Job Description:
Shift Maintenance Engineer (Multi skilled) - Crown petfood (Mars Petcare)
Castle Cary
£43,600-£46,100 (prorated and including shift allowance, DOE)
+ Performance Bonus & Exceptional Benefits
32 Hours per week (with the choice of additional hours)
Why Join Us?
We care about the world and your future. Mars offers competitive compensation and benefits along with some great perks, like fun freebies and best-in-class development. As a Mars Associate, you have our ongoing commitment to your growth and development as you work across our world-famous brands. The world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today, and we're here to support you every step of the way.
The Role
This is a great opportunity to join the dynamic Engineering Team at our Mars Petcare factory. Your role will focus on hands-on maintenance for specialised pet food processing & packaging equipment, including both mechanical and electrical challenges. The aim of this shift-based role is to problem solve and repair technical faults on the factory equipment. These faults cause lost efficiency and factory downtime, making the Shift Maintenance Engineer a critical & highly responsible role for our site to achieve production targets in a safe and food safe manner.
You will need to collaborate with other shift maintenance engineers, shift operations, and days engineers to maintain and improve future factory performance and asset reliability. This means you will also become involved in longer term improvements and projects to improve reliability on a particular asset, maintenance schedule, or maintenance strategy.
Shift Pattern: 32 Hours per week (with the choice of additional hours)
• Weekend -2x Shifts
Saturday & Sunday alternating weekly between (nights) 10pm-10am & (days) 10am-10pm
• Weekday-1x shift
Mon-Fri 8am-4pm/6am-2pm
What's in it for you?
Competitive salary £43,600-£46,100 (prorated and including shift allowance, DOE)Career growth opportunities with structured development & Mars UniversityPrivate healthcare + equal parental leaveGenerous pension (up to 9% contribution)Life assurance (4x salary)EV salary sacrifice schemeGym membership & wellbeing supportAnnual leave starting at 24 days, rising to 32 with serviceFree perks on site: Parking, Lavazza coffee, tea, fruit twice a week, and access to our employee shop
What We're Looking For
Solid foundation in Engineering & Technical skills, built through a recognized apprenticeship. National Standard level 4 (or relevant level 3) or HNC / HND level in a combined Electrical & Mechanical Engineering discipline. Or Electrical or Mechanical Engineering qualification but with other qualifications / proven experience in the other discipline. Self-sufficient, hands on, and strong problem-solving ability. Systematic root cause analysis of technical issues. Demonstratable experience working in a maintenance or reliability department. Industry Health & Safety knowledge (e.g. LOTO, Risk Assessments & Safe Work Permits)
Key Responsibilities
Perform fault diagnosis & repairs on random failures on production machinery, identifying the root cause in the repair process. Responsibility for technical safety and food safety standards on your shift, supporting the Shift Operations Manager. Provide technical experience and support to the Shift Operations Team. Responsible for overseeing all factory services on shift (including steam, electricity, air, water, and gas) Determine when and which technical issues are escalated to the days team. Complete planned maintenance activities & improvements with smooth transitions from maintenance back to production
What You Can Expect from Mars
Work alongside 130,000+ Associates worldwide guided by our Five PrinciplesBe part of a purpose-driven company shaping "the world we want tomorrow"Access world-class training & development from day oneJoin a company with an industry-leading salary and benefits package
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