Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

Our Supply Chain teams play a vital role in getting our goods to consumers; from sourcing raw materials to manufacturing and delivering the end product. You could be finding a new way to get 12,000 litres of ice cream across the desert without it melting; or designing a more efficient distribution network to enable us to store and deliver our products sustainably to our customers. Our Global Supply Chain includes approximately 100,000 employees who work with over 70,000 suppliers and 1.5 million farmers. We manage a logistics network that transports across a distance of over 1.5 billion km a year. In the UK & Ireland, we are home to the production of PG Tips, Magnum, Pot Noodle, Persil and many more. Looking forward, we want to embrace the digital revolution in order to build a more agile, integrated and synchronized Supply Chain. Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world and see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do. There’s always a new challenge to tackle and our people have the opportunity to make a big impact every day on a local level, across Europe and the world.

The role is based in Gloucester, a fast paced environment where no two days are the same, home to the production of the country’s beloved ice-creams such as Magnum and Wall’s

JOB PURPOSE

To ensure the production facility is operating at optimum speed and efficiency producing excellent quality product by maintaining, repairing, improving plant and equipment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Safety

• Ensure Company safety policy, rules and procedures are understood and followed on all tasks and improvements
• To ensure H&S compliance relating to maintenance tasks
• Ensure statutory maintenance activities are planned and managed effectively.
• Perform risk assessment as appropriate
• Take part in regular inspections/audits for good housekeeping/6S and machine safety and ensure agreed action are completed

Quality

• Ensure all work carried out is compliant with FFSC standards for food manufacturing

Technical

• Diagnose and carry out mechanical repairs, modifications, machine upgrades and installation.
• Focused on delivering performance targets.  Directly contributes to improved safety, quality, waste and cost.
• Undertake PM tasks utilising skills and experience to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Carry out problem solving and diagnostic checks on mechanical and process equipment recommending changes and improvements.
• Electrical Skills and Diagnostic Technician; Remove and replace major electrical components (such as motors, switch/control gear) and troubleshoot electrical circuits safely.  Able to isolate machinery and re-install electrical supplies for machinery components.
• Instrumentation and Control Skills: Demonstrate understanding of Programme Logic Control (PLC) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
• Manage PLCs and Data Acquisition Networks (eg Programme modifications, Force Devices and fault finding).
• Improve reliability of machines with engineering solutions
• Improve performance of machines by development of maintenance tasks
• Fault finding and being able to quickly get to root cause of the problem
• Eliminate repeated faults.

Lead small improvement projects

• Suggest and develop improvements using the Kaizen process
• Document solutions achieved.

Communications

• Communicate problems, solutions, and options clearly
• Inform all relevant people

• Draw information from internal and external sources.

Document all repairs and changes to equipment in line with company procedures
Keen to coach, develop and motivate others

• Identify regular maintenance tasks that can generally be done by others

Open to self-development

• Actively monitor and develop own skills and competencies in line with requirements

ALL ABOUT YOU

• 4 years minimum practical experience in electrical/mechanical/control engineering
• Good communication skills
• NVQ 3 or equivalent in engineering
• Basic level of computer literacy
• Ability to analyse and interpret information and data from different sources and media
• Ability to fault find on electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic machinery
• Experience in a frontline maintenance role in a 24/7 FMCG facility

Desirable

• Training in learn manufacturing tools and techniques
• Programme Logic Control qualifications (Siemens S5/Siemens S7/Alan Bradley).

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.