Maintenance Engineer

ATA Recruitment Ltd; Preston; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime pay (1.5x)

Holiday entitlement (22.5 shifts)

Pension

Death in service

Job summary

ATA Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Maintenance Engineer in Preston to maintain site machinery in a fast-paced FMCG environment. The role involves 37 hours per week with a daytime and shift pattern, and a base pay of £21.92 per hour.

You will perform PPMs and reactive maintenance on a range of brand-new lines, involving pneumatics, gearboxes, bearings, and PLC fault finding, with welding desirable for some tasks.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or City & Guilds in engineering.
• Experience in FMCG manufacturing environments.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced site with physical work.

Responsibilities

• Conduct planned preventive maintenance and reactive maintenance across site machinery.
• Fault finding via PLC and component troubleshooting.
• Work with brand-new machinery including slicers, choppers, conveyors, sealing, thermoforming, metal detectors and labeling machines.

Skills

FMCG maintenance experience

Mechanical & electrical knowledge

PLC fault finding

Welding (desirable)

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Engineering

City & Guilds in Engineering

Tools

PLC hardware familiarity

Job description

Maintenance Engineer £21.92 an hour, Preston, Lancashire.
DAYS – 37 hours a week.
Wednesday 6am – 3:30pm
Thursday 6am – 6:30pm
Friday 6am – 6:30pm
Saturday 6am – 12:30pm

Overtime available at X1.5, holiday equivalent to 22.5 shifts off, pension, Death in service.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for aMaintenance Engineer to join one of the leading meat processing companies in the UK. This business is part of a larger group, so it has major backing to support its success. It supplies to all major retailers across the country. You'll be implemented into a team of 10 Engineers in total. Conducting PPMs and reactive maintenance across all site machinery. The site is fast paced, depending on demand. The company process over 1 million cattle and 3.5 million lamb per annum. The site is open 24/7 but production is from 5am to 6:30pm.

The Role

As amaintenance engineer, you'll work with a range of brand-new machinery including:

• Slicers, choppers, conveyors and sealing machines
• Thermoforming machines, metal detectors and labelling machines

Your focus will be75% reactiveand25% PPM, using a tablet system for job tracking. The role places a strong emphasis on maintenance and repair. You'll need to be working with pneumatics, gearboxes, bearings, shafts, chains, sensors, and control panels etc. Fault finding via PLC is essential. Any welding experience is highly desirable.

The Person We’re Looking For

To succeed in this role as amaintenance engineer, you'll need:

• A strong background in maintenance within FMCG manufacturing environments and used to physical work
• Experience and competent working on both mechanical and electrical components whilst abiding to H&S regulations.
• Confidence with strip-downs, rebuilds, and reactive maintenance
• An NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, or equivalent qualification in engineering
• A proactive attitude and hard worker who can deal with a fast-paced production environment

This is an ideal role for amaintenance engineerwho wants to develop their skills in a stable, well-backed facility with real training opportunities.

ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation