Maintenance Engineer

Coventry
8 months ago
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Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer
Coventry, Warwickshire
£45,000
3 Nights A Week (Weds, Thurs, Fri) (5:45pm – 6:15am) (38 Hrs per week)

Benefits:

Great opportunity for training through MTC – Chance to be put through NVQ Level 3, Automation Training etc.

Private Health Care as standard including preexisting conditions.

Matched Pension up to 5%, subject to increase in the new year

We are looking to a multi skilled maintenance engineer with either a mechanical or electrical bias to join our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Coventry.  Boasting one of the cleanest environments in all of industrial manufacturing we are market leaders in manufacturing of our bespoke products.

We are a family run business who have been in operation for over 60 years, boasting an impressive annual turnover in excess of £30m, we have reinvested this success into our workforce with training on our bespoke machinery as well as brand new machinery in our constantly expanding site.

Your main roles and responsibilities will be maintenance and repair of chain and belt driven conveyors, hydraulics, pneumatics, 415/24v safety circuits, ABB Robots, Siemens S7 PLC systems. Knowledge of this machinery would be beneficial but is not a dealbreaker. You will be part of a shift of two on the night shift, so the role is not lone work.

Experience Required

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer 60:40 either bias is essential for this role.

Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a maintenance engineer in an industrial environment

Level 3 Qualification of some form in engineering/maintenance (NVQ, City and Guilds, HNC, Indentured Apprenticeship)

Knowledge of Siemens PLC systems would be beneficial.

Get in touch with Matt Morson at Stirling Warrington to find out more about this or any other maintenance opportunity in the Warwickshire area

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