Electrical & Automation Manager

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an ambitious Electrical and Automation Manager to join our Cereal Partners Worldwide site in Bromborough. Cereal Partners UK, a powerful alliance between Nestlé and General Mills and manufacturers many household brands, such as Shreddies, Cheerios and Nesquik.

This role will have responsibility for ensuring competent MES-E&A management and operations. You will need to provide support for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Electricity and Automation (E&A) professional and technical activities and during participation in CAPEX projects; doing so in line with corporate guidelines, enforcing that all MES-E&A activities enhance business objectives, product quality and plant operation/performance while ensuring that people health and safety, product safety, and environment are never compromised.

This role holds the position of Senior Electrical Duty Holder and Machinery Duty Holder and instrument calibration Duty Holder and ensure all Duty Holders are sufficiently appointed, mentored, and fully supported.

A day in the life of…an Electrical and Automation Manager

The main purpose of this role ensuring competent MES-E&A management and operations. You will do this by building Engineering capability across the site and your teams and ensuring that personnel managing, operating and maintaining MES-E&A equipment and infrastructure are competent to do so.

A key part of your role will be to define standards and then ensure and measure adherence and compliance to these standards. It will be important to manage key internal relationships with the Factory Engineering team, as well as production, SH&E, QA and logistic teams.

We are looking for a competent management professional supported by a strong technical background.

• Minimum 3 years Automation and/or MES engineer with Electrical experience



• Electrical and/or Automation engineering degree or equivalent



• Personnel Supervision (of technical teams, contractors or other 3rd parties)


• Participation in the development of engineering projects as part of a multidisciplinary team (preferably including different products and technologies in Electrical and Automation areas)


• Participation in the start-up of technical equipment(s) and/or production line(s)


• Self-Management following defined KPIs/Objectives, and proactively tracking them


• NCE and TPM methodologies


• Experience required in Electricity, Process Control, Loop Tuning, Instrumentation and PLC/HMI programming


• Food processing plants and technologies, including food safety, hygienic engineering and Nestlé proprietary technology, if any


• Specific AMM tools in their area of expertise


• SH&E and QM Policies (among others NGHE, NEMS, NEST, ISO 14001/22000, OHSAS 18000).


• Innovation & Renovation process


• Process IT knowledge including understanding of FAS infrastructure
  
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Salary: Competitive salary plus potential bonus and other fantastic benefits.

Although this is a full time, permanent opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual's flexible working needs, don't let this stop you from applying., What can we offer in return? Great benefits you'd expect from a business the size of Nestlé - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.