Job Ref: 212757843

Date: 2020-11-16 14:20:46

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Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Full-Time/Permanent)
Alecto Recruitment is currently working with a food manufacturing business based near Buckingham. Our client has a wide portfolio of foods ranging from herbs and spices to pulses, grains, nuts, canned products, pickles, chutneys, poppadoms, and they also mill their own gram flour. An integral part of an international company spanning continents, our client has more than 50 years' experience in supplying the ingredients required for flavoursome and healthy meals. They supply most major UK supermarkets, both under private and own label categories.

Our client's continuous investment in development and business expansion has opened up an excellent opportunity for an experienced and driven Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join the established team in Buckingham.

Duties:

Performing multi-skilled activities on machinery and equipment between electrical, electronic, mechanical and refurbishment work including breakdown, planned preventative maintenance and fault diagnosis.
Ensuring that all work carried out, is in line with current Codes of Practice and you will take ownership of specific improvement jobs and projects, seeing them through to successful completion.
Providing effective and efficient support to the manufacturing functions and assist in achieving maximum production efficiency levels with minimum machine downtime
Undertaking fault finding analysis, identifying root causes of plant or equipment breakdowns, and resolving the problem as swiftly as possible
Participate in projects at all stages of implementation through to commissioning including pre-delivery inspections & installation of new plant for area of responsibility.
Keeping up-to-date and complying with food hygiene, health and safety standards and quality management systems
Advising the management on continuous improvement measures to add value to the business.
Undertaking any other maintenance, engineering or other related work duties assigned to you by the Management
The hours of work are 40 per week (Monday to Friday, with occasional weekends), and it will involve working alternating shifts between 6:00am and 11:00pm (i.e. 6:30am to 2:30pm, 8:30am to 4:30pm, 2:30pm to 10:30pm).Who we're looking for:

The successful candidates will have served a City and Guilds 3 year engineering apprenticeship, along with holding a 17th or 18th Edition electrical qualification.

You must be comfortable with single and three phase systems, motors, inverters, safety circuits and electrical schematics. Ideally, you will have experience in packing, blending, mixing and process machinery. PLC knowledge and knowledge on steam boiler operation would be advantageous. You must be proficient in MS Office. Experience in the food industry would be an advantage but is not essential.

What's in it for you?

A competitive package with some fabulous employee rewards
The ability to work at the hub of an established international and fast-growing company with great opportunities for personal development
A work environment where we value individual initiatives
Continuous development and improvement, and always together as a teamJob Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £36,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Casual dress
On-site parking
Sick paySchedule:

10 hour shift
8 hour shift
Monday to FridayExperience:

Maintenance Engineer: 1 year (Preferred)Work remotely:

No

To apply for this role and find out more details, please forward your CV to James Feeley, Alecto Recruitment. in strict confidence.

Alecto Recruitment Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

If your experience matches please forward your CV immediately.

We thank all applicants who respond, but only those short listed will be contacted.

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