Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Puffin Produce has an exciting new venture - Pembrokeshire Creamery Ltd. We are investing £12.5 million in constructing a liquid milk bottling centre in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, West Wales which will be operational in December 2023. The centre is a 3,000 square meter facility that has the capacity to bottle a million litres of milk per week and will supply major supermarkets across the whole of Wales with Welsh milk which is also bottled in Wales. It will be the only BRC Standard facility to offer Welsh Milk which is also bottled in Wales This will reduce food miles, increase supply chain efficiency, and support local farming and communities.

The Role

As a 'Multi-skilled Engineer’, you will have experience working in a similar operation, with a proven track record of delivering results. You'll be able to work in a fast-paced environment and be adaptable to change, whilst being passionate about doing the right thing for our customer's by driving quality and adhering to process. The role is to encompass the start-up, commissioning, and on-going support for our new facility at Haverfordwest. You’ll be working to support the site in achieving some key milestones in this exciting opportunity.

This is a hands-on role where you will be working autonomously when required, but also as part of the wider team, with broad responsibilities to help identify and drive fault finding activities towards resolving and preventing issues.

You'll be naturally friendly and want to get stuck in, working with the team to deliver great results. You'll have an enthusiastic approach and be a strong coach, mentor, motivator, and role model to the colleagues around you, driving performance and working cross-functionally, communicating effectively across all levels. You will have natural ability to make sound logical decisions supporting the needs of the customer and manufacturing operations.

You'll Be Responsible For

Carrying out preventive maintenance on a variety of dairy processing and filling equipment to ensure overall equipment efficiency.

• Delivering to a range of reactive and predictive preventative and maintenance schedules.
• Working with a range of machinery and instrumentation with pumps, motors, valves, agitators, etc. to ensure availability and a reduction of unplanned downtime.
• Working with other engineering and specialist teams to plan work.
• Booking in work into the maintenance system.
• Undergoing supported training and development opportunities to progress, whilst looking to support other areas and gain broader experience.
• Prioritising workload, ensuring production awareness of timescales.
• Diagnose faults, test, repair and maintain Mechanical / Electrical components.
• To observe, recognise and report on machinery / component defects, identifying symptoms of impending failures.
• Contact OEM's and other suppliers for technical support as and when required.
• Identify improvements and implement using continuous improvement strategies.
• Identify life cycle issues and raise these with possible recommendations.

What you’ll bring to the role

· Ambition & drive with a positive with a 'can do’ attitude.

· Strong experience as a multiskilled engineer. Dairy/process background an advantage but not essential.

· HNC in either mechanical or electrical discipline or a recognised engineering apprenticeship.

· Experience of working in an FMCG environment with a strong knowledge / understanding of pumps, valves, variable speed drives, sensors, PLC’s (Allen Bradley/ Siemens), Site Services (steam generation, compressors etc), CIP systems (chemical cleaning plant)

· Computer literate, with strong report writing skills - CMMS, SCADA, HMI’S, Microsoft Office.