Production Support Engineer

About this role

About Us
Growing is in our nature. Over 50 years ago, we started life as a small family farm with a handful of people and a modest range of crops.  Today, we’re a global farming and food business working thousands of acres and employing thousands of people around the world to grow, process, pack and market a range of fresh produce.
Supplying our premium produce to some of the UK’s leading retailers and restaurants, we are very proud of what we do and how we do it. With our impressive green credentials, we truly are committed to sustainability, demonstrating continued investment in the latest technologies to help maintain our carbon neutral footprint.

The Role
A fantastic opportunity for an experienced, Production Support Engineer to join our busy, production and site engineering department. To enable us to continue meeting high industry demands and in order to maintain and exceed the highest levels of quality and customer service expected, we are keen to hear from suitably skilled and experienced engineering professionals who may be interested in joining our team.
The engineering team at Barfoots are pivotal to our success. Working closely with production to ensure minimum downtime and ensuring that the production plant, services and facilities are all maintained and improved by way of pre-planned and reactive maintenance. With either a mechanical or electrical bias, candidates will have proven experience working in a similar environment, attending to machinery breakdowns, fault diagnosis and establishing route cause analysis in a busy, dynamic processing or FMCG environment. With strong communication and team working skills, candidates will work collaboratively within the engineering team, providing support and investigating means of improving plant productivity and efficiency. Also working to identify and participate in, continuous improvement projects to help increase plant efficiency, energy and costs

This is a day shift based role. 4 days on 4 days off 6am – 6pm
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
General mechanical/electrical engineering and routine maintenance tasks
Attend to and rectify factory machinery breakdowns, utilising best practice for both health & safety and hygiene
Fault diagnosis and route cause analysis
Ensure maximum equipment uptime and availability
Follow and improve upon, month on month PPM schedules
Be involved in both electrical and mechanical reactive and pro-active maintenance
Maintain accurate records for all activity and spares used/requested
Ensure equipment is maintained to a high standard

Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Time served apprenticeship or equivalent in either Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
Qualified to degree level or equivalent qualification
Capable of quickly identifying and efficiently resolving mechanical and/or electrical faults
Effective communication skills
Ability to prioritise workload and use own initiative
Troubleshooting electrical control panels - an advantage

Desirable Skills/Experience:
Capable of working on invertors, PLC system
Carry out effective RCAs
Develop effective PPMs
Experience of working within a FMCG / Fresh food manufacturing
Benefits
Why Work for Barfoots?
Investors In People Silver Award status.
Company pension scheme
24/7 Online GP access
Life Assurance
Employee Assistance Program
Benefits Platform
Development opportunities
Discounted leisure membership
Discounted vegetable box scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Free onsite parking
Approved training centre for Highfield qualifications
Rapidly growing company
Committed to Sustainability