Pool Engineer

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Pool Engineer

Bakkavor Meals London - Park Royal -Abbeydale site

Sunday -Thursday Days- 6.00-14.30/14.00-22.30 ( Plus 5 weeks per year on nights with a nightshift allowance)

Salary -Up to £52,940 based on experience

Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Why join us?

We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

What we do.

This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people.

About the role.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join our expanding team and site.

The Maintenance Engineer will conduct planned and predictive maintenance to prevent issues occurring. Your role will lead or support the operational teams with machinery change overs and set ups. Working with other teams, you will contribute to technical performance reviews and continuous improvement activities. Our Maintenance Engineers work as part of a team or standalone, depending on the task. The role reports to the Engineering Teams Manager

About you.
Conduct planned maintenance of processing and packaging assets.
Conduct predictive maintenance of food processing and packaging assets (condition-based monitoring).
Respond to breakdowns.
Conduct reactive maintenance or corrective actions to resolve deviation.
Identify faults (electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatics) and action as required.
Lead or support operational teams with machinery change overs and set ups.
Manufacture and repair component parts for processing and packaging assets.
Contribute to continuous improvement projects to optimise assets or processes.

Qualifications/Skills/ Experience Engineering apprenticeship (C&G / EAL NVQ Level 3 / 4 or OAL FDEM Diploma)
Current Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (C&G Level 3, achieve within 12 months).
Application of Safety, Health and Environmental legislation and procedures
Planning works and writing reports.
Verify assets meet performance criteria after work.
Reading and adhering to site SOPs.
CMMS experience (achieve within 12 months).
Electrical bias
Experience in the following would be advantageous - Mechanical principles, F&D assets, welding, machining, turning, hydraulic, pneumatic & thermodynamics systems and / or, electrical principals, motors, motor control circuits, motion control, encoders, PLCs, sensors.

What you'll receive.
Life Assurance (1 x salary)
25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service)
Staff Shop
Stakeholder Pension Scheme
Discount & cashback platform
Personal Accident Insurance
Free health check
Employee Assistance Programme
A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
Free independent mortgage advice
Discounted tutoring for children
Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
Free car parking - Site dependant

Proud to be Bakkavor.

We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

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Bakkavor
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,000 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 3,000 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.

Category: Engineering

Location:
London, GB, HA0 1TW

Date: 11 May 2025

Req ID: 22496
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