Job Specification
The Job You’ll Do;
- To maintain all plant, equipment and facilities to ensure minimal disruption and cost to site.
- Control departmental budgets with support from Operations Manager.
- Provide engineering support for the surrounding areas and Glasshouse, working closely with the Growers and Glasshouse Manager.
- To ensure Health and Safety of all engineering tasks are maintained on site with records kept up to date to comply with legislation and to be audit ready.
- Ensure site has adequate breakdown cover during out of hours, weekends and bank holidays.
- Provide support and mentor the current engineering apprentice.
- Carry out repairs to all types of plant and equipment in a safe, timely and professional manner.
- Develop and manage planned preventative maintenance schedules (PPM).
- Operate maintenance Forklift Truck and Elevated Working Platform as required.
- Assist visiting specialist engineers as necessary.
- Report breakdown root cause, equipment faults and concerns to management.
- Plan / prioritize workload to support production and ensure efficient use of working time.
- Assist with the moving, installation, repositioning of machines and equipment.
- Ensure the site has adequate spares in line with agreed stock levels.
- Ensure contractor control for all engineering tasks is correctly managed.
- Ensure all Engineering risk assessments are completed.
- Maintain the on-site caravans and complete necessary repairs.
- Maintain list of capital spend required for continual improvement through CAPEX.
- Be able to travel to other sites to give support if and when required.
- Typical example of work would be to respond to maintenance request for equipment fault, diagnose fault repair and return equipment to operational service.
About You;
- Good IT skills – competent in Excel/Word/ and Power point.
- 18th Edition electrical qualification.
- Electrical Bias would be preferable with good Mechanical skills.
- Good communicator
- Well organised and professional approach.
- Able to escalate anything major in a timely professional way.
- Able to deliver to agreed timescales.