Maintenance Lead

Maintenance Lead

Ashby de la Zouch (Home of Hula Hoops, Space Raiders, Skips and more)

Days based role, Mon to Fri (no shifts)

Company Overview

KP Snacks is proud to be part of the Intersnack Group. With an annual turnover of more than €3 billion, the Intersnack Group has grown and flourished to become a market leader in savoury snacks, present in over 30 countries across Europe, Australia, New Zealand and beyond, employing more than 14,000 employees and 44 factories globally.

In the UK, KP Snacks consists of approximately 2,300 colleagues across our seven factory locations and Slough HQ. We make great tasting snack brands such as Hula Hoops, McCoy’s, Pombear, KP Nuts, Butterkist popcorn, Tyrrells, and popchips.

Salary: £47,566pa

Some of the benefits you can expect to receive:

• Bonus scheme
• Medicash Health cash plan
• Private Healthcare (dependent on Grade)
• KP Pension Plan – matching contribution stakeholder pension plan (up to 7% of salary) which also includes life assurance and income protection
• 25 days holiday
• 5-year service additional holiday
• Annual salary review
• MyGym Discounts
• Cancer Care
• Holiday Buy (buy up to an additional 5 days holiday per year)
• Career Break
• Cycle to Work
• Company Sick Pay – once eligible
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Digital GP
• Best Doctors - 2nd medical opinion
• Access to KP4ME - online benefits, discounts, prizes, competitions and information platform with access to mental, physical and financial wellbeing information and tools

The Role

As a Maintenance Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in the production line team. You’ll be the lead Maintenance Engineer for an area and be part of a leadership team of 3 (Process Lead, Maintenance Lead, and Line Lead).

The Maintenance Lead is responsible for overseeing and delivering defined engineering processes within your area. These processes are primarily designed to reduce machine stoppages and ensure the correct level of asset care and maintenance strategy is deployed to each equipment item. This will be achieved by leading and coaching the entire area team to deliver true Autonomous Maintenance. You’ll review losses within the area, develop action plans, and deliver sustained improvement results.

You will be a crucial resource to ensure that the correct level of engineering capability is achieved within the team to progress our zero loss journey. This role will also require you to play a key role in the delivery of your own improvement initiatives along with larger capital projects for your area.

You’ll be an excellent coach and motivator, with significant, demonstrable experience in this area. Some of your day-to-day/regular activities will include:

• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling DMs (Daily Maintenance) for the lines
• Review of all breakdowns and deploy the appropriate countermeasure to prevent reoccurrence
• Oversee the Maintenance Planning for your area
• Provide updates during DDS (Daily Direction Setting meeting) to review breakdowns and Maintenance plans from the last 24hrs
• Prepare and lead the scheduling of the maintenance work for the next week during the weekly maintenance meeting
• Work with other Maintenance Leads to support the Progressive Maintenance (PM) Pillar by updating key KPI’s and attending Pillar meetings
• Prepare the schedules for monthly maintenance work as dictated by the annual maintenance plan
• Assist the Autonomous Maintenance (AM) Pillar by building capability within our daily management systems
• Develop coaching plans to improve your area team’s capability to deliver the correct levels of maintenance

Who are we?

Glad you asked! We're KP Snacks, proud to be part of the Intersnack family. Picture this: over 15,000 of us, spread across more than 30 countries, all working together to create the snacks you love. From Hula Hoops to McCoy's, we're the team behind your favourite munchies.

Here in the UK, we're about 2,400 strong, spread across seven factories and our Slough HQ. But don't let our size fool you – we're as close-knit as they come. We believe in speaking our minds, celebrating our differences, and pushing boundaries together.

Diversity isn't just a buzzword for us. We're on a mission to create a workplace where everyone belongs. So, even if you don't tick every box, we want to hear from you! Your unique perspective could be just what we need. Also, if there's anything we can do to make this process easier for you, just give us a shout.

The Candidate:

In order to be successful in the role, you’ll need certain skills, experience, and knowledge, including:

• A minimum level 3 electrical qualification with hands-on experience (Essential)
• HNC/HND or Degree in an Engineering discipline (ideally with an electrical bias) – (Highly desirable)
• Previously worked with a TPM /RCM maintenance environment -– (Highly desirable)
• Proven strong engineering and problem-solving skills - (Essential)
• Experience of utilising Lean tools and techniques - (Highly desirable)
• Previous coaching experience - - (Highly desirable)