21 Oct
Orbia
Doncaster
Job description
Join us at Wavin : Where purpose comes to life.
You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.
Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for good enough when there’s an opportunity to make life better.
Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?
At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments.
And where is our help most needed? The places we live in : cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater.
It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!
We are currently looking for a Lead Engineer to join us at Doncaster . If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Lead Engineer will be responsible for providing leadership and direction to the Maintenance Team, including delegation of work and monitoring individual and team performance.
The role is responsible for identifying and prioritizing proactive and reactive maintenance tasks on a daily basis and overseeing plant safety.
The successful candidate will also support the Engineering Manager in the day to day running of the department and deputise in their absence.
The role
- Communicate with the Site Leadership Team escalating any problems or issues related to Production and Engineering.
- To check and update the Agility CMMS on a daily basis, closing out completed jobs, tracking the progress of PMs, and ensuring all work is delegated or undertaken accordingly.
- Lead the Engineering Team on day-to-day maintenance activities and maintaining machine availability.
- Coordinate workplace organisation and workload across the Engineering Department, maintaining planned work, including PPM and improvement work.
- Actively and analytically fault find.
- Liase with the Engineering Manager and Maintenance Planner regarding departmental and site projects.
- Maintain maintenance monitoring.
- Provide hands-on support for Assembly Team Leaders and employees, ensuring consistency between shifts.
- Liase with Engineering and Production departments to ensure effective shift changeovers and handovers for both departments are completed.
- Supervise the team and contractors, including permit writing and inductions.
- Identify, implement and plan in PPM and AM schedules and activities, driving continuous improvement.
- Operate in line with all Wavin Health and Safety standards and procedures.
- Oversee plant safety, including site emergency evacuation procedures.
- Implement and adhere to safe working practices in accordance with legislation.
- Drive health and safety and environmental related issues through supporting safety concern and behavioral audits.
- Lead accident investigations in line with HSE policy.
- Coach and mentor the Engineering Team, including Apprentices to develop succession planning.
- Identify training requirements within the Engineering Team.
The profile
The successful candidate will possess strong, technical knowledge in injection moulding, plastics extrusion, and automated assembly systems with experience in motivating and leading a team in a demanding environment.
The postholder will have a commitment to the performance management of both a team and individuals and have a desire to contribute to their continued professional development through the application of coaching and mentoring methods.
We are keen to welcome candidates with excellent communication skillls across all mediums in addition to effective organisational skills and flexiblility to ensure operational deadlines are met.
A high degree of computer literacy is also required for the role and the postholder must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite.
What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers
Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company.
We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world.
Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day.
Orbia B&I; is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.
Organization
Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry.
Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens.
Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I; collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers,
contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes.
Orbia B&I; has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network.
Our key commercial brands are : Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.
Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia a company driven by a shared purpose : to advance life around the world.
Orbia operates in several sectors including : Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura).
These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness,
reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions.
Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv.
The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.