Engineering Supervisor (Days)

Engineering Supervisor

4 on 4 off shift pattern. Days: 06:00-18:00

(Cranswick Country Foods, Preston, HU12 8TB)

Cranswick is a leading UK food producer with revenue of over £2 Billion. We produce and supply premium food to high profile UK grocery retailers, the food service sector and other UK and global customers.

An exciting new opportunity has arisen within the engineering team at our Preston site near Hull as an Engineering Supervisor. Our site engineering team is passionate about delivering the best quality products, efficiently, safely and sustainably. To achieve this, we are constantly developing our team with on-going personal development training in place to upskill individuals to support our ever-growing site. With recent and upcoming industry leading innovation projects throughout the site we are implementing new methods to support our maintenance strategy.

Main duties include (but not limited to):

• Manage the planned preventative maintenance systems and culture for all areas including PPM schedules for all plant and equipment, management of data regarding machine breakdowns, fault analysis and update of PPM procedures
• Ensure that operational efficiencies and effectiveness are continuously improved with consequential reduced operating costs
• Ensure that quality, health and safety and environmental standards are developed, maintained and enhanced and are fully complied with by contractors and staff
• Maintain and develop the building, environment and plant including heating, ventilation, fire protection equipment and plant, pipework and plumbing, alarm systems, security systems to ensure a safe working environment for all staff and visitors
• Timely and accurately support communications between the shifts
• Ensure equipment operates at a standard in order to achieve the customer’s required product specification
• Technical input to assist in the delivery of projects and initiatives which will impact the profitability of the business
• Control the activities of contract labour and inspect the quality of their work
• Supervise engineering staff’s activities during production morning start up
• Plan weekend maintenance and ensure spares are available in advance
• Co-ordinate workshop activities
• Work with technical on all audit work
• Attend major breakdowns
• Control and organise building fabric maintenance repair work
• Play an active part in the site’s Health and Safety committee
• Co-ordinate the engineering shift’s work activities
• Continually appraise staff performance and take appropriate actions when required
• Deal with staff issues with discretion and confidentially
• Manage holidays to ensure correct manning level’s at all times

We can offer;

• Excellent and competitive rates of pay
• Strong commitment to progression and personal development through department specific training matrix. This will include machine specific training and upskilling.
• Profit sharing through discounted share scheme
• Hassle free auto-enrolment into company pension scheme including enhanced contribution options
• Access to the Cranswick Package which includes Cycle to Work Scheme, Free Parking, Discounted products, ‘Feed your Wellbeing’ platform, ‘Hapi’ discounts app and buying extra holiday entitlement

A full job description is available upon request. Salary to be discussed at interview stage.

If you are an internal applicant, please ensure you have made your line manager aware before applying and confirm this when submitting your application.

To apply, please submit your covering letter and CV to: CCF.Careers@Cranswick.co.uk

Closing Date: 20th March 2024

Please note that if a suitable candidate is found, this closing date may be brought forward

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Profit sharing

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift

Work Location: In person