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Maintenance Engineer

Hay Mills
3 weeks ago
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Maintenance Engineer

Birmingham

£43,000 - £44,000

Monday - Friday double days
6am - 2pm / 2pm - 10pm rotating

The Company:

Want to work as an engineer within a fast paced FMCG business? They are a family owned business who manufacture out of an automated factory, due to expansion and investing in a brand new packaging line and canning lines they are now looking for a nights maintenance engineer to join the team on a permanent basis. As a Maintenance Engineer, all overtime available which is ALL paid at x1.5. The role involves a mixture of PPM and reactive breakdowns. Some of the machinery you will be working on will include conveyors, packaging machines, palletisers, de-palletisers, metal detectors, box-erectors, robots, filling lines, pumps and much more. Main PLC's they have on site are Siemens S7 - TRAINING COURSE ON PLC'S AND MECH-ELEC CONVERSION COURSES AVAILABLE. They are happy to look at both mech and elec bias maintenance engineer. Note - a lot of the work does involve mechanical just to be aware of. 

Why work for them as a maintenance engineer?

Good staff retention 
8 hour shifts 
28 days holiday
Great retention with the Maintenance Engineer department - investment into engineers i.e training courses 
Won some brand new contracts and always growing
Full training on bespoke machinery
Experience required for the Maintenance Engineer:

Minimum 3 year’s experience working as a multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer ideally within a fast paced manufacturing environment. 
Qualified in an Engineering discipline – C&G/NVQ
Must have knowledge of 3-phase motors, contactors, sensors, relays and basic electrical 
Need to be mechanically sound - bearings, straps, chains, belts etc 
Any Maintenance Engineer from a manufacturing environment welcome – FMCG, Food, plastic, packaging, Pharmaceutical, foundry, brick, distribution, automotive, metals, RAF, Forces etc

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