Shift Engineer

Hunter Selection; Acton; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Pension

Life Assurance

23 Shift Holidays

BUPA Healthcare Cashplan

Staff Benefits Card

Qualifications/Training

Car Tax Relief

Job summary

Hunter Selection seeks a Shift Engineer in the Sudbury area to perform preventative and corrective maintenance on high-speed packaging and automated systems. You will troubleshoot PLC/SCADA faults, service conveyors and pumps, and participate in new machinery installs and CI projects.

The role requires an electrically biased, multi-skilled engineer with a time-served apprenticeship and 5+ years in manufacturing, ideally in FMCG environments.

Qualifications

• Must be a multi-skilled engineer, electrically biased.
• City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical is a minimum requirement.
• Must have worked in high-speed production - food, FMCG manufacturing environments.
• Completed a time-served apprenticeship.
• Minimum 5 years' experience as an engineer in manufacturing.
• Beneficial to have City & Guilds 2391 Electrical Test & Inspection.
• PLC & SCADA Systems - electrical fault finding.
• Beneficial to have 17th or 18th Edition Electrical.
• Strong team player with a continuous improvement approach.
• A good level of mechanical skills - dealing with pipework, gearboxes, drives, pumps, etc.
• Able to follow P&ID, electrical & mechanical drawings.

Responsibilities

• Carry out both preventative and planned maintenance, both electrically & mechanically.
• Working on high-speed production, packaging and automated machinery.
• Dealing with conveyors, motors, gearboxes, sensors, electrical isolation, inverters, pneumatics, servo drives, control panels, pumps, compressors, steam & boiler systems.
• PLC - electrical fault finding on Siemens & Allen Bradley.
• SCADA Systems - electrical fault finding.
• Continuous improvement projects and new machinery installations and modification work.
• Be able to work mechanically on various pipework, fabrication & fault finding.

Skills

Multi-skilled engineer

Electrical bias

PLC fault finding

SCADA systems

Mechanical skills

Team player

Continuous improvement

P&ID drawings

Education

City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical

Time-served apprenticeship

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

Electrical test equipment

2391 Electrical Testing

Job description

Shift Engineer

Sudbury | £56,500 + Overtime

Benefits

• Private Pension
• Life Assurance
• 23 Shift Holidays
• BUPA Healthcare Cashplan
• Staff Benefits Card
• Qualifications/Training
• Car Tax Relief

Role & Responsibilities

• Carry out both preventative and planned maintenance, both electrically & mechanically
• Working on high-speed production, packaging and automated machinery
• Dealing with conveyors, motors, gearboxes, sensors, electrical isolation, inverters, pneumatics, servo drives, control panels, pumps, compressors, steam & boiler systems
• PLC - electrical fault finding on Siemens & Allen Bradley
• SCADA Systems - electrical fault finding
• Continuous improvement projects and new machinery installations and modification work
• Be able to work mechanically on various pipework, fabrication & fault finding

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Knowledge, Skills & Experience need to be a Shift Engineer:

• Must be a multi-skilled engineer, electrically biased
• City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical is a minimum requirement
• Must have worked in high-speed production - food, FMCG manufacturing environments
• Completed a time-served apprenticeship
• Minimum 5 years' experience as an engineer in manufacturing
• Beneficial to have City & Guilds 2391 Electrical Test & Inspection
• PLC & SCADA Systems - electrical fault finding
• Beneficial to have 17th or 18th Edition Electrical
• Strong team player with a continuous improvement approach
• A good level of mechanical skills - dealing with pipework, gearboxes, drives, pumps, etc
• Able to follow P&ID, electrical & mechanical drawings

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