Engineer - Manufacturing Technician

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Manufacturing Technician (Engineer), Based Whittlesey, PeterboroughWe are passionate about potatoes. But were even more passionate about our People!We feature in two out of every three householdsthats over 18million homes across Britain! On average, each household bought one of our products 8 times last year. We starred in over 144 million shopping tripsroughly 1.2 billion meals. So when itcomes to bringing the nation together at mealtimes with simple, delicious and great tasting food were kind of a big deal!Come and ENGINEER your career at McCain Foods.Its your job as Manufacturing Technician (Engineer) to work with the plants shift teams to ensure efficient running of the machinery and equipment day-to-day. Our quality is what makes McCain, and your role would play a huge part in ensuring optimum plantefficiency to deliver the quality and quantity to make us one of the UKs favourite food products.We have ambitious plans. And whilst we expect machines will break down once in a while, we believe prevention is better than the cure. Which is why we created these roles in the first place. We dont just want our engineering team to be fixing things.We want you at the forefront of our plants, knowing how our machines are running and help us come up with new and improved ways of doing it faster and better, which is why continuous improvement and reliability will pay a huge part in your role.If youre applying to our Manufacturing Technicians role then youll already be a qualified Engineer doing a similar job, so we dont want to point out the obvious. Youll already know the importance of health and safety and hygiene. And youll know itsvital that you record machine efficiencies relating to Quality, Delivery and Cost, and problem solve ways to stop it happening in the future.Teamwork is important to us. Our People working together is what makes us successful at what we do. And this role of Manufacturing Technician is one of the driving forces behind this. Your ability to bring along people with you is just what were lookingfor.But you must also have The relevant engineering qualifications: Time served apprenticeship NVQ 3 / BTEC 3 in related Engineering discipline HNC or equivalent Experience in a relevant engineering role e.g. Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical / Electrical Engineer, Shift Engineer. PLC modules 1 and 2 (desirable) IOSH/NEBOSH certificate (desirable) Knowledge of SCADA or similar systems Experience in leading continuous improvement activity in a similar role Experience in control logic fault finding The ability to work under pressure and at speed Strong organisation and prioritisation skillsWe also know youll what to know what youll be working. Our shifts are typically 12-hours, working 2 days on, 1 day off, 2 nights on, 3 days off. Each of our plants differ in operating hours. We can give you more information if youre successful to thenext stage.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, bonus, health care options; and of coursea great environment to learn and develop.McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world inwhich we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.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 know and we will work with you to meet your needs.Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Privacy PolicyKey words: Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical / Electrical Engineer, Shift Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Manufacturing Technician