Electrical Engineer

Newport, Gwent

£19 - £22/hour

ROGERSTONE, NEWPORT;
Bakery – Shift Engineer-Electrical Bias/multi-skilled

Work Hours - 42hrs per week

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off- (2 days- 06:00am-18:00pm & 2 nights 18:00pm-06:00am)

Rate of pay: Negotiable dependant on experience.

About us:

David Wood Foods is a leading food manufacturing company with over 20 years’ experience in the bakery business.
We currently produce a range of quality frozen 'bake off' and craft bakery products encompassing Savoury Pastry, Sweet Pastry, Bread, Morning Goods and Confectionery products from seven cutting-edge bakeries around the UK.

About the role:

Due to company expansion we are looking to recruit a Shift Engineer for our fully automated bread plant based in Rogerstone, primarily to support the running of the factory by resolving breakdowns and by delivering maintenance.

Key Responsibilities:

To provide a hands on role resolving immediate problems ensuring continuity of production and limitation of waste or damaged product.
Proactively identify and solve problems on the plant to increase reliability and efficiency.
Keep up-to-date with Best Practice and CI Initiatives.
To document all breakdowns and repairs.
To utilise the planned preventive maintenance system to ensure all the production equipment is maintained regularly.
To aid in project work when requested by the senior engineers.
To ensure technical investigations into all breakdowns establishing the route cause analysis and the remedial action required.
Ensure compliance with all statutory requirement including all Health and Safety issues.
To work safely at all times using the correct PPE as required in the risk assessments for each particular task.
To communicate to the production shift manager indicating realistic timescales on major breakdowns to keep production informed of the progress of the breakdown.

Key skills/Experience

Are you a trained electrically biased multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer.
Experience of working with high volume bakery manufacturing equipment (mixers, moulders, ovens, slicers, chillers, conveyors) would be ideal.
Are you qualified to HNC/BTEC or an equivalent in the electrical discipline?
Do you have experience within the Food Manufacturing sector or other FMCG engineering environment?
Do you possess excellent fault finding skills and are you able to demonstrate experience of planned and reactive maintenance work with basic PLC knowledge.
Are you self-motivated, a good team player and have the ability to solve problems effectively and efficiently.

Benefits: