Multi-Skilled Engineer

Brace’s Bakery - Job Description/Specification

Job Title: Engineer Reports to: Engineering Team Leader

Department: Engineering Site: Croespenmaen

Who we are

Founded in 1902, Brace's Bakery has grown to become one of Wales's most recognised and trusted bakery brands. Built on four generations of family heritage, we have earned a strong reputation for quality products, reliable service, and operational excellence.

Now part of the Boparan Private Office portfolio, Brace's Bakery is entering an exciting phase of growth and investment. From our production and distribution operations in South Wales, we supply a wide range of bakery products to major retailers and independent customers across the region.

As our business continues to expand, maintaining the reliability and efficiency of our production equipment has never been more important. Our Engineering team plays a critical role in ensuring our bakery operations run safely, efficiently, and with minimal downtime, supporting the production of high-quality products that our customers rely on every day.

We are currently seeking an experienced and motivated Multi-Skilled Engineer to join our Engineering team. This is a hands-on role responsible for carrying out planned preventative maintenance, responding to equipment breakdowns, fault-finding across electrical and mechanical systems, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives throughout the site.

Working closely with Production, Hygiene, and Operational teams, you will play a key role in maximising equipment performance, improving reliability, and ensuring compliance with health and safety, food safety, and engineering standards. The successful candidate will be a proactive problem-solver, technically competent across both electrical and mechanical disciplines, and comfortable working within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing business and make a significant contribution to the ongoing success and development of Brace's Bakery.

Purpose of Role

To participate as a member of the Multi-Skilled Engineering team within a fully integrated team approach. Working with other departments to improve performance and to achieve Bakery objectives.

Key Role Accountabilities

• To ensure the safe working of all plant and equipment in line with Brace’s Bakery Health and Safety rules, regulations, and requirements.
• To ensure maximum machine available time at least cost, through effective planned preventative maintenance schedules.
• Together with other plant engineers and team leaders, actively strive to ensure that your time is orientated towards achieving machine maintenance hours on planned work.
• To ensure a thorough understanding of the manufacturing processes which allows complete integration of engineers, with production and hygiene staff through the team approach.
• Ensure that a Total Quality Approach is implemented across the site throughout all your duties.
• To maximise the resource base always and to ensure quality maintenance standards are obtained.
• Ensuring that spares used by yourself are always recorded by the appropriate means of recording and to ensure that spares delivered are placed into storage correctly.
• Continually monitor and pursue with a ‘best practice’ approach by skills enhancement and development of skills profiles by equipment requirements and active team role participation.
• To participate fully in an objective driven process engineering strategy which production and engineering management have set up with clearly defined objectives which are both realistic and achievable with clear performance indicators or performance measurement on all sides.
• Be responsible for the update of the plant register, providing information for, and ensuring all necessary precautions are adopted to comply with permits, both with Brace’s Bakery engineers and contractors. Ensuring always that third part engineers are managed safely on all other Bakery work.
• Developing and maintaining an effective working knowledge and diagnostic skills of all plant throughout the Bakery using the

Engineering Library and the literature.

• Ensuring that an effective safety and loss control programme is maintained effectively in the department.
• Playing an active role in the planning, controlling and over-seeing of the day-to-day routines and inspections.
• Ensuring all necessary housekeeping and plant inspections are completed in line with Brace’s Bakery auditing systems.
• To be an effective team member through meaningful liaison with key production members within the department to ensure the prioritisation of daily tasks and to minimise downtime and maximise machine available time.
• To attend SIC meetings and react to necessary actions.
• To be able to operate on a daily/weekly examination system and be responsible for actions deemed necessary from it.
• To be responsible for the overlap/handover to and from the other shift.
• To play an active role through teamwork in the production levels achieved in your department.
• Ensure you take the toolbox trolley to all jobs, and it’s kept up to the required standard with regards to cleanliness.
• Blow down the boiler on each shift and fill in the log sheet.

Communication

• To liaise with key staff members and managers.
• Participate and contribute to the operations team meetings (as and when required).
• Communicate with the Shift Manager and Technical Manager on issues involving quality and hygiene.
• To ensure all quality/hygiene documentation is completed and processed.

Training

• To undertake training to update knowledge and experience and/or according to industry and business needs.

Maintenance

• Ensuring that any equipment that fails to produce the quality/hygiene standards is identified and maintained in line with company procedures.
• That all equipment settings adhere to company procedures.

Quality

• Maintain the highest quality standard procedures.
• To ensure all quality documentation is completed.

Hygiene

• Ensure area of work is maintained in a hygienic manner.
• Adhere to all hygiene policies and procedures.
• Complete all documentation required for the company hygiene procedures.

Cleanliness

• Ensuring that all working practices are in line with the company procedures.
• Monitor the cleanliness of the production/engineering area.

Brace’s Bakery - Job Description/Specification

Health & Safety

• Ensure the compliance to all company health and safety procedures.
• Ensure the adherence to statuary regulations and legislation that affect the production of food.
• Ensure high standards of housekeeping adopting the ‘clean as you go’ approach.

Food Safety

• Ensure all activities in the area are carried out in accordance with Food Safety Procedures.
• Ensure high standards of housekeeping adopting the ‘clean as you go’ approach.

Key Skills and Accountabilities

• Motivating and building a genuine team ethos within the individuals designated area when on shift.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Understanding of in-house systems and procedures.
• Confident and able to meet deadlines.
• Speed, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Excellent understanding of production and planning.
• Excellent people and communication skills.
• Hygiene and quality control.
• Must be able to deal with team/individual performance.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ensure completion of quality & hygiene documentation.
• Supporting Continuous Improvement.
• Needs to be flexible regarding all aspects of your job role and give your full support to all new systems / ideas that are implemented within the company.

Note:

This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of tasks performed but does represent the major duties and responsibilities encompassed in the job. It does not prevent the jobholder from being allocated any other duties of a broadly similar nature to those described. Should these other duties become a permanent and major part of the job, they will be included in a revised specification.

Job Types: Permanent, Full-time

Pay: £44,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Application question(s):

• HNC in Mechatronics
• Level 3 in electrical and mechanical maintenance

Experience:

• Food industry: 5 years (required)

Work Location: In person