Shift Engineer - Bridgwater

ALPLA INC.; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join ALPLA as a Maintenance Engineer, where you will maximize the uptime of blow moulding machines and associated production machinery. The role involves providing planned and repair maintenance, ensuring compliance with company procedures and health & safety requirements. Applicants should possess transferable manufacturing experience and a minimum of NVQ Level 3 qualifications.

Benefits

Generous pension contributions

Life Assurance

Employee Christmas vouchers

PerkBox – High Street brand discounts

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Experience in Plastics, Packaging, FMCG, Food, Beverage, or Pharma.
• Multi-skilled background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure machinery operates efficiently for continuous production.
• Carry out repairs as part of preventive maintenance.
• Complete maintenance logs and paperwork.

Skills

Transferable manufacturing experience

Multi Skilled experience

Education

Minimum NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Job description

Join our Family Of Pioneers as a Maintenance Engineer…

To ensure all blow moulding machines (Extrusion, Injection and/or Stretch blow moulding), associated production machinery uptime is maximised in line with Company maintenance procedures and in compliance with both production and health & safety requirements.

Additionally, you will be expected to provide planned and repair maintenance to all plant and works services, within the scope of your training.

Tasks & responsibilities:

• Ensure that all equipment, machinery and peripherals operate efficiently and at full capability, ensuring a continuous production process.
• Carry out repairs on machines as part of breakdown or preventative maintenance.
• Ensure that all relevant paperwork and maintenance logs are completed correctly and accurately in accordance with company procedure.
• Ensure that all duties are carried out in accordance with quality, hygiene and food safety policies.
• To perform any other duties in connection with the job that may from time to time be reasonably required by supervision and which are consistent with the “Purpose of job/mission”.

What makes you great

Experience Required:

• Transferable manufacturing experience is essential (Plastics, Packaging, FMCG, Food, Beverage, Pharma etc)
• Minimum NVQ Level 3 quals or equivalent
• Multi Skilled experience preferred

What you can expect working with us

Maintenance Engineer

Benefits package: Generous pension contributions, Life Assurance, Employee Christmas vouchers, PerkBox – High Street brand discounts, Long service awards

About us

Our identity is shaped by fairness and honesty, partnerships and respectful actions. At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world.

Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue-chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 45 countries.

Unit 9 Stonecross Business Park, Yew Tree Way