Maintenance Engineer

Refresco; North West Leicestershire; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 58,000

Job description

Refresco Kegworth, England, United Kingdom

Maintenance Engineer

Are you a skilled Maintenance Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity in a fast-paced drinks manufacturing environment? Join our team and play a vital role in ensuring the smooth operation of our production lines. You’ll be responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting state-of-the-art machinery, minimizing downtime, and implementing proactive maintenance strategies to maximize efficiency. With a focus on innovation and quality, we offer a dynamic work environment where your expertise will make a real impact. If you’re ready to be part of a growing company and take your career to the next level, apply today!

Maintenance Engineer (either bias) – Kegworth, Derbyshire

Salary - £57,800

Shift Pattern: 3 on 3 off, 12-hour shifts, 6-6 (rotating days and nights)

What’s in it for you?

• Manufacturer training
• Career development planning
• Supportive team of engineers/engineering managers
• Life assurance
• Enhanced holiday allowance
• Free online medical support
• Premium overtime rate (1.5x of your basic salary)
• Access to employee benefits platform – Cheers which includes flexible benefits such as healthcare plans, dental plans, car schemes, activities pass and much more!
• State-of-the-art facility with lots of variety

The role of a Maintenance Engineer at Refresco

You will be an integral part of your team, ensuring the factory is kept up and running to its highest capacity, and work as part of a well-regarded, focused maintenance team. You will support both planned and reactive maintenance work throughout our factory on various equipment – of various age ranges, including; blow moulding machinery, pallet wrappers, shrink wrappers, conveyors, check weighers, palletizers, packaging machinery, processing systems, specialist food processing machinery, silos, pumps, pipework, pneumatics, etc.

What are your daily tasks as a Maintenance Engineer at Refresco?

• Working closely with the Engineering Team Leader, taking responsibility for delivering a high-quality Engineering service.
• Rapidly diagnosing and resolving mechanical and electrical faults.
• Completing a full range of maintenance activities across the entire installed asset base within your work area.
• Continuously working to improve performance to deliver site efficiency and performance standards.
• Get involved with factory improvement projects.

About You

We are looking for an experienced maintenance engineer (either biased) or a truly multi-skilled maintenance engineer. You’ll be an experienced, time-served, OR apprenticeship-trained Engineer who can rapidly diagnose and resolve problems and lead maintenance and continuous improvement activity too.

Candidates from an FMCG/food background would be highly desirable, however, we will consider candidates from other backgrounds. Ex-military are welcome to apply.

• Minimum L3 engineering qualification or time served
• Multi-skilled background – either biased
• Be confident enough to put forward new ideas and suggestions.
• Be accurate in your daily tasks and duties, paying great attention to detail.
• Experience working on processing equipment: pipework, pumps, silos, turning equipment
• Further skillset overview: fault finding in panels, Sensors, Relays, Inverters, Drives, Motors, Pumps, Pneumatics, and Pipework.

We welcome applications from individuals from all different backgrounds and are committed to promoting fair participation and equality of opportunity for all of our job applicants.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

Food and Beverage Services