Maintenance Technician

Schreiber Foods; Stonehouse; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food industry is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to ensure equipment reliability and safety standards. The ideal candidate will be multi-skilled in electrical and mechanical disciplines, capable of managing maintenance tasks and supporting a safe working environment. This role offers a chance to work in a dynamic environment with a focus on efficiency and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Experience with Planned Preventative Maintenance systems.
• Ability to interpret Mechanical and Electrical drawings.
• Demonstrated high voltage switching experience.

Responsibilities

• Carry out Planned Preventative maintenance on a full range of equipment.
• React to breakdowns and ensure high levels of equipment availability.
• Support management of contractors and critical spare parts inventory.

Skills

Fault finding on Siemens PLC

Maintenance and servicing of production facilities

Conveyor Maintenance

Electrical instrumentation

Mechanical skills

Organizational Awareness

Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills

Education

HNC or equivalent

Engineering Apprentice Trained

Job description

Job Category: Manufacturing/Operations Job Family: Maintenance Job Description:

Purpose of the role

• Put Health and safety best practices first in all work carried out ensuring compliance with all H&S standards and regulations
• Carry out Planned Preventative maintenance on a full range of equipment within the site
• React quickly to breakdowns, communicate clearly with affected parties, and work efficiently to fix the issue.
• Provide high levels of equipment availability.
• Support the wider Team
• Management of contractors.
• On-site support and responsibility for management and escalation of high-risk situations
• Control of contractors when required.
• Management of Critical spare parts inventory.
• General production support.
• Use basic IT/IS functions.
• Maintenance of electronic documents and databases and record accurate data on reports.
• Repairs to the building infrastructure.
• Creation of check and maintenance lists for new installations.
• Review, completion, and modification of construction plans (Management of Change) of the production facilities.
• Work with Leaders and fellow partners to ensure Food Safety and Partner Safety.
• Understand and execute standard operating procedures relative to position.
• Understand and follow all PCP and CCP checks.
• Follow reaction plan for Food Safety, Food Quality, and customer requirement outages, be able to identify and understand customer requirements and assist in assuring proper operation and product.

Experience Required

• Multi skilled in both Electrical(instrumentation) and mechanical with an electrical bias.
• Experience of Planned Preventative Maintenance systems.
• Fault finding on Siemens PLC and material handling Automated systems.
• Experience in interpreting both Mechanical and electrical drawings.
• Experience of Conveyor Maintenance, motor controllers/inverters
• Maintenance and servicing of production facilities.
• Experience of high voltage switching.
• Experience of sortation, conveyor machinery.
• Experience of fault finding on Building equipment i.e. HVAC, Dock levelers, Chillers, and general building maintenance.

Essential Requirements

• Engineering Apprentice Trained
• HNC or equivalent

Desirable Requirements

• Welding experience.
• Siemens PLC fault finding.
• Mechanical experience.
• Electro pneumatic.
• FMCG experience.
• Experience of working in the food industry.

Demonstratable Behavioral Competencies

• Organizational Awareness.
• Personal Drive
• Proactivity
• Working effectively with others.
• Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Willingness for further education (degree level).

Schreiber Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.