Role overview

Hours: Shift pattern typically 5 on 5 off (3 days – 2 nights) across 7 days / can be 4 on 4 off.

Salary: £Competitive

Benefits: offer fantastic company benefits, an environment that you will enjoy to work in and genuine development and progression opportunities.

Who Are We?

At Burton’s Biscuits Company we are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!

Our Vision is to have a shared Pride and Passion for baking sensational biscuits & snacks that delight our consumers, shoppers and our customers. We’re the only major biscuit manufacturer in the UK to focus solely on biscuits, making us one of the key players in the market. We employ circa 1,800 people around the UK, with the majority of our workforce being based at our three main Bakery facilities in Llantarnam, Edinburgh and Blackpool. Our head office is based in St. Albans, with a subsidiary office is located in Blackpool & smaller but equally important Bakery based in Dorset.

We had an amazing 2018, which has included seeing Wagon Wheels featured on the Great British Bake Off and our Llantarnam site featuring on ITV4, as part of their documentary 'Made in Britain'. Along with having amazing brands, we have secured a long term agreement to allow us to manufacturing a number of Mars Biscuit branded products & Cathedral City savoury snacks, we are also forming key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector.

In order to ensure we can continue to make fantastic biscuits, and to help us on this amazing journey, we are proud to announce that in early 2019 we completed the acquisition of a premium sweet and savoury biscuit manufacturer Thomas Fudge’s. This will only increase our baking capabilities across a number of brand new sweet & savoury categories.

As the new home of Thomas Fudge’s premium biscuit brand, Burton’s Biscuit envisage Thomas Fudge’s as forming a key branded range across our existing product portfolio.

What we are all about here?

Our forward-thinking strategy historically led to some impressive results with Burton’s Biscuit Company transforming its portfolio shape and profitability since 2009. We hope to accelerate our portfolio transformation and growth further by expanding into adjacent categories, new geographic territories and through synergistic bolt-on mergers and acquisitions.

Why work as part of our team?

We are looking for a time served shift maintenance engineer. Using your maintenance / engineering skills, knowledge and experience you will carry out planned maintenance programmes and timely reactive maintenance for breakdowns and faults.

What does your typical day look like?

- Assist in the control, monitor and review the maintenance, calibration, external service, repair of all production plant equipment within the maintenance schedules and EWR system.

- Assist in ensuring that all maintenance and contract work is carried out with due regard to food safety and best practise.

- Assist in the training and development other engineering personnel.

- Assist the Engineering Shift and Planning Managers in monitoring and reviewing planned maintenance schedules.

- To be aware of engineering issues on a daily basis and proactivity seek and recommend improvement opportunities.

- Provide technical knowledge and experience to resolve technical problems.

- Assist in the management of contractor and resources whilst ensuring that quality and standards are maintained.

- Communicate and action engineering issues on daily basis accurately along with providing root causes, helping organise & implement any appropriate follow up activities.

What are the key ingredients needed for the role?

- Experience of working in food manufacturing or similar environment.

- Wrapping machine experience.

- Qualified with HNC or equivalent certificate.

- Experience with PLC (preferably Rockwell), use for diagnosing faults and small program modifications.

- Experience with servo motion control.

- Have a flexible approach to working times.

- Excellent planning and prioritising skills.

Final part of the mix. 

We offer fantastic company benefits, an environment that you will enjoy to work in and genuine development and progression opportunities.

Does this sound like the role for you? Apply by clicking the link.

You may have experience of the following: Multi-Skilled Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, Maintenance Technician, Engineer, Shift Engineer, Multi-Skilled Shift Engineer, Mechanical Apprentice, Preventative Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, Production Engineer, Food Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Mechanical, etc.