Job title: Shift Engineer (Mechanical Bias)
Location: Corby
About Jacksons:
Jacksons is part of William Jackson Food Group, a sixth-generation family business founded by William Jackson when he opened his first shop in Hull in September 1851. Today we have a portfolio of four food businesses in distinct, yet complimentary market areas, employing over 2,000 people.
We have occupied the current site in Hull since 1907 and we now have 3 bread plants in our main bakery. We recently developed a second bakery, also at our site in Hull, which specialises in premium quality roll production. We specialise in the supply of bread and other carriers to the sandwich manufacturers, foodservice and export channels, and in 2012 we launched our consumer facing brand “Jackson’s of Yorkshire”.
We opened a brand-new site in Corby, Northamptonshire – one of the largest investments our Group has ever made – and this will allow us to realise our ambition of being the best at what we do. 2025 is an exciting time to join us – make this year a toast to you and apply now!
Job Summary:
- To comply with Safety, Health and Environmental requirements within the business in line with the Health & Safety Policy and Procedures, e.g. Work Instructions, Risk Assessments and Safe Systems.
- To ensure a high standard of engineering maintenance support to production and all other functions within the business, thus ensuring a high performance of all equipment and systems.
- To develop safe behavior and ensure a clean as you go policy is adhered to.
- To ensure food safety is always a priority in all works carried out and any potential food safety issue is addressed immediately.
- To use a Continuous Improvement process to develop and improve all aspects within your control.
- To adhere to all Jacksons Bakery processes and procedures.
- To maintain accurate and timely records of all work carried out. This will include correct and detailed information on handover between shifts.
- To demonstrate Jacksons Bakery values and beliefs through your standard of work, communication and behaviours.
- To be a pro-active member of the team, working as part of that team, maintaining Company standards and influencing policy.
- To set and achieve high personal standards of competence.
- Share knowledge and expertise with other Shift Engineers.
- Qualified in relevant engineering discipline and multi-skilled to appropriate level.
- To be capable of solving problems wherever practically possible.
- To use knowledge to design out problems and improve engineering systems and procedures.
- Attend training as required to meet mandatory business requirements.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- In line with the Company’s goals and strategy
- Provide efficient reactive response to all plant incident and breakdowns
- Perform planned preventative maintenance duties on assets and services to increase uptime, maintainability and performance.
- To help deliver operational performance Improvements identified though key measures by delivering continuous improvement.
You will:
- To ensure work records are filled in promptly and accurately and outstanding issues highlighted.
- To be able to demonstrate effective use of time through the CMMS.
- To use maintenance records to identify failure patterns and flag issues / solutions.
- To actively be involved in improving CMMS data collection methods and standards.
- To understand the value of plant history information. Support and contribute to Departmental systems improvements.
Qualifications and Experience:
The ideal candidate will have the following;
- Engineering apprenticeship (C&G / EAL NVQ Level 3 / 4 or OAL FDEM Diploma)
- Current Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (C&G Level 3, achieve within 12 months).
- Application of Safety, Health and Environmental legislation and procedures
- Planning works and writing reports.
- Verify assets meet performance criteria after work.
- Reading and adhering to site SOPs.
- CMMS experience (achieve within 12 months).
- Electrical bias
- Experience in the following would be advantageous - Mechanical principles, F&D assets, welding, machining, turning, hydraulic, pneumatic & thermodynamics systems and / or, electrical principals, motors, motor control circuits, motion control, encoders, PLCs, sensors
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Profit sharing
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
Thanks for reading our job advert. We do our very best to bring to life what it's like working as part of our team. Diverse teams really are the best teams. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. All colleagues are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying - a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.
We also know that sometimes some candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they think they can tick every box. If you are really excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren't sure if you are 100% there yet... go on... why not give it a whirl? Good luck!
