Lead Shift Engineer

The Lead Shift Engineer is accountable for prioritizing and completing engineering maintenance, repairs and continuous improvement of manufacturing equipment, plant, and facilities on a day-to-day basis. To ensure the delivery of production volumes and efficiencies whilst maintaining high safety and quality standards.

 The Lead Shift Engineer will take a lead in H&S and be of technical assistance to the Operating and Hygiene teams.

 Maintain and repair all plant & equipment.

• Provide an effective and rapid solution to down time.
• Request appropriate parts and spares, using the correct Stores procedures.
• Ensure that any potential problems are reported and subsequently followed up.
• Generate and complete work orders using the maintenance system.
• Ensure all relevant work is accurately recorded on the maintenance system.
• Carry out maintenance as and when the situation dictates.
• Inform your line manager of the cause, and anticipated duration of down time.
• Provide technical support when requested.
• Assist in-house or contract labour on engineering projects.
• Assist in commissioning.

Key Accountabilities 

• Act as lead for shift team, ensuring that the technicians are deployed to maximise production and reduce downtime.
• Deputise for Engineering Supervisor when required, to include weekend supervision. Organising and deploying Technician team for Production running requirements when required according to the priority list.
• Role model for Health Safety & Environment and Food Hygiene.
• Follow all Quality systems and procedures to ensure our products meet food safety (HACCP), legal and customer requirements as well as maintaining external standards e.g., BRC, IFS, Femes.
• Proactively promote a positive Health & Safety culture, leading towards a target of zero harm for JDR personnel and contractors.
• Responsible for adhering to safe systems of work processes and acting in a safe manner to protect the health and safety of yourself and others at all times.
• Responsible for adhering to safe systems of work processes and acting in a safe manner to protect the health and safety of yourself and others.
• To promote a culture of positive safety behaviours within your team, demonstrate strong safety leadership and address unsafe behaviours and working practices to coach the right behaviours.
• Working closely with the Production Shift Manager(s) providing process and technical support and maintaining effective communication with all relevant parties including Production teams and Engineering Supervisor relationship.
• Ensure that maintenance and breakdowns are carried out to the highest standard of Good Manufacturing Practice and in according with good housekeeping and Health and Safety procedures.
• Provide expert technical expertise with respect to providing training, coaching, and mentoring of operators, junior engineers and apprentices.
• Respond immediately to plant downtime and inform Shift Managers of cause, and anticipated duration of downtime.
• Provide an effective and rapid solution to downtime, identify performance problems and possible areas of improvement.
• Maintain an effective planned maintenance system for the site wide function.
• Ensure the effective and efficient achievement of operational availability targets in accordance with the needs of the business.
• Ensure that all changes to plant and equipment are co-ordinated through management of change.
• Actively participate in the JDR energy reduction commitment looking for ways to reduce energy consumption.
• Ensure all relevant work is accurately recorded on the maintenance system.
• Provide technical or process support including manual process functions when requested.
• Assist in-house or contract labour on engineering projects.
• Actively maintain awareness on production performance/yield, rectifying any losses as a result of engineering problems or process machinery setting requirements.
• Effective communication with the engineering teams at shift handovers to ensure continuity of technical issues across shift so that informed decisions can be made.
• To work as a flexible and motivated member of the engineering team
• Participate in meetings whenever requested.
• Ensure that the designated working area is always kept clean and tidy maintaining a professional image.
• Ensure that the security policy is always implemented and maintained.
• Undertake any other activity deemed appropriate by the Maintenance & Reliability Manager in the pursuit of continuous improvement.

Top priorities/ Opportunities/ challenges  

• To ensure that you and other engineers are aware of and abide by the requirements of the Company’s Health & Safety Policy
• To ensure that any engineering, H&S or food safety concerns are resolved and reported to your Line Manager
• To provide adequate solutions to enable the effective discharging of your engineering responsibilities.
• To assist in an investigation into any accident or near miss involving your area of responsibility
• To identify training or competence needs for yourself and others in the team.
• To promote and actively encourage compliance with the health & safety and food safety policies.
• To ensure that you and the team have suitable and sufficient training and understanding for the tasks carried out under your responsibility.
• To communicate any positive or negative change that affects or may affect compliance with the requirements of the Health & Safety and Food Safety Policy in your area of responsibility.

Workplace Factors 

• Carrying out general engineering functions
• Site H&S
• Food Handling & Basic Food Hygiene
• Working at height
• Hot work
• Manual handling
• Lock off & isolation.
• Confined spaces
• Electricity at work
• DSEAR
• Noise

• Nationally recognised electrical qualifications (E.g., City & Guilds Level 3 diploma)
• Nationally recognised qualification in mechanical or electrical discipline (NVQ L2 / City & Guilds) (preferable)
• Broad knowledge of modern maintenance techniques.
• Wide ranging knowledge of engineering practical fundamentals.
•  5 years post qualification industry experience

You might also have/ be 

• Multi - Skilled