Night Shift Engineer (SE21974 / 534) Suffolk, England
Salary: | GBP49000 - GBP50000 per annum + Benefits |
Night Shift Engineer
South Suffolk
Commutable from Cambridge, Sudbury, Duxford, Newmarket, Haverhill, Braintree, Halstead
£50,000 + Overtime
12hr Shift – 4on 4off Perm Nights (17:30-05:30)
Benefits:- Private Pension, Life Assurance, 22 Shifts Holiday
Our client is a leading one of the UK’s leading food manufacturers, part of a larger global group. They supply into all the major supermarkets and majority of foodservice outlets. Due to growth within the company they are looking for a number of multi-skilled maintenance engineer to work on their night shift.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Carry out both planned & reactive maintenance across all manufacturing & production areas
- Electrical & mechanical fault finding & repairs
- Work as sole engineer on night shift – support by production & hygiene teams
- Dealing with high-speed production lines, food processing & packaging machinery
- PLC – electrical fault finding
- Project work – continuous improvements, machine rebuilds, modifications/upgrades
- Worked on pneumatics, bearings, shafts, gearboxes, inverters, sensors, drives, pumps
- Monitoring & reporting on machine efficiencies, reliability and machine condition monitoring
- Reporting on machinery or component defects on the CMMS system
- Ensure that shift handover information is passed on effectively
- Contact OEM’s and suppliers for ordering spares, parts and reporting aftercare issues
- Coaching operators on asset care tasks on machinery
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
- Multi-skilled maintenance engineer
- Must be qualified to NVQ or City & Guilds Level 3 in Engineering
- Have completed a time-served apprenticeship
- Ideally have worked in food manufacturing/production previously, if not some form of FMCG
- Comfortable and confident with working as sole engineer on nights
- Beneficial to be trained on Multivac machinery
- PLC – electrical fault finding experience
- Have at least 10 years experience in maintenance engineering
- Solid electrical & mechanical experience with machine breakdowns and repairs
- Competent and confident with both electrical & mechanical fault finding and problem solving
- Understand food safety and hygiene regulations & standards
- Must have the ability and willingness to train quickly and learn new things
- Effective communicator
- Have used CMMS systems before
- Must have access to your own transportation / car to be able to get to site daily
SE21974 / 534
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