Maintenance Engineer

Agri-Web Limited; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full PPE provided

Training & development

Pension & benefits

Overtime opportunities

Job summary

ABN, the UK’s leading animal feed business, is looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join the on-site team at Flixborough. You will carry out reactive and preventive maintenance on conveyors, boilers, pumping and control panels, ensuring safety, reliability and uptime.

The role features a 40-hour week, Monday–Friday with a 3-shift pattern and an on-call rota. You’ll access training and career development, with full PPE provided and a range of company benefits.

Qualifications

• Apprenticeship trained, HNC or time served Engineer; ideally multi-skilled or with electrical bias.
• Experience with maintenance systems and safe work practices.
• City & Guilds Electrical qualification preferred.
• IOSH safety knowledge is desirable with a safety-first focus.

Responsibilities

• Overall maintenance of the site including reactive and planned tasks.
• Fault finding and small improvement projects to minimise downtime.
• Support Engineering Manager to maintain health, safety and quality standards.
• Carry out PPM tasks in line with CMMS (Agility) and coordinate with Operators.

Skills

Multi-skilled engineer

Electrical bias

Maintenance systems

Welding/Fabrication

Education

Apprenticeship or HNC

City & Guilds Electrical qualification

Tools

Agility CMMS

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Maintenance Engineer

Location: Flixborough, UK

Shift: 40Hrs per week - Monday to Friday operating a 3-shift pattern. 6am – 2pm, 1pm -9pm, 8am- 4pm with an on-call rota for 1 in 5 covering evenings and weekends

Are you an engineer with experience in a heavy equipment, plant or FMCG environment? If so, join our team today!

You will join a small onsite team where we priortise the safety of our people and put you at the heart of what we do. Being part of this team not only gives you that family feel but you will also join our internal community of Engineers, giving you access to support on fault resolution and spare parts from within. If we can’t fix it no one can!

What You’ll be working on:

• Drag Chain Conveyors
• Screw conveyors
• Belt and bucket Elevators
• Mixing Equipment
• Weighing Equipment
• Boilers and steam plant
• Electrical Control Panels with Inverters and PLCs
• Compressed air and pneumatic equipment
• Hydraulic equipment

Responsibilities include:

• Overall maintenance of the site including both reactive and planned maintenance tasks, fault finding, and small improvement projects, minimising plant downtime
• Supporting the Engineering Manager to ensure health and safety, feed safety and Quality standards are never compromised.
• Ensure all work is risk assessed and carried out on safely isolated equipment.
• PPM tasks in accordance with the agreed schedule. In line with our CMMS - Agility
• Be proactive in cooperation with the Operators to agree equipment downtime and availability for maintenance tasks.
• Assist the Engineering Manager in ensuring that adequate spare parts are held in stock by keeping the stores area organised and reporting parts used and ordering from suppliers
• Contribute to continuous improvement by highlighting/identifying possible cost saving initiatives or process improvements
• Assist with Control of Contractors, Permits to Work etc.
• Desirable if experience but training can be provided
  • Confined Space
  • Welding/Fabrication Qualifications
  • 18th Edition
  • PASAM, FLT, BOAS

To be successful we are looking for the following knowledge, skills and experience:

• Apprenticeship trained, HNC (or equivalent) or time served Engineer – ideally multi-skilled Engineer or with an Electrical bias
• Experience of working with maintenance systems.
• City & Guilds Electrical qualification desired
• Good H&S knowledge in legislation and application (IOSH qualification, desirable) with a safety-first focus.
• Desirable if experience but training can be provided
  • Confined Space
  • Welding/Fabrication Qualifications
  • 18th Edition
  • PASAM, FLT, BOAS

In return you will get:

• Good shift pattern with overtime, call out available additional/potential earnings
• Training provided both internal and external courses
• Full PPE provided including clothing and boots
• Group benefits such as matched pension up to 10%, enhanced family and financial benefits, discount portals and more

Location

Our sites are rural with minimal public transport therefore ability to access site without the need for public transport will be required.

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.