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Maintenance Engineer

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Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Tamworth

£42,000 Monday - Friday 34 hours a week!
Monday – Thursday 06:00-13:30/ - 06:00am -12:30pm Friday
Monday - Thursday 13:30 - 21:00/ -Friday /12:30-19:00

overtime at x1.5 and double time - loads of overtime, easily earn £50,000 

The Company:

The company are doing very well at the moment - they have increased sales by 40% this year alone, they have a fully automated state of the art production facility in Tamworth. They will give you full training on the machines, most of their machinery on site is bespoke. The machines you will be working on include:  etching and coating lines, robotics, CNC drill and rout machines, hitachi laser drillers, pluritec x-ray drill machines and optical registration machines, Most of the machines are controlled by siemens S7. 

This role could suit an engineer who is looking to step up into a supervisor role, choice to become supervisor in a few months which will see a salary increase and working days only. 

Benefits for the maintenance engineer:

Great working culture
Good structured training with senior engineers
Technical progression
Expanding business – job stability
Chance to up-skill and progress 

Experience required for the maintenance engineer:

Have at least 3 year’s experience repairing and maintaining special purpose plant machinery – multi-skilled
Have an electrical qualification equivalent to C&G/BTEC/NVQ
Be able to read schematic drawings/electrical wiring diagrams/worked with 3-phase motors, sensors, drives, contactors, relays
PLC fault finding advantageous, but this is not essential
Any manufacturing background welcome to apply: FMCG/Food/Metals/Recycling/Automation/Foundry/Brick/ Aerospace
Commutable from Birmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton, west Bromwich Tamworth

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