KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

To ensure that the Berry Gardens Linton site is maintained to a high standard. Maintain all machinery and equipment to ensure high performance levels and ensure compliance with health and safety requirements. Design and implement schedules for preventative maintenance to reduce downtime and effects on products. To ensure all regular checks are kept up to date and all relevant paper work is kept updated and stored correctly. To ensure the work shop is kept to the correct standard , and the storing of all chemicals – liquids are stored correctly.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

•Assess site on a regular basis and implement any remedial works required.
•Ensure site is compliant with health and safety and fire requirements.
•Make daily checks on all pack house machinery to prevent down-time to support productivity.
•Carry out regular scheduled maintenance according to programme.
•Liaise with external suppliers where necessary to obtain engineering assistance or call out requests.
•Maintain sufficient levels of spare parts and materials to aid repairs.
•Provide point of contact and assistance to contractors working on site.
•Where appropriate, Train mentor and cascade key skills to Line staff in order to ensure machinery is kept to optimum standards for H+S and line performance
•Identify areas of training for machine operators to reduce down time and machine malfunctions.
•To ensure regular meetings are held with the team and document this.
•Keep up to date with changing technologies to ensure that new machine concepts are evaluated and considered.
•Constantly monitor expenditure on parts and equipment.
•Provide staff training within engineering department on an on-going basis.
•Other ad hoc duties as required.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

1.Evidence of extensive experience working in a comparable role, preferably within the soft fruit industry
2.Strong appreciation of our business needs and resourcefulness in coming up with solutions to their challenges
3.Ability to relate to key client personnel in a professional and credible fashion
4.Well developed personal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of employees
5.Good interpersonal skills and well developed leadership and management skills
6.Creativity
7.Ability to delegate effectively and to follow-up as appropriate
8.Ability to work as part of a team with colleagues across professional, operational and cultural boundaries
9.Proactive approach and prompt responses to all service requests
10.Ability to identify needs and issues and recommend suitable and pragmatic courses of action and solutions, adopting a risk aware approach
11.Good time management and organisational skills with the ability to handle a number of tasks at once and meeting deadlines as required
12.Very good organisational skills
13.Good IT skills including experience of Word and Excel