£44K/yr
Erewash, England
Permanent, Variable

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Posted by Ruth Wagstaff Recruitment.

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer with Electrical Bias – 4 days on, 4 days off

If you are an electrically biased maintenance engineer, seeking a days based role (no nights!) with a long established, stable company, this could be the role for you. This role is for a multi skilled, qualified Maintenance Engineer to join a friendly, well known food manufacturer in Ilkeston.

You will be working closely with the production team to ensure that food production and packaging machinery downtime is kept to a minimum. You will have a pro-active attitude and approach, identifying and recommending areas of improvement to achieve the necessary continuity and efficiency of production.

Shifts:

  • 4 days on, 4 days off
  • Working 6 am – 6 pm

Benefits:

  • Salary up to £44,000
  • Pension up to 6% employer contribution
  • 20 days holiday
  • Life Cover, Healthcare Cash Plan, 24/7 Counselling Hotline, Cycle 2 Work Scheme, Staff Shop, Retail Discount Scheme

Key responsibilities of Maintenance Engineer:

  • Ensure high quality production output is achieved through effective maintenance.
  • Fault finding and breakdown repairs of equipment and site services.
  • Effective PPM and reactive maintenance
  • Contributing to CI and capital projects
  • Complete documentation accurately
  • Support and coach colleagues in shared maintenance aspects
  • Ensure compliance with statutory requirements including all Health and Safety issues, policies and codes of practice.

Experience and skills required of a Maintenance Engineer:

  • Qualified maintenance engineer to Level 3 or ideally HNC level
  • Ideally apprenticeship trained
  • Electrically biased, knowledge of PLC systems
  • Experience of maintenance engineering within a food, packaging, or high-volume manufacturing.
  • Confident to work on own when required.
  • Proactive attitude to solving issues and supporting production.
  • Ability to carry out all types of engineering maintenance including electrical, mechanical, pneumatics, hydraulics, steam systems, robotics, inverters.

To apply

If you are an experienced maintenance engineer looking for a new challenge at a great company please apply by sending your CV, or if you need further information please contact Louise Wilson on or at

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