Method Engineer

We are looking for a talented and experienced Maintenance Methods Engineer to join our Purina team in Sudbury. As Maintenance Methods Engineer, you'll be at the heart of the Sudbury factory operations, ensuring all our machines and equipment perform at the levels expected of a world class company, whilst ensuring the safety of all those who use them. At Purina PetCare, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too At Nestlé PURINA Pet Care, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too. As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestlé PURINA has been helping pet's live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK's best loved brands including BAKERS®, GO-CAT®, WINALOT®, FELIX®, and BONIO, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners. A day in the life of a Maintenance Methods Engineer You will be part of the maintenance methods team, supporting and participating in the implementation and execution of the factory asset maintenance programme aimed to eliminate unplanned stops and optimise maintenance cost and as a result increase asset intensity. Other key activities will include:

• Actively participate in maintenance routines to ensure that maintenance activities are scheduled and executed in time with high quality.
• Support and participate in the implementation maintenance methodologies to drive improvements. (PM pillar, foundations),
• Coach breakdown analysis process on priority basis agreed with method strategy.
• Coach and promote the quality and effectiveness of breakdown analysis.
• Provide input for annual maintenance budget for assets under your control.
• Assist with the reporting and tracking of the maintenance budget
• Be the link between production to engineering, by being an active member of local committee by execution projects.
• Build engineering capability in terms of competencies
What will make you successful You'll need to be passionate about helping to drive our journey towards becoming a LEAN enterprise. This is a hugely exciting, world-wide change to the way Nestlé operates. It's not in just any job that you get to play a key part in helping a world-leading company undertake the biggest change in its history!, We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!


• Experience within the technical maintenance field in a corresponding industry, ideally food production or other FMCG categories.
• A track record of delivering results with cross-functional teams.
• A Time served either apprentice or hold a undergraduate degree in a technical or scientific discipline or equivalent.
• Experience and knowledge of engineering design.
• Experience in engineering reliability management and exposure to reliability centred maintenance i.e. CBM tools, predictive maintenance processes
• Good organisation and financial management skills.
• SAP knowledge and TPM methodology - additional advantages.
• Experience working in multifunctional team (i.e. capital projects, DMAIC) preferred.
• Committed to ensure an attitude of absolute intolerance for unsafe situations, in relation to product quality, people or environment safety
  
  What can we offer in return? Great benefits you'd expect from a business the size of Nestlé - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.