Role: Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer – Electrical                

Salary: up to £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. As one of our Maintenance Engineers, you will be responsible for maintaining and optimising electrical, automation and industrial systems across our production and wider site facilities. You will underpin the production operations within our cooked egg facility; conducting both planned and reactive maintenance whilst championing health, safety & quality.

As a Maintenance Engineer at Stonegate, you will also be offered support/funding for training and courses, in line with business requirements.

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:

• Respond promptly to breakdowns and give feedback to production regarding expected downtime and planned corrective actions
• Conduct planned preventative maintenance and other equipment servicing
• Troubleshoot PLC fault codes and identify external faults through software
• Completing all necessary documentation ensuring that it is kept accurate and is audit ready
• Work closely with engineering and production teams to develop a positive attitude that is understanding of the challenges of a busy 24/7 production facility
• Complying with food safety standards and controls to ensure all work is carried out correctly and safely
• Undergo training, building a comprehensive knowledge of our specialist equipment
• 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.

Person Specification:

• Able to display our company values: Respect, Aspire, Courage, One Team, Diversity
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Skilled at efficiently interfacing with stakeholders of various levels
• Attention to detail
• Proactive in approach
• Computer literate in MS office package

Qualifications / Experience:

• City & Guilds / NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• Excellent working knowledge of manufacturing engineering equipment, particularly process and production lines
• Strong understanding of PLC control systems – Omron, Allen Bradley, Siemens & Mitsubishi
• Experience with and ability to use a CMMS system.
• Knowledge of pasteurisers and steam boilers (desirable)