Maintenance Engineer

Contek Recruitment Solutions Ltd; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A large organisation is seeking a permanent Maintenance Engineer to provide effective engineering and maintenance support to their manufacturing function. The successful applicant will ensure quality maintenance activities and support operational uptime. Ideal candidates will have experience with high-speed production equipment and relevant qualifications. The role offers competitive benefits including a pension scheme and healthcare.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Healthcare

Qualifications

• Experience with high-speed production equipment is essential.
• Desirable experience with plastics moulding/extrusion.
• Ability to adopt preventative maintenance programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide breakdown support for shift production teams.
• Maintain asset reliability through effective engineering.
• Ensure safe working practices and compliance with policies.

Skills

Experience of maintenance engineering

Root cause analysis

Health & Safety compliance

Communication skills

Education

Formal engineering qualification at level 3 or above

17th Edition training

Tools

MEWP licence

FLT licence

PLC fault diagnosis/programming

Job description

Overview

DAYS - 8am - 8pm - 3 ON 3 OFF SHIFT PATTERN.

Our client, a large organisation, are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer on a permanent basis. This role will be responsible for providing an effective engineering and maintenance support to the manufacturing function. Successful applicants will take responsibility for the quality and effectiveness of maintenance engineering activities and will carry out planned and preventative maintenance of plant and equipment within the production areas to optimise plant availability.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring that safe working practices are used at all times;
• Providing engineering breakdown support for the shift production teams ensuring operational downtime is kept to a minimum;
• Adopting root cause analysis tools to support one-time fix solutions for repeat failures;
• Ensuring assets are fit for use and in line with Health & Safety policies and procedures;
• Assisting as part of the maintenance team in identifying cost saving opportunities through energy, maintenance & material streams;
• Ensuring that the maintenance paperwork is kept up to date for all site works;
• Support in developing preventative maintenance programs and improvements to support asset reliability;
• Ensuring clear and effective communications with internal customer group, manufacturers, key service providers and engineering team colleagues.

The ideal candidate will

• Have experience of maintenance engineering within an environment of high-speed production equipment;
• Hold a formal engineering qualification at level 3 or above in either an electrical or mechanical discipline, or equivalent qualification;
• Current or previous licence holder for MEWP/ FLT;
• Experience with plastics moulding/extrusion is desirable for this role, as are PLC experience in fault diagnosis/programming and completion of 17th Edition training.

Benefits

Great opportunity to join a really successful business with great benefits. Pension scheme, Life assurance, healthcare to name a few.