Job Description
Maintenance Engineer £40,000 base, Accrington, Lancashire.
DAYS 37.5 hours a week.
Monday Thursday 7am 4pm
Friday 7am 12:45pm
Overtime available at X1.33, holiday equivalent to 24 shifts off, pension, Death in service.
The Opportunity
We are recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer to join the market leading manufacturer of furniture in the UK. This company supplies to the commercial industry, public sector, governmental frameworks and dealers across the country. You ll be implemented into a team of 7 Engineers in total. Conducting mainly PPM work, but also reactive maintenance across all machinery within this site. The company product around 5000 units per week. The site is open Monday to Friday, with some potential project work at weekends. Manufacturing stops at 4pm all weekdays, bar Friday where it stops at 1pm.
The Role
As a maintenance engineer, you ll work with a range of machinery including:
- CNC machines, saws, hedge banders, spraying equipment and robotics
- Sowing machines, steamers, boxing machines and conveyors throughout
Your focus will be 30% reactive and 70% PPM, using a tablet system for job tracking. The role places a strong emphasis on preventative 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 manufacturing environments
- 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 electrical NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, or equivalent qualification in engineering
- A proactive attitude and hard worker who can be flexible jumping between mechanical an electrical work, but also production machinery and the site
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 50 years, the site in Accrington is one out of five sites in the UK. Therefore, it offers strong job security. You will be joining a company that look after their engineer s future.
If you think you are the right maintenance engineer for this market leader, please press apply, call Sam on (phone number removed), or email your CV too (url removed)
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