Maintenance Engineer

Description

Maintenance Engineer GBP21.92 an hour, Preston, Lancashire.

DAYS 37 hours a week.

Wednesday 6am 3:30pm

Thursday 6am 6:30pm

Friday 6am 6:30pm

Saturday 6am 12:30pm

Overtime available at X1.5, holiday equivalent to 22.5 shifts off, pension, Death in service.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer to join one of the leading meat processing companies in the UK. This business is part of a larger group, so it has major backing to support its success. It supplies to all major retailers across the country. You ll be implemented into a team of 10 Engineers in total. Conducting PPMs and reactive maintenance across all site machinery. The site is fast paced, depending on demand. The company process over 1 million cattle and 3.5 million lamb per annum. The site is open 24/7 but production is from 5am to 6:30pm.

The Role

As a maintenance engineer, you ll work with a range of brand-new machinery including:

Slicers, choppers, conveyors and sealing machinesThermoforming machines, metal detectors and labelling machines Your focus will be 75% reactive and 25% PPM, using a tablet system for job tracking. The role places a strong emphasis on maintenance and repair. You ll need to be working with pneumatics, gearboxes, bearings, shafts, chains, sensors, and control panels etc. Fault finding via PLC is essential. Any welding experience is highly desirable.

The Person We re Looking For

To succeed in this role as a maintenance engineer, you ll need:

A strong background in maintenance within FMCG manufacturing environments and used to physical workExperience and competent working on both mechanical and electrical components whilst abiding to H&S regulations.Confidence with strip-downs, rebuilds, and reactive maintenanceAn NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, or equivalent qualification in engineeringA proactive attitude and hard worker who can deal with a fast-paced production environment This is an ideal role for a maintenance engineer who wants to develop their skills in a stable, well-backed facility with real training opportunities.

Why apply?

Joining our client, you will be joining a business that place emphasis on training, development of their engineers. The company has been established for over 50 years, the site in Preston is one out of thirteen in the UK; however, it is one of the most profit contributors. Therefore, it offers strong job security. You will be joining a company that look after their engineer s future.

If you think you are the right maintenance engineer for this market leader, please press apply, call Sam on (phone number removed), or email your CV too (url removed)

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