Shift Engineer

Hunter Selection | B Corp™; Sudbury CP; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; 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 | B Corp™ is seeking an electrically biased shift engineer for a leading UK manufacturing site. You will carry out preventative and reactive maintenance on high-speed production lines, packaging and automated machinery to keep downtime to a minimum.

You will fault find on PLCs (Siemens and Allen-Bradley) and SCADA systems, work from P&ID and electrical drawings, and contribute to continuous improvement projects and new machinery installations.

Qualifications

• Must be a multi-skilled engineer with an electrical bias and strong fault-finding abilities in a manufacturing setting.
• City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical is a minimum requirement.
• Must have completed a time-served apprenticeship and have relevant high-speed production experience (FMCG).

Responsibilities

• Carry out preventative and planned maintenance, both electrically & mechanically.
• Work on high-speed production, packaging and automated machinery.
• Deal 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

Electrical bias

PLC fault finding

SCADA fault finding

P&ID reading

Education

City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical

Time-served apprenticeship

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

SCADA systems

Electrical drawings

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 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

INDENM

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.