Maintenance Engineer, Lush
£30-35k
5+ days a week in office (Poole, Dorset, UK)
Handmade cosmetic products
Job no longer available
Handmade cosmetic products
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£30-35k
5+ days a week in office (Poole, Dorset, UK)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Lush's mission is to provide beauty lovers with handmade, wonderful cosmetics. It does this with a fundamental focus on sustainability, prioritising fresh ingredients, combating animal testing, and reducing packaging for its shower gels, bath bombs, shampoo, moisturisers and much more.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone passionate about making a difference, enjoys a challenge, and is keen to self-develop and maintain excellent operational/H&S standards in a busy company environment
- The person must have relevant mechanical/electrical engineering qualifications and 3+ years of engineering experience within an industrial/manufacturing environment
- Ability to self-manage on a day-to-day basis
- Good understanding and experience in using tools
- A flexible approach to work
- Represents themselves in management-level meetings (director involvement)
- The ability to time manage, work under pressure and keep to deadlines
- Good understanding of technology and computer skills
- Ability to be reactive and cope with change
- Embraces the ethics of the company and are able to apply this to their day-to-day work
- Able to recognize areas of improvement for self-development and pro-actively pursue them (training courses)
- Great written and verbal communication skills between the team and rest of the business
- Demonstrates integrity by behaving in an honest, fair and ethical way
- To carry out emergency breakdowns, unplanned problems and repairs alongside other engineers/ unaccompanied
- Holds both formal mechanical and electrical qualifications
What the job involves
- As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be part of a fast-paced team, who are responsible for the machinery and equipment for all Lush UK Manufacturing departments (all Poole-based sites). A Maintenance engineer is crucial to the maintenance team in supporting all UK manufacturing to run smoothly
- A maintenance engineer ensures daily operations run effectively through planning and undertaking scheduled maintenance/inspections, servicing, and responding to reactive breakdowns
- Managing stock and supplies including ordering with suppliers
- Help in carrying out planned preventative maintenance works on all machinery and equipment alongside other engineers/ unaccompanied
- Ensure you are working on health and safety legislation/regulations. Support health and safety in writing SOP’s/Machinery Checks
- Help in related projects within the business providing technical information and hands on support
- Assisting with leads/management in presenting projects/equipment director level
- Installation of new equipment
- Recruit and work alongside specialist trades/professionals
- Give clear and concise feedback- positive and constructive to external contractors
- Identifying & sourcing new equipment needs to be purchased
- Working with external companies when inspections are due on equipment
- To attend in house training courses when required
- General working hours would be between 7 am - 5 pm, Monday to Friday; we’re flexible, so happy to discuss working patterns
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Cosmetics are simultaneously one of the largest and one of the most polluting industries in the world. But Lush doesn't believe good quality beauty products need to have such a damaging impact on the environment.
Instead, it sets itself apart by producing all-natural, and ethically sourced cosmetics. All of its products are handmade, vegetarian, and are not tested on animals, whilst still doing good to users' skin.
With this approach, Lush is aiming to make sure that cosmetics and environmental sustainability are not mutually exclusive, helping to revolutionise the hundreds-of-billions-sized cosmetics industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments
- Discretionary and profit-based bonus
- Pension scheme
- Day off for weekday birthdays
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted rail and bus season tickets
- Employee assistance programme
- 6 months’ full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver)
- Financial childcare support on return to work
- Flexible working
- Support groups, film nights, yoga and meditation sessions and more..
Company HQ
Poole, UK
Leadership
Mo Constantine
(Co-Founder & Inventor)Mo worked as a legal secretary, before inventing for Cosmetics to Go. They invented several innovative and sustainable cosmetics products before co-founding Lush.
Mark Constantine
(Co-Founder, CEO & Inventor)Having worked at the mail order business Cosmetics to Go, Mark co-founded Lush in 1995, and works in Product Development and Business Operations.
Paul Greeves
(Co-Founder)Paul worked as a bio-chemist, before co-founding Lush. They have worked in several departments since then, including running Lush Labs and working in data security.
Helen Ambrosen
(Co-Founder & Investor)Helen started Lush with their fellow co-founders in 1995, since then she has worked as an Investor.
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