Shift Engineer

Overview

Kinnerton is no ordinary brand. We were the first brand to offer character chocolate in the UK, back in 1978 under the brand Kinnerton Kids. Since then we have gone from strength to strength, placing us as one of the UK’s leading manufacturer of seasonal goods, producing millions of delicious advent calendars and Easter eggs every year! We have two UK manufacturing sites in Fakenham (Norfolk) and Sherburn-in-Elmet (North Yorkshire), a London Hub space and offices in Hong Kong!

We are also part of the Zertus UK & Ireland Snacking & Chocolate Market Unit partnered with other food manufacturers across the country. We have a unique offering to our customers with our nut safe promise and our commitment to product innovation. We’re also the masterminds behind NOMO chocolate, a delicious free-from and award-winning chocolate range.

We are seeking an experienced Multi Skilled Asset Care Shift Engineer to join our Sherburn-in-Elmet site, working within our strong Engineering team. 

Responsibilities

As an Engineer at Kinnerton, your job will involve working within the factory, tending to machine breakdowns and ensuring corrective actions are put into place, as well as completing planned maintenance, driving the improvement and quality of our machinery. On a daily basis you will work within a team of two Asset Care Engineers on your shift, taking direction and working through daily tasks and priorities from the Asset Care Lead Engineer.

We’re seeking an Engineer with both mechanical and electrical skills, who can can promote high standards of work. Ideally, the successful candidate will be knowledgeable of Food Safety standards, Health & Safety standards and possess strong IT/Computer skills, as well as experience of working with a wide variety of varying machinery and equipment such as:

High Speed baggers; High speed Multi head weighers; Sonic weld netting machine; Pallet wrappers; Cooling tunnels; Modular belt conveyors; Vibratory feed hoppers; Belt check weigh systems; Chocolate drop depositors; Dragee coating/polishing pans; Chocolate drop rollers; Mixer tanks; Chocolate gear pumps; Chocolate Lobe pumps

We are eager to speak to Engineers who have worked with a food manufacturing or FMCG environment.

However, if you're slightly earlier in your engineering career, but are interested in working at Kinnerton, we would still like to hear from you. 

• Ensure that the reactive work that is completed is done to a standard that maintains Quality and does not increase risk to contamination.
• Undertake works orders and take direction from the Asset Care Lead Engineer.
• Ensure that all PPM’s are completed and any risks to this completion escalated to the Asset Care Lead Engineer.
• Work with the Asset Care Lead Engineer in optimising and critiquing the CMMS system and to drop out none value adding tasks.
• Ensure all company H&S policies are implemented and maintained.
• Audit the contractor control policy, ensuring full adherence to site policies and procedures.
• Ensure all relevant data is submitted into the CMMS system.

You will work a total of 41 hours per week, following the below shift pattern:

• Week 1: 18:00 – 06:00 Sunday to Tuesday, 06:00 – 14:00 Saturday
• Week 2: 06:00 – 18:00 Monday to Tuesday, 18:00 – 06:00 Wednesday to Thursday
• Week3: 06:00 – 18:00 Wednesday to Thursday, 06:00 – 15:00 Friday

Qualifications

Essential

• Multi-skilled engineering apprenticeship
• CMMS experience
• Logical thought process with good communication skills at all levels
• Proactive approach
• Ability to work well within fast-moving production environment where flexibility is key
• A strong work ethic with a can-do attitude and the ability to work as part of team as well as on their own initiative
• FMCG experience (Updated training will be provided on Food Safety etc) 

Desirable

• HNC / HND Qualification
• HACCP (training can be provided) 
• Health & Safety IOSH/NEBOSH 
• Metal Detection training (training can be provided)  
• PLC programming skills
• Flow wrapper experience
• Bag former experience

Rewards Benefits

• Company Pension scheme and life assurance scheme at x4 basic
• Company paid Health Care Cash Plan via Paycare plus access to Paycare Perks for high street and retailer discounts
• 20 days annual leave (pro-rata as shift work)
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Charity fundraising and team events
• One additional day paid leave for charity/community work
• Discounts via our staff shops
• Employee values wards
• Referral bonus vouchers
• Training and development opportunities
• Bespoke training for new factory workers
• Free parking at all manufacturing sites/ offices or access to company paid parking permit local to the Fakenham site
• Excellent facilities, canteen etc
• Ongoing commitment to our ESG strategy – protecting out people, communities and our planet
• Access to Grocery Aid charity support