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Process Engineer
40 hours per week
Annual salary: Circa £33,000 depending on experience
Monday to Friday, 08:00-16:00
Closing date for applications: Friday 9th February 2024
As a Process Engineer, you will be supporting the site in all aspects of Process engineering, optimisation, CI and BIP. You will support the EPD/NPD process (writing of NIC’s, BOM’s, trial requests, trials reports and specifications etc). You will also lead/manage all aspects of related projects/ trials.
The Worksop Site
The Worksop site was established in 1935, and we have four highly-automated factories on site that produce a variety of well-known brands and products including:
- OXO
- Sauces - including Sharwoods and Homepride
- Batchelors Supernoodles and Sharwoods Poppadoms
- Bisto gravy granules and SAXA salt
We have a workforce of around 500 colleagues.
Some of our benefits include:
- Generous annual holiday allowance
- Generous pension contribution scheme
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Sharesave programme
- On-site subsidised canteen offering a variety of hot/cold meals and snacks
- Employee discount scheme including travel, food and shopping discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- On site Electric Vehicle Charging Point
- Manager and peer recognition programme
- Cycle to work – including excellent bike storage facilities
Main duties and responsibilities include:
- Ensure all Health, Safety and Environmental procedures are followed. Support and enforce standards as set out in the site HSE policies.
- Drive a food safety quality culture through engagement and continuous improvement to maintain and improve the safety, authenticity, legality, and quality of products manufactured on site.
- Lead in the identification and improvement of site processes.
- Collaborate with manufacturing centre teams to drive improvements in yield, waste, and OEE.
- Provide expert knowledge to stakeholders on impact of process changes on operational outputs.
- Utilise awareness of new technologies and developments to drive improvements in site existing technologies and their application to site products and processes.
- Proactively identify and support supply chain scenario development and feasibility studies.
- Manage documentation relating to process specifications.
- Manage process change control.
- Support in innovation implementation – including process innovation projects, process specification for new processes, validation/commissioning support, product data coordination (NIC, BOM and specification processes)
- Support Quality department when required in support of QIR completion, identifying causes of quality issues to provide feasible solutions.
- Use process analysis to proactively identify/reduce quality issues related to CPMU data
What we need from you:
Essential:
- Degree/equivalent in Food Science/Process Engineering.
- CI Toolkit including Multi-variant analysis, DoE, SPC, 5S, TPM, SIC, Process modelling,
- Value stream mapping.
- IT literate – systems orientated.
Desirable:
- Previous experience of working in a CI role
If you would like to discuss the role further, please do not hesitate to contact Amber Hawkins, HR Business Partner – amber.hawkins@premierfoods.co.uk
