As an engineering multiskilled technician, you will carry out diagnostics, repair, or replace malfunctioning electrical, pneumatic, mechanical, hydraulic components of equipment and carry out planned preventative maintenance in accordance with the preventative maintenance plan, thus ensuring the plant is maintained to the highest standard. Be proactive by routinely inspecting equipment, cabling panels, to ensure they are up to standard.
Duties and Responsibilities
Unit Performance
* Carry out diagnostics, repair, or replace malfunctioning electrical, pneumatic, mechanical, hydraulic components of equipment
* Organise safe maintenance principles for regulating and scheduling breakdowns.
* Carry out planned preventative maintenance in accordance with the preventative maintenance plan, thus ensuring the plant is maintained to the highest standard.
* Assisting with equipment upgrades from external contractors and Management to ensure all new equipment is commissioned to the agreed time frame.
* Be proactive by routinely inspecting equipment, cabling panels, to ensure they are up to standard.
* Perform effective troubleshooting and corrective actions to identify hazards or malfunctions and repair or substitute damaged units.
* Ability to prioritize reactive tasks in order of urgency and impact to business.
* Proactive in familiarizing themselves with new machinery/equipment.
* Completion and adherence to current and future engineering systems.
* Problem-solving, root cause analyses ensuring a solution for all required tasks in a timely manner.
* Provide assistance and manage contractors’ roles for electrical/mechanical duties.
* Ensure that electrical/mechanical activity in the production areas conforms to GMP standards and promotes a safe and healthy work environment through the continuous improvement of safety standards.
* Flexible working hours to cover the engineering, production, and project requirements.
* Support the Process engineer and your team in driving Lean/Optimization initiatives using lean tools and implement initiatives across your area equipment and process in order to maximize reliability, utilizing Problem-Solving tools including the 5 whys as a means to addressing the root cause of equipment problems.
* Ensure that equipment productivity (as measured by efficiency) is maximized through the continuous monitoring and trending of improvements and equipment availability (downtime reduction & increased uptime).
* Ensure that all activity in the unit areas conforms to GMP standards and promotes a safe and healthy work environment through the continuous improvement of safety standards.
* Day-to-day workloads to be controlled and managed through CMMS.
Unit Quality
* Implement company GMP policies to maintain standards
* Facilitate inspections and action inspection reports
* Ensure quality of the product is maintained above required levels
* Achieve agreed internal and external customer satisfaction targets
* Ensure that engineering activity in the production unit conforms to quality standards and promotes excellent product and process quality through the application of TPM principles
Unit Cost
* Track all costs in terms of labor and materials used by recording accurate information on Pirana.
* Be aware of maintenance budget and controls to keep within budget.
* Suggest ideas and initiatives to improve your process or asset's performance.
Unit Compliance
* Surpass minimum quality standards and measures in your areas.
* Assist the team to achieve health and safety targets
* Comply with relevant HR policies and procedures
* Comply with company reporting needs
* Proactively identify and correct any risks identified in your areas.
Unit People
* Behave in a manner that supports and demonstrates Company values, Challenge, Sense of Urgency & Openness
* Comply with all measures contained in the company policies & procedures and employee handbook.
* Manage accidents following company policies
* Work with the process engineer & team to change business culture as per agreed company-wide initiatives
Requirements
Experience
o Over 5 years’ experience in FMCG Industry.
o Experience in the Food Operations sector.
o Experience in a poultry process industry (desirable).
o Excellent communication and interpersonal Skills.
o Ability to apply lean principles in practical application.
Educational Qualifications
o Qualified with an Electrical/Mechanical Trade Qualification
o Computer Literate Microsoft Word & Excel
Skills and Competencies
o Promotes confidence and a positive attitude through honesty and professionalism in all interactions.
o Builds and maintains relationships with others at all levels to develop mutually beneficial outcomes. Uses diplomacy, tact, and interpersonal skills to support others in reaching consensus.
o Effectively conveys information and expresses thoughts and facts in a manner that will constructively persuade, convince, and influence others.
o Demonstrates effective use of listening and questioning skills while displaying openness to other people's ideas and thoughts.
o Effectively, fairly, and transparently manages resources in line with company goals, policies, and procedures.
o The ability to make informed, effective, and timely decisions.
o Develops and fosters a culture of continuous improvement.
o Communicates ideas and information in an engaging manner. Works cooperatively with others and builds relationships within and outside of the organization.
Skills
o Expertise and track record in FMCG, food production.
o Possesses a strong understanding and application of asset management principles, concepts, practices in maintaining our plants Assets.
o Able to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
o Strong skills as a negotiator to reach consensus, alignment, and commitment
o Sound organization and time management skills
Key Performance Indicators
o Technical / Engineering Downtime Targets to be achieved.
o Recording of downtime on all assets using the CMMS system.
o All work activities recorded through the CMMS system.
o Operate safe maintenance principles Achieve AIR Targets
o Training plan to be adhered to – achieve target as per training plan objectives
o Meet or exceed preventive maintenance targets for your assets
o All compliances associated with Quality, GMP, H&S, Employee wellbeing, food safety, and environmental are adhered to and targets set by your direct manager are achieved or exceeded.
Manor Farm are an equal opportunities employer
Manor Farm became part of Scandi Standard 2017. Scandi Standard loves the good, healthy, and climate-friendly chicken. We are the leading producer of chicken-based food products in the Nordic countries and in Ireland. The company produces, markets, and sells processed, chilled, and frozen products under the well-known brands Kronfågel, Danpo, Den Stolte Hane, Naapurin Maalaiskana, and Manor Farm. In Norway, eggs are also produced and sold. Together we have approximately 3,000 employees and with an annual sale of more than 7.5 billion kronor. For more information, see www.scandistandard.com.
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