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Maintenance Engineer

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Role: Maintenance Engineer

Shift: 3 on 3 off Days and Nights

Salary: £58,000 (with O.T 1.5 + 2.0)

Location: Aylesford

The Company

Are you interested in working for an established yet continually growing conglomerate?

Would you like to take advantage of a fantastic benefits package?

Our client is one of the biggest British conglomerates with influence in multiple retail branches. With an impressive turnover in the tens of billions, they sort and package food and household items using fully automated machinery. Having invested almost half a billion into their high-tech site on brand-new automated robots and machines, they are currently looking for another motivated Maintenance Engineer to add to their team!

The Role

As a Maintenance Engineer, your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Fault finding electrically on sensors, relays, inverters, VFD’s, three phase motors, schematics etc.
Working with industrial mechanical equipment and components such as valves, bearings, shafts, rollers, pneumatics, hydraulics etc.
Getting stuck in with different Continuous Improvement Projects
Working with a team on state-of-the-art conveyors, stackers, de-stackers, washers, modern camera systems etc.
Performing Reactive and Planned Preventative Maintenance
About You

The ideal Maintenance Engineer will have the following:

A recognised engineering qualification
Experience working with a maintenance engineering team
A sound understanding of key electrical and mechanical components
Experience working both with a team and independently
Company Benefits

The company also discloses numerous benefits for the role of Maintenance Engineer which include:

20% retail and insurance discounts
Employee assistance programme
Ability to purchase additional holidays
A generous 7.5% company matched pension
Personalised training and clear product familiarisation
Overtime opportunities paid up to x2.0 to maximise your earnings!
ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation

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