UK Field Service Maintenance Engineer

Field Service Maintenance Engineer - UK Travel

Up to £56,000
Company Car
Up to 10% Bonus
Private Healthcare
Pension Scheme

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

Bakkavor's Group Services functions are based in Spalding, Lincolnshire with a small number of people working at the Group's Head Office in London. There are around 740 working across functions such as IT, Procurement, Finance, HR, Technical, Marketing and Administration.

A fantastic opportunity for a Field Service Maintenance Engineer has become available to join the Bakkavor Group covering all sites across the UK. The business uses highly automated assets and technology to produce a wide range of products for all major retailers. The business’s across the Bakkavor estate range in size and complexity. You will be required to work on all of Group UK’s sites that have key assets, ensuring all assets are maintained to optimise production levels. You will conduct planned and predictive maintenance to prevent issues occurring and reactive maintenance dependent on business criticality.

In this highly autonomous role, you will manage your own diary against the business needs, be self-sufficient and highly organised. This role will require mobility to travel the UK and will require overnight stays as and when needed.

Accountabilities:

• Conduct planned maintenance of food and drink processing and packaging assets.
• Conduct predictive maintenance of food and drink processing and packaging assets.
• Respond and support business critical breakdowns of food and drink processing and packaging assets. Review reactive maintenance or corrective actions to resolve deviation.
• Identify faults (electrical, mechanical, software, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatics) on food and drink processing and packaging assets, action as required.
• Repair and/or replace component parts for food and drink processing and packaging assets.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects to optimise food and drink assets or processes.
• Contribute to technical performance reviews in collaboration with other functions and stakeholders.
• Support maintenance and operational team members in developing engineering technical competence.
• Maintain engineering documentation and contribute to internal and external audits.

This is a great opportunity within a market leader, please hit the apply now button to register your interest.

Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with a growing international presence in the US and China. We are number one in the UK in the four product categories of meals, salads, desserts and pizza & bread, providing high-quality, fresh, healthy and convenient food. Our customers include every major UK grocery retailer, including Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and Waitrose, and some of the world’s best-known food brands. We have over 19,000 employees, our headquarters are in London and we have 23 factories in the UK, 5 in the US and 9 in China.