Maintenance Engineer - Electrical Bias

Stockport
2 months ago
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Maintenance Engineer - Electrical Bias

Stockport

Rotating Days and Nights

£57,000+ Leading benefits structure including 10% Pension, Bonus Scheme, Life Assurance, Holiday, Training, Overtime, Canteen with a number of free meals, financial advice and EAP

This is a brilliant opportunity to work for a true leader in the UK Food Manufacturing industry. Championing Engineering processes, teamwork, upskilling and progression this is the perfect environment for a seasoned engineer that has some experience with leading teams, setting standards and implementing maintenance improvements.

Role Description - What you will be doing

General Maintenance across the site

  • Electrical and Mechanical Breakdowns and Repairs
  • Fault Finding on both Electrical and Mechanical Faults
  • Adhering to Health & Safety on site at all times
  • Working on improvement projects with machinery, processes, training
  • Reporting into the Maintenance Manager
  • Maintenance on fast paced machinery, presses, robotics, PLC's
  • Team meetings, mentoring and support of maintenance staff in a small team on the shift Skills and Qualifications required:

    Time-Served Maintenance Engineering Experience
  • Industrial Engineering Background in a fast paced environment
  • Fault finding ability both Electrically & Mechanically
  • Motivated to work in a team environment
  • Ability to work independently
  • Willingness to train & take on internal training opportunities

    Company Information
    Both Hunter Selection & our client strive to build an inclusive work environment for all and will consider all candidates without regard to gender, including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity or trade union membership. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruitment process please let us know.

    In return for your commitment my client offers a stable and secure career for technically motivated engineers. If you feel this is of interest, please send your CV to directly to Ben Watkins at (url removed)

    If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

    Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

    Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

    For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business

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