Engineering Team Leader

About Princes The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

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 2 weekends off in each month.

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

Works closely with the Site Asset Care Manager, Maintenance Manager, Planner and Shift Operational Manager to support the delivery of an agreed Group Asset Care Strategy for the site.

This is a shift position working a rotating Panama shift, with blocks of 12 hour days and nights.

• 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

• 22 Days Annual Leave
• 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
• Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Critical Illness Cover
• Learning & Development Opportunities

• Asset Care Manager, Maintenance 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.

• 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…