Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer £21.92 an hour, Preston, Lancashire.
DAYS – 37 hours a week.
Wednesday 6am – 3:30pm
Thursday 6am – 6:30pm
Friday 6am – 6:30pm
Saturday 6am – 12:30pm

Overtime available at X1.5, holiday equivalent to 22.5 shifts off, pension, Death in service.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer to join one of the leading meat processing companies in the UK. This business is part of a larger group, so it has major backing to support its success. It supplies to all major retailers across the country. You'll be implemented into a team of 10 Engineers in total. Conducting PPMs and reactive maintenance across all site machinery. The site is fast paced, depending on demand. The company process over 1 million cattle and 3.5 million lamb per annum. The site is open 24/7 but production is from 5am to 6:30pm.

The Role

As a maintenance engineer, you'll work with a range of brand-new machinery including:

• Slicers, choppers, conveyors and sealing machines
• Thermoforming machines, metal detectors and labelling machines

Your focus will be 75% reactive and 25% PPM, using a tablet system for job tracking. The role places a strong emphasis on maintenance and repair. You'll need to be working with pneumatics, gearboxes, bearings, shafts, chains, sensors, and control panels etc. Fault finding via PLC is essential. Any welding experience is highly desirable.

The Person We're Looking For

To succeed in this role as a maintenance engineer, you'll need:

• A strong background in maintenance within FMCG manufacturing environments and used to physical work
• Experience and competent working on both mechanical and electrical components whilst abiding to H&S regulations.
• Confidence with strip-downs, rebuilds, and reactive maintenance
• An NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, or equivalent qualification in engineering
• A proactive attitude and hard worker who can deal with a fast-paced production environment

This is an ideal role for a maintenance engineer who wants to develop their skills in a stable, well-backed facility with real training opportunities.

Why apply?

Joining our client, you will be joining a business that place emphasis on training, development of their engineers. The company has been established for over 50 years, the site in Preston is one out of thirteen in the UK; however, it is one of the most profit contributors. Therefore, it offers strong job security. You will be joining a company that look after their engineer's future.

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