Shift Engineer

  • Deeside Flintshire
  • Operations
  • Full time
  • Open-ended contract

Pull up a chair.

We always have a place at the table for new talent, so won’t you join us? Our name, What’s Cooking?, is followed by a question mark because we are always curious and open to new ideas. So yes, we are also curious to learn more about you.

Are you just as open-minded and enterprising as we are? In that case, we look forward to getting to know you/meeting you.

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What will you do as Shift Engineer?

  • Undertake routine maintenance of electrical and mechanical machinery and equipment in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule.

  • Carry out fault finding to detect and repair electrical and mechanical faults on machinery and equipment.

  • Timely reaction to plant breakdowns and speed of response in rectifying breakdown problems.

  • Supervise external contractors and colleagues as required.

  • Advise other maintenance personnel on any technical issues beyond their scope.

  • Ensure all work is carried out in accordance with company safety rules and health and safety legislation.


Who are you?

  • Be experienced working within a food and drink FMCG environment.

  • Be a time served electrical/mechanical apprentice (Level 3).

  • Understand & have experience of fault-finding PLC’s and computer-controlled equipment.

  • Be competent in electrical/electronic/mechanical fault finding and analysis skills.

  • Be happy to work on your own, managing your workload, but equally happy to work as part of a team.

  • Have a flexible attitude to work to ensure all requirements are met.

  • Be an excellent communicator, across all disciplines from shop floor to senior management

  • Maintain plant machinery at optimum levels with a minimum of downtime.

  • Set-up machines/ resolve problems in production in these areas.

  • Adjust machinery / suggest ideas of modifications.

  • Be able to support Manufacturing and other functions in all aspects of production


What do we offer?

  • 4 On, 4 Off, 2 Days, 2 Nights

  • 7am-7pm/7pm-7am

  • Overtime x1.5 Pay

  • Health & Benefits Scheme

  • Pension Scheme

  • Free Parking

  • Free Company Products


Who's What’s Cooking Group?

We are a colourful family of food lovers who are eager to satisfy the appetite for conscious, daily meals. Being an innovative food group, we help people serve simple and tasty meals, like lasagne, pasta, pizza, world cuisine, plant-based and regional dishes. You may already know us from Come a casa®, but we also provide food services to professionals, including hotels or restaurants.

For the past 75 years, we have looked at ways of making sustainable consumption a natural daily choice by serving simple and tasty food, prepared with attention to people and planet. We do this with our workforce of 1,650 colleagues, in our Belgian head office, our six industrial plants in Belgium, France, Poland and the UK, and our 5 sales offices.

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Emily Davidson

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