Shift Engineer

Hunter Selection Limited; Sudbury; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Pension

Life Assurance

23 Shift Holidays

Healthcare Cashplan

Staff Benefits Card

Qualifications/Training

Car Tax Relief

Job summary

Hunter Selection Limited is seeking an electrically biased Shift Engineer for a leading manufacturing site. You will perform preventative and planned maintenance on electrical and mechanical systems across high-speed production lines and automated packaging equipment.

Key duties include fault finding on Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLCs, SCADA systems, and contributing to continuous improvement projects and new machinery installations.

Qualifications

• Must be a multi-skilled engineer with electrical bias.
• City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical is required.
• Experience in high-speed production environments (food/FMCG).
• Completed a time-served apprenticeship.
• Minimum 5 years as a manufacturing engineer.

Responsibilities

• Carry out preventative and planned maintenance on electrical and mechanical systems.
• Work on high-speed production, packaging, and automated machinery.
• Handle conveyors, motors, gearboxes, sensors, inverters, pumps, and boiler systems.
• Perform PLC/SCADA fault finding on Siemens & Allen-Bradley systems.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects and new machinery installations.

Skills

Electrical bias

Multi-skilled

Fault finding

PLC & SCADA

Continuous improvement

Education

City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical

Time-served apprenticeship

17th/18th Edition Electrical

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

Job description

Would you like to join a leading manufacturing business, part of a multi-million-pound group, that values itself on staff investment, training & development.

This site has a great culture, with brilliant staff retentions numbers, they are looking for an electrically biased maintenance engineer.

Benefits

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

Role & Responsibilities of a Shift Engineer

• 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

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 17

th or 18

th 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

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.