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Maintenance Engineer - Days

Deeside
1 week ago
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Maintenance Engineer | Mon – Fri days | No weekends

Location Deeside / Chester

Salary £45,000 + pension + 26 days holiday + 8 bank holidays + benefits

Hours Mon – Friday day time

  • 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:

  • Be part of a team to initially help set up the plant, factory, systems and processes.

  • This role is the first engineering role in the automated high bay warehouse so is quite an autonomous role initially with good challenges and prospects.

  • Maintain manufacturing and materials handling machinery such as conveyors, materials handling machines, bearings, wrappers, packaging machinery.

  • Monitor materials and goods flowing in and out of the warehouse.

  • Reactive and preventive maintenance, changeovers.

  • Contribute to downtime improvements, HSE.

  • Guide and assist operators eg lubrication tasks.

    The Person:

  • The work is likely to be more mechanical so happy / able to preform mechanical duties.

  • Able to fault find and isolate electrically to enable sensor changes.

  • NVQ 3 or ONC or HNC

  • Good communication, stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills important.

  • Suitable backgrounds can include (but not limited to) manufacturing plant experience eg materials, packaging, FMCG, food, 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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