Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Leeming Bar
4 months ago
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Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer – FMCG

Location: Leeming Bar

Salary: £51,300 - £58,289 (after 6 months) + Pension + Overtime

Continental Shift System - Split Days & Nights

Reference: Jo6758/SB

The Company

Based within one of the UK’s leading specialists, privately owned FMCG manufacturing companies, my client is looking to recruit an experienced maintenance engineer to add to their engineering team. The facility in Leeming Bar will benefit from further investment this year, to increase capacity. This manufacturing company is a well established business supplying into major blue chip manufacturers and is an extremely secure organisation.

Key Skills

  • Apprentice Trained Engineer in Electrical Engineering

  • Experience of PLC Systems & Automated Machinery

  • Understanding of PPM Systems within FMCG

    The Role

    You will have served a minimum of a full apprenticeship in electrical engineering and have experience working within planned and preventative maintenance schedules (PPM Systems), working with equipment such as packaging, labelling machines, flow wrappers, conveyors, fillers, bottling lines, Krones production equipment, robotics. and processing machinery within a high speed PLC controlled automated environment.

    In addition to this you will have the experience and ability to work within a multi skilled team and have the responsibility for the maintenance of automated manufacturing machinery and factory services, ensuring the smooth running of all aspects of engineering in this high speed food manufacturing plant.

    If you are interested in this role, please send a copy of your current CV using the details provided, interviews will be held locally and the company is looking to recruit this role as soon as possible.

    ETS Consulting Ltd – Recruitment specialists with specific areas of expertise in the Manufacturing, Technical, Engineering and Sales markets.

    ETS Consulting Limited act as an employment business and employment agency and are registered in England and Wales as ETS Consulting Limited, registered no (phone number removed). Registered office address 7 Stamford Square, Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, United Kingdom, OL6 6QU.

    If one of our consultants contacts you in relation to this role, please be aware that as part of our registration process you will be required to provide ETS Consulting with proof of your identity along with proof of your eligibility to work in the United Kingdom

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