Role: Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer – Electrical                

Salary: upto £47,000

Location: Lacock, Wiltshire

Working Hours: 4 on/ 4 off – Days & Nights

Stonegate Farmers Ltd have an opening for a Maintenance Engineer to join our Egg Innovation Centre. Reporting into the Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for carrying out both reactive and pre planned maintenance across a variety of machinery within our cooked egg facility.

About Stonegate Farmers Ltd

Stonegate Farmers Ltd is an integrated free range and organic egg business organised across three divisions comprising farming and agriculture, egg packing and cooked egg processing. Established in 1926 and under new ownership since 2016, we have grown into one the largest free-range and organic egg producers within the UK.

Moving millions of mother nature’s most fragile food items every day takes finesse and know how. We work closely with our producers to collect, grade and package each individual egg. So many fresh eggs requires fresh thinking therefore we only employ the most enthusiastic people for our operations, who have hearts of gold – just like our eggs!

We deliver daily from hen houses right across the country to the most exclusive restaurants and to many of the UK’s leading supermarkets, together with first class egg products to some of the biggest names in food manufacturing.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Assist team to work towards maximising plant and equipment efficiency so downtime is minimised.
• Ensure planned engineering tasks are delivered on time and in full.
• Ensure good repair / manufacturing practices and procedures are followed.
• Ensure completion of planned maintenance documents.
• Work closely with production staff to achieve daily targets.
• Contribute to cost reduction initiatives to drive efficiency and process improvements
• To be actively involved in suggestions and solutions to improve efficiency of plant and equipment at the site.
• Ensure that all equipment runs efficiently through reactive and proactive maintenance. Conduct PPM’s to a satisfactory standard as instructed by the engineering manager flagging and recording any faults found.
• To respond swiftly to any breakdown request and provide assistance to the process technicians where required

Person Specification:

• Able to display our company values : Respect, Aspire, Courage, One Team, Diversity 
• Good Communication Skills (Verbal & Written)
• Proactive in approach 
• Willing To Learn
• Team Player
• Excellent attitude and work ethic

Qualifications / Experience:

• Electro-Mechanical Apprenticeship, NVQ, BTEC Level 3 or similar
• BS7671 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
• Previous experience of working within a food manufacturing / FMCG/ production environment
• Fundamental understanding of Electrical Maintenance
• PPM and Breakdown experience