WHAT WE DO.

Bakkavor Bourne specialises in making prepared fruit, leafy salads and stir fry mixes. It employs over 1,100 people and forms part of the Bakkavor Meals sector in the UK.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Manage the engineering shift team to ensure delivery of scheduled work and reactive work so that plant availability is optimised and manage technical specifications for ingredients, products, processes & packaging.
• Implement agreed training & development plans to meet engineering & production needs. Ensuring effective use of Max plan with direct reports.
• Comply with statutory & Bakkavor Health & Safety requirement, ensures reports work in a safe manner. This will include ownership of dynamic risk assessment process.
• Ensure engineering downtime is minimised, accurately logged, and monitor the repair time. Liaise with planning and operations team to allow for PPM to be completed in a timely manner.
• Ensure all stock is logged in and out of the stores area highlighting any stock issues to the engineering team manager.
• To maintain standards of hygiene and good housekeeping appropriate to a quality food manufacturer. GMP standard of workshops and engineers tool boxes is maintained at a high level.

We are looking to recruit an Engineering Shift Manager to manage a team of 6 engineers to ensure adherence to scheduled workload and that all reactive breakdowns are managed thus minimising plant downtime. You will be methodical in approach, highly organised with excellent prioritisation skills and the ability to work to short and tight deadlines.