Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Location: On site / Lansil Way, Lancaster LA1 3QY
, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry and Food Processing | General
Salary: Competitive salary

We are seeking a highly motivated Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to join our dynamic team at our Lancaster Mill . This exciting opportunity is ideal for someone enthused about the maintenance of a large animal feed mill.

Every day we provide rural and agricultural communities with the support they need to succeed. Whether they are after a healthier herd or flock, increased yields, faster growth rates, a decent return on their land or even just a helping hand. We have the people, products, and services to help our customers get from where they are now to where they want to be.

This is why every role at Carr’s Billington is hugely important to our shared success and why we welcome talent from across all different backgrounds to work across our retail, feed, machinery, fuel and central support divisions.

Carr’s Billington Agriculture is a subsidiary company of The Billington Group, who are also the proud owner of Criddle & Co., English Provender Company and Billington Foods.

Responsible for carrying out maintenance activities as part of the wider engineering team. Maintenance activities will be a mixture of planned and reactive and will include fault finding, PPMsand repairs. Engage with other stakeholders withinthe operations business to ensure the smooth running of the plant whilst meeting allH&S, feedsafetyand environmental requirements.

• Ensure that you and other Engineers work safely and efficiently across all areas of the site, fully complying with company procedures and upholding the company’s standards for Safety, Quality, and Hygiene.
• Ensure all operating procedures, statutory requirements, and company policies are adhered to. This includes, but is not limited to, UFAS accreditation and other relevant assurance schemes.
• Work in accordance with the Permit to Work system, ensuring all maintenance activities are planned and executed with safety as the highest priority.
• Respond promptly to reactive maintenance requirements, expediting repairs in a safe and timely manner to minimise disruption to operations.
• Minimise plant downtime caused by mechanical failure through effective fault diagnosis, timely repair, and preventative maintenance.
• Carry out maintenance activities in line with the company’s planned maintenance system and schedules, ensuring all plant and machinery are maintained to a standard that enables safe, efficient, and reliable production.
• Maintain appropriate levels of engineering spares, ensuring foreseeable interruptions to production are avoided.
• Participate in the site on-call maintenance rota, providing out-of-hours support when required.
• Participate in and support the planning and execution of planned maintenance shutdowns, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and to schedule.
• Ensure that all work areas are maintained in a clean, tidy, and safe condition at all times.
• Take a proactive approach to continuous professional development, maintaining and enhancing engineering skills and knowledge.
• Always adhere to Company and Group policies and procedures, including those relating to Safety, Health, and Environmental compliance.
• To ensure all relevant legislation and approved codes of practice are adhered to in respect of ongoing compliance, including but not limited to UFAS, FIAS & NOPS assurance schemes.

• Engineering experience within a bulk handling production environment
• Responds positively to changing business priorities, and able to remain calm when under pressure
• Have a working knowledge of standard H&S practices (hot works,…