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Maintenance Engineer - 6-2 | 2-10 | 10-6

Deeside
4 days ago
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Maintenance Engineer - Shifts | Mon – Fri no weekends

Location Deeside

Salary £49,500 - £53,000 + pension + 26 days holiday + bank holidays + benefits

Hours Mon – Friday 8 hour shifts – 6 – 2 | 2 – 10 | 10 – 6

  • A genuinely superb & quite unique opportunity for a multiskilled maintenance engineer to join a market leading business to help setting up and shaping a department.

  • Brand new state of the art facility with plans for further expansion in the near future.

  • Extremely stable and well run company with a track record of reinvestment into people and facilities.

    The Job:

  • Reporting into the Maintenance Manager, be part of a team to initially help set up the plant / factory, assist with installation and commissioning of new machinery and equipment.

  • Maintain manufacturing and materials handling machinery such as, conveyors, high speed materials processing machines, pneumatics, PLC’s, SCADA, bearings, wrappers, packaging machinery.

  • Reactive and preventive maintenance, changeovers, workshop duties.

  • Contribute to downtime improvements, HSE.

    The Person:

  • Seeking 1 x Electrical bias / NVQ 3 or ONC or HNC

  • Experience working with PLCs – eg Siemens, Allen Bradely, Mitsubishi

  • Good understanding of LEAN manufacturing principles would be an advantage

  • Good communication, stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills important.

  • Manufacturing plant experience eg materials, packaging, FMCG, automated warehousing, stackers, sorters / sortation, robotics, sensors, scanners, labellers, conveyors, printing, materials handling, glass, plastics, paper, converting, metals, medical, pharmaceutical.

    To apply please send CV to Tim Fawcett at Control Recruitment Solutions or call the office number.

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