Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer with Electrical Bias – 4 days on, 4 days off

If you are an electrically biased Maintenance Engineer, seeking a days based role (no nights!) with a long established, stable company, this could be the role for you.  This role is for a Multi Skilled, qualified Maintenance Engineer to join a friendly, well known food manufacturer in Ilkeston.

You will be working closely with the production team to ensure that food production and packaging machinery downtime is kept to a minimum.  You will have a pro-active attitude and approach, identifying and recommending areas of improvement to achieve the necessary continuity and efficiency of production.

Shifts:

• 4 days on, 4 days off
• Working 6 am – 6 pm

Benefits:

• Salary up to £44,000
• Pension up to 6% employer contribution
• 20 days holiday
• Life Cover, Healthcare Cash Plan, 24/7 Counselling Hotline, Cycle 2 Work Scheme, Staff Shop, Retail Discount Scheme

Key responsibilities of Maintenance Engineer:

• Ensure high quality production output is achieved through effective maintenance.
• Fault finding and breakdown repairs of equipment and site services.
• Effective PPM and reactive maintenance
• Contributing to CI and capital projects
• Complete documentation accurately
• Support and coach colleagues in shared maintenance aspects
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements including all Health and Safety issues, policies and codes of practice.

Experience and skills required of a Maintenance Engineer:

• Qualified Maintenance Engineer to Level 3 or ideally HNC level
• Ideally apprenticeship trained
• Electrically biased, knowledge of PLC systems
• Experience of Maintenance Engineering within a food, packaging, or high-volume manufacturing.
• Confident to work on own when required.
• Proactive attitude to solving issues and supporting production.
• Ability to carry out all types of engineering maintenance including electrical, mechanical, pneumatics, hydraulics, steam systems, robotics, inverters.

To apply

If you are an experienced Maintenance Engineer looking for a new challenge at a great company please apply by sending your CV, or if you need further information please contact Louise Wilson on or at

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