Engineering Technician

About Kerry

Kerry is the world’s leading taste and nutrition partner for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Working behind the scenes, every day we partner with customers to solve the world’s most complex food challenges with our range of differentiated ingredients, technologies, and people. We are passionate about what we do and are constantly innovating to create a healthier, more enjoyable, and sustainable food future without compromise. We are driven to be our customers’ most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition and will reach over two billion consumers with sustainable nutrition solutions by 2030.

Our Safety purpose: “we work together in a caring culture where everybody goes home safe every day”. We are committed to providing a safe working environment and ensuring that all safety protocols are strictly followed. Join us in creating a workplace where safety is everyone's responsibility.

About the role

We are currently recruiting for 2 multi-skilled or electrically biased Engineering Technicians to the join the Team of 7 Engineers at our Portbury production facility in Bristol. The facility is a dry blending and mixing production facility where we create flavour blends for some of the world's best loved brands, 100's of tonnes of product are precisely measured, mixed and packaged every week.

This is a permanent position, with a 3 shift pattern from Monday to Friday:

Week 1 - PM - 14:00 - 22.00 

Week 2 - AM - 6.00 - 14.00

Week 3 - Nights - 22.00 - 6.00

Key responsibilities

• Complying with the health and safety policy and regulations. 


• Resolving breakdowns, carryout PM’s and work on project / improvement works with a view to minimizing production downtime.


• Carrying out risk assessments with the relevant people and put controls in place to minimise the risk to acceptable levels where reasonably practicable.


• Lock off any dangerous machinery immediately/ or repair and notify.


• Actively seek to undertake PMs on offline machinery where time allows.


• Fully complete PM sheets with all observations, jobs completed and recommendations and file with the Maintenance Planner, whilst always looking at ways of improving to PMs.


• Actively gain as much information as possible from production personnel regarding the fault on the machine to speed up the fault-finding process.


• Ensure engineering log and computer systems are fully filled in with all relevant information including PM numbers, all used parts, plant numbers, urgency of required parts, at the end of each shift. 


• Ensure all communications with external persons are conducted in a professional manner which reflects the company profile.

Qualifications and skills

To be successful in this role we are looking for the right behaviours and competencies as well as a proven track in a similar position.  The ideal candidate will ideally have the following

• HNC, City & Guilds or time served apprentice with appropriate electrical engineering qualifications


• Experience within a similar role ideally gained within a food manufacturing environment, if not food, experience within any manufacturing environment is highly desirable


• Electrically or biased, or multi-skilled.  PLC experience highly desirable


• Hydraulic and Pneumatic systems experience highly desirable


• Flexible approach with a positive 'can-do' attitude


• Experience of SAP highly desirable.

In Kerry we know that sometimes the perfect candidate doesn’t exist, and people can be put off applying for a role if they don’t fit all the requirements. If you are excited about working for us and have the majority of the skills or experience, then please do apply as you could be exactly what we are looking for. 

Why join Kerry?

At Kerry, we believe in giving talented, curious people the opportunity to make a difference. We work as a team, searching for the best ways to inspire food and nourish life. 
We can offer you:

• Career development opportunities within a leading global player in sustainable nutrition


• Competitive salary with shift allowance 


• Matched pension scheme up to 10%


• Life Assurance


• Employee benefit platform with discounts and offers for retailers online and offline, travelling, utilities and more.


• Employee Assistance Program, supporting your emotional, physical, nutritional and financial wellbeing.


• Access to Udemy, a learning platform with 1000's of free courses.


• OurShare, Kerry share plan available to all employees, with option to enroll once a year.


• MyCommunity, have one day per year to volunteer for a worthwhile cause.