the identification and reporting of hazards and unsafe conditions.
• Asset Management
• To manage the shift team to provide fast and effective response to all breakdowns across the shift.
• Ensure ERCA’s are raised and closed out for all stoppages as per agreed departmental time execution triggers.
• Execute the planned asset care activities as directed from the Maintenance Planning team working in conjunction with the PPM team ETL.
• Support the Asset Care Manager in the development of efficient and effective asset care programs to champion availability across the site, standardising the asset care approach with the drive to ensure effective maintenance systems, in line with the Group PMS Roadmap & the Maturity Matrix site development tool.
• Support the development of the asset care strategy for the site around the Princes interpretation of the JIPM model involving AM, PRM and EEM.
• To proactively support the drive the transition from reactive to proactive with targets of 80% of Engineering work planned in advance, 20% of engineering time on C.I. with 75% known utilisation of engineers.
• Ensuring cost of maintenance and maintaining assets is transparent and known.
• Support by actively embracing and utilising SAP PM and other systems to drive planning and control and focussed improvements.
• Primary Manufacturing Process Equipment with secondary…