FMCG Maintenance Engineer: PLCs, Electrical & Uptime

Catering; Bradford; On-site; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Training

Casual dress

Job summary

Catering is seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer to maintain and improve process and packaging equipment on a fast-paced FMCG site in Bradford. You will deliver effective service support, diagnose faults, and apply preventative maintenance to minimise downtime.

Experience with electrical and mechanical fault finding, PLCs, motors/inverters, and safety/Hygiene standards in food environments is preferred. This permanent role includes pension and training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Recognised Electrical or multi skilling qualification or time served apprenticeship.
• Previous experience within a manufacturing or FMCG environment would be advantageous.
• Ability to investigate, diagnose and rectify faults to a proven level of competency is required.
• Experience with electrical, single, 3 phase, motors and inverters, as well as PLCs fault finding experience and mechanical, pneumatics, bearings and drives experience is required throughout this role.
• Previous experience with root cause analysis is advantageous
• A sound understanding of health and safety standards is required with experience of hygiene procedures, standards and equipment in the food industry is desirable.
• Ability to record in writing or by the use of computers, various information such as work done, time taken, material used etc, in the appropriate equipment logbook or asset history file in accordance with record retention where required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure breakdowns are addressed and repaired in a timely manner.
• Fault find, diagnose and rectifying both mechanical and electrical faults
• Deliver equipment preventative maintenance schedule to avoid machine downtime.
• Continuous improvement activities to drive to improve machine uptime, ensure compliance with company policies and procedures, standards of operation, and safe operating procedures.
• Project work as and when required
• To carry out any other reasonable management instruction to the expected standards which ultimately supports the business.

Skills

Electrical fault diagnosis

PLC fault finding

Machinery maintenance

Root cause analysis

Health & safety awareness

Education

Electrical qualification or time-served apprenticeship

Tools

Electrical testing instruments

Job description

Catering is seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer to maintain and improve process and packaging equipment on a fast-paced FMCG site in Bradford. You will deliver effective service support, diagnose faults, and apply preventative maintenance to minimise downtime.

Experience with electrical and mechanical fault finding, PLCs, motors/inverters, and safety/Hygiene standards in food environments is preferred. This permanent role includes pension and training opportunities.