MAINTENANCE ENGINEER

Position: Maintenance Engineer
Location: Leicester
Salary: £48,000 + Benefits

An Electrically biased Maintenance Engineer is required to carry out maintenance within a team of Maintenance Engineers responsible for the electrical and mechanical maintenance on new and existing equipment.

Job Purpose

Ensure all plant, equipment & site services are maintained and repaired in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner while ensuring all plants are run to their maximum efficiency. Manage the engineering resource and ensure compliance with all current codes of practice including standards and any statutory compliance.

Responsibilities

1. Ensuring that the equipment and plant are maintained.
2. Reacting to breakdowns quickly and efficiently.
3. PLC fault finding to input and output level.
4. Remedy issues highlighted by our in-house HAACP audits.
5. Responding to out-of-hours calls for breakdowns.
6. Enhance the machine's reliability through regular planned preventative maintenance.
7. Troubleshooting on electrical equipment is a must.

Qualifications

The successful Maintenance Engineer ideally will have experience with food process machinery and will have some of the following qualifications:

1. BTECH/ONC qualification as a minimum in an Electrical discipline or Multi skilled Engineering qualification.
2. C&G 2330 Level 3 Electro-technical certificate combined with NVQ 3 Electrical Maintenance.
3. Time served apprentice.
4. HNC level in electrical, mechanical or production maintenance engineering.

This position would suit; Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Technician, Electrical Maintenance Engineer, Shift Engineer, Day Engineer, Multi Skilled Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Service Engineer or Packaging Engineer.

We are looking for a motivated individual, as there will be many opportunities for further development/up-skilling within this role.