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Maintenance Engineer

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Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer
Wellingborough
£42,000 - £45,000
Three Shifts (6am – 2pm, 8am – 4pm, 2pm – 10pm) (Earlies, Days and Lates) – No Nights or Weekends

Benefits:

Company bonus up to as much as 10% on top of your annual salary 

Cash Health Plan – Free for children, family and enhanced cover can be added 

10% Pension (5% Matched) 

No nights or weekends

We are looking for a multi skilled maintenance engineer with an electrical bias to join our maintenance team of 3 at our manufacturing facility in Wellingborough.

A family run business in operation for over 30 years we are specialists in what we do and boast an excellent retention rate and employee satisfaction is paramount to our operation. We have made substantial investment into new machinery across the site in the last 2 years and have further growth plans to continue doing so.

Your role and responsibilities will be a mixture of planned and reactive maintenance across a variety of bespoke machinery such as mills, robots, roasters, blow lines, blenders. This role is a good mixture of reactive maintenance and ppms. We have a heavy team focus on projects and involve all members to ensure continuous improvements.

Ideal Candidate

Minimum of 3 years experience as an electrically biased maintenance engineer 

Ideally from an FMCG/Food manufacturing background – Applicants from other backgrounds e.g. Automotive, Distribution are still very much encouraged to apply. 

Proactive and an attitude where you love getting stuck in on jobs. 

Some form of maintenance related qualification (City and Guild, NVQ, HNC etc)
Get in touch with Matt Morson at Stirling Warrington to find out more about this role

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