Reliability Lead

Position Title: Reliability Lead

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID:42288

For over 60 years weve 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 were kind of a big deal!

You wont 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 countrys pubs restaurants hospitals and schools.

We are passionate about potatoes.

But were 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!

Youll drive onsite maintenance improvement to reduce engineering related downtime increase the reliability of our assets and ensure optimal maintenance lifecycle 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 OEMs 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 KPIs. You will require an in-depth understanding of modern maintenance tools and techniques as well as the ability to collect and analyse data.

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR.

Were 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

WHATS IN IT FOR ME

Although we do encourage you to taste the goods youll be pleased to know we dont pay you in chips. For working hard youll 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 tothe competitiveness resilience and long-term development of McCain communitiesacross 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

Youll 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 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 knowand we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

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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