Maintenance Engineer - Shift - New Plant

Control Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Huyton, Merseyside
8 months ago
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Shift Leader – Mechanical
Location Huyton
Salary £55,000 + pension + 28 – 33 days holiday + progression opportunities
Hours 3 on 3 off - 3 days | 3 off | 3 nights | 3 off
A genuinely superb & quite unique opportunity for a shift leader or maintenance engineer to join a market leading business to help setting up and shaping a department.

  • Brand new state of the art facility with plans for rapid expansion in the near future.
  • Extremely stable and well run company with a track record of reinvestment into people and facilities.
  • Lots of career development opportunities
  • Clean & safe environment making sustainable, in demand, every day products in a very stable industry sector.
    The Job:
  • Be part of a team to initially help set up the plant / factory, assist with installation and commissioning of new machinery and equipment.
  • Responsible for operating, monitoring, and maintaining the converting lines.
  • Lead a multidisciplinary team of operators.
  • Troubleshoot / maintain manufacturing and materials handling machinery such as, conveyors, high speed materials processing machines, pneumatics, PLC’s, bearings, wrappers, palletisers, packaging machinery.
    The Person:
  • Seeking 1 x Electrical bias & 1 x Mechanical bias
  • Apprentice trained, NVQ 3, ONC, HNC
  • Good communication, stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills important.
  • Manufacturing plant experience eg materials, packaging, FMCG, food, automated warehousing, stackers, sorters / sortation, robotics, sensors, scanners, labellers, conveyors, printing, materials handling, glass, plastics, paper, converting, metals, medical, pharmaceutical.
  • May suit a maintenance engineer / technician seeking more of a leadership role.
    To apply please send CV to Tim Fawcett at Control Recruitment Solutions or call the office number.
    Key words – shift team leader, shift leader, shift supervisor, maintenance engineer; CI engineer, process improvement ; lean engineer; manufacturing supervisor, converting manager; converting supervisor, FMCG, food, beverages, alcohol, drinks, palletizer; conveyor; brewery, paper, tissue, recycling; circular; pallets; containers; packaging, medical; ceramics; plastics; rubber; building materials; building products; corrugator; bakery, chocolate, confectionary, dairy, snacks, frozen, ambient foods; FMCG, automated warehousing, stackers, sorters / sortation, robotics, sensors, scanners, labelers, conveyors, packaging or printing, materials handling, recycling plant, foundry, chemical plant, brewery, paper mill, cement works, brick works, asphalt plant, manufacturing plant, electromechanical / automated plant. Ex Forces engineers, raf, reme, navy, marine, HNC / HND / Time served / formal apprenticeship, Drives, inverter drives, Instrumentation, control systems engineer, automation engineer , controls engineer, ECI Engineer , EC engineer , electrical and automation engineer

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