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Maintenance Engineer

Knaresborough
5 months ago
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Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

£46-52k, + £4.9k average overtime

Excellent opportunity to join a company who offer up-skilling, training and salary progression.

We are happy to consider engineers with a mechanical or electrical bias from any industry who have transferable skills into a manufacturing environment and want to develop into multiskilled engineers.

The role:

Undertaking planned and preventative machinery maintenance electrical (20%) and mechanical (80%) in a volume manufacturing environment
Ensuring minimal down time, equipment safety and machinery efficiency to maintain production at full capacity.
Working to the PPM undertaking, service, maintenance and repair of equipment in a timely manner
Leading project work to improve plant performance such as machine modifications
Tracing electrical faults, fault-finding on PLC's, inverters, drives
Working with hydraulics and pneumatic's
Water jet cutters and presses and robotic equipment
Ensuring compliance to relevant safety and environmental regulations

Qualifications:

Ideally apprentice trained in Mechanical or electrical engineering or holding a relevant degree
Hold either level 3 electrical or 18th Edition
Ideally hold Ipaf Certificate

The person

Previous experience in a maintenance role with transferable skills into manufacturing
Excellent knowledge of electrical and mechanical fault finding and repair
The ability to read and interpret mechanical and electrical drawings
Confident with hydraulics and pneumatics and compressors
PLC Fault Interrogation ideally on Siemens S7
Experience of soft starts, Invertors, safety gates and emergency stops
Any experience of ABB robotics would be of great interest

Hours:

Rotating shifts Mon to Fri - (Apply online only), (Apply online only) & (Apply online only).

There will be an expectation for some project weekend work (1 in 6) paid at overtime rate time plus one third.

Benefits:

Salaries are offered based on a skills matrix with the opportunity to undertake training and development to enhance your knowledge and salary
25 days per year holiday + Bank
Competitive company pension scheme
Death in Service of 4 x salary
Training
Overtime available average per year is £4.9k

Call Yasemin at Travail on (phone number removed)

Travail Employment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy

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