Maintenance Technician

Blackburn
2 days ago
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Maintenance Technician

Salary: £47,000 + Pension + Benefits

12 hour Panama shift system, rota working 2 weeks days/2 weeks nights

Location: Blackburn

Reference: Jo6921/PL

The Company

An excellent opportunity has arisen with one of the UK’s instantly recognisable manufacturers, who are an international employer with over 45 years’ experience, specialising in the production of plastic products for the consumer and chemical industries using plastic blow moulding technology.

Key Skills

* Apprentice Trained Mechanical Engineer

* Experience of Moulding Machinery

* Understanding of PPM Systems within Manufacturing

The Role

The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of day-to-day electrical and mechanical engineering and maintenance activities ensuring work is carried out to the highest standards and maximising machine efficiencies. You will have served a minimum of a full apprenticeship in electrical or mechanical engineering and have experience working within planned and preventative maintenance schedules, project based work within a high speed automated environment. On a day to day basis, you will be responsible for fault diagnostics and repair of a wide variety of automated machines and processes including moulding machinery, and robotics. This job also involves various PPM tasks and project works. There is a huge amount of training on offer, so the successful candidate will be in line to broaden their skills considerably.

If you are interested in this role, please send a copy of your current CV using the details provided, interviews will be held locally, and the company is looking to recruit this role as soon as possible.

ETS Consulting Ltd – Recruitment specialists with specific areas of expertise in the Manufacturing, Technical, Engineering and Sales markets.

ETS Consulting Limited act as an employment business and employment agency and are registered in England and Wales as ETS Consulting Limited, registered no (phone number removed). Registered office address 7 Stamford Square, Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, United Kingdom, OL6 6QU.

If one of our consultants contacts you in relation to this role, please be aware that as part of our registration process you will be required to provide ETS Consulting with proof of your identity along with proof of your eligibility to work in the United Kingdom

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