£45K/yr to £47K/yr
Cambridge, England
Permanent, Variable

Maintenance Engineer

Posted by Hunter Selection Limited.

Maintenance Engineer
Cambridge

Monday-Friday 7am-5pm + 1 in 4 Week Call Out Rota

£47,000 + Overtime

Our client is a leading food manufacturer that is part of a larger European Group. Due to an up and coming retirement within the engineering function, they are looking for a new multi-skilled maintenance engineer to join their close knit team.

Role & Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for supporting PPM's and reactive maintenance across all site production & packaging machinery, site services & facilities
  • Electrical & mechanical fault finding, problem solving and repairs
  • New machinery installations, project work
  • PLC - electrical fault finding
  • Worked on conveyors, mixers, baggers, production lines, packaging machinery, elevators, metal detectors, stitchers, labellers, scanners
  • Fixing motors, gearboxes, bearings, pneumatics, chains, sprockets, control panels, sensors, safety circuits, pumps, blowers, hydraulics

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

  • Ideally be a multi-skilled engineer
  • Must be comfortable working in a small team, flexible to working a call out rota
  • Have completed a time-served-apprenticeship
  • Strong electrical & mechanical fault finding skills
  • Must have previously have worked in fast-paced manufacturing, ideally food / FMCG
  • PLC - electrical fault finding
  • Mechanical fabrication, fitting, and welding skills would be beneficial
  • Projects and continuous improvement experience
  • Must have worked with pneumatics & hydraulics
  • Ideally have a varied career, comfortable working at heights and in confined spaces
  • 17th or 18th Edition
  • Able to work unsupervised

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Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

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.