Utilities Maintenance Engineer (ID: LoylkVHb)

This is an opportunity where you will have lots of autonomy to plan your own day, with a highly supportive and knowledgeable team around you plus lots of opportunities to continuously develop your own skillset. Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer, is seeking a Utilities Maintenance Engineer to join our highly experienced utility maintenance team.

Utilities Maintenance Engineer – Bridgwater, Somerset

Pay: £47,614

Shift Pattern: 24/7 shift pattern with an 18 day break: 2 days, 2 nights then 4 days off, for 7 blocks then an 18-day break, which incorporates your annual holiday entitlement.

About the role

Reporting to the Utilities and Operational Engineering Manager, the Utilities Engineer role is extremely varied and requires excellent decision-making skills, a “can do” attitude and the ability to make and support business critical decisions. The utilities team looks after the effluent plant, steam boilers, compressed air systems, and much more.

The daily tasks as a Utilities Maintenance Engineer at Refresco

Ensure Utility service levels are maintained to support the production requirements of the site.
Maintain department standards to the highest level
Support budget delivery through effective maintenance and spare parts management
Identify energy-saving opportunities and asset downtime reduction projects
Actively support the delivery of GPTW initiatives
Ensure Health & Safety and Statutory compliance of all assets within the Utilities Department.
Carry out continual site monitoring to manage site environmental compliance.
Carry out PPM activities and corrective actions
Maintain hygiene and GMP standards across the utilities department as well as designated area.
Manage contractor control on a daily basis
Respond to crisis management through extended cover, call-ins and remote monitoring.
As well as the daily tasks there will be some development objectives, including:

• Become first response for all Site Utilities
• Steam and condensate systems
• HP/LP Compressed Air,
• Water Treatment and distribution,
• Effluent treatment and disposal
• Chemical dosing and delivery systems,
• Cooling Tower and Legionella Control Systems
• Building Management Systems
• Canteen and Colleague welfare Facilities
• Air Handling and fixed Cooling equipment
• Roller, Rapid, Fire and Pedestrian Doors
• Fire suppression and detection Systems

Training and development for the right candidate:

• BOAS – Boiler Operation Accreditation scheme.
• Legionella training
• Manufacturer training courses

About you:

We are currently seeking an NVQ Level 3 or above-trained Maintenance Engineer to join the team to work across the department and shifts developing the necessary skills for this challenging role.

As a qualified maintenance engineer, you will have hands-on experience in carrying out basic maintenance activities and can demonstrate good foundational knowledge of Engineering practices. A positive outlook and a desire to deliver the service levels required by the site, is key to success in this position.

If you have experience working on steam boilers, compressed air, effluent plants, chemical processing equipment, wastewater treatment plants etc we would love to hear from you!

Ex-military welcome to apply - Half of this team is Ex-forces.

At Refresco we believe our ‘values’ help us achieve our personal and company goals, you will need to:

• Be accurate in your daily tasks and duties, paying great attention to detail.
• Open to learn new things as you can be involved in basic engineering and quality tasks.
• Positive and energetic, and enjoy working in a team.
• Confident enough to put forward new ideas and suggestions.
• Comfortable working to targets. We welcome applications from all, and are committed to promoting fair participation and equality of opportunity for all job applicants .

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.