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Were working with a large pan-European manufacturing business, which operates 7 days a week, that is actively seeking to add an experienced Multiskilled Maintenance Electrician to join its site Manufacturing Engineering Support teams.
Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrically bias)
40 hours per week - Monday to Friday based on Double Day shift 6am-2pm/1pm-9pm
Participation in weekend On Call Rota (approx 1 in 5).
Location: nr Chippenham, Wiltshire
Salary: £40,185 plus on call allowance (additional £3852 per year/£321 per month)
Other Benefits:
- Overtime paid at 1.33 (after 40 hours worked per week)
- 34 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Pension contributions (5% employee and 3% employer contributions)
- Pluxee Employee Discount scheme
- BHSF Healthcare cash back scheme
- Generous company sick pay scheme (after 1 years service)
- Cycle to work scheme (scheme rules)
- Death in service (after 1 years service)
- Significant birthday benefit (after 1 years service)
The position's responsibilities are:
- Reactive Maintenance on automated production machinery
- Pre-planned Maintenance (PPM) - Input to and carry out preventive maintenance routines
- Mechanical fault finding
- Electrical fault finding with and without diagrams (three phase and control systems)
- Small installation projects
- Continuous Improvement to maintain optimal machine efficiency
- To keep clean any areas in which you are working, including transit areas to and from the workshop, the workshop and stores
- Support the Operations team in achieving targets
- Complying to the companys Health and Safety policies and procedures
- Contributing to cost effective technical solutions
- Deliver to the operational expectations
- Be part of a weekend call-out rota
To be successful, we would like you to have:
- A recognised industrial Electrical qualification 18th Edition and Level 3 Electrical Engineering qualification (City & Guilds, NVQ or equivalent)
- Have experience working as a Shift Electrician or as a dedicated Electrical Engineer in a Manufacturing environment.
- Experience in the print, packaging or associated industries would be great but is not essential. But experience in a manufacturing or industrial automation environment is critical.
- Strong electrical fault-finding skill in particular on PLCs, drives and inverters
- Excellent fault finding and diagnostic skills
- Ability to read and interpret engineering diagrams
- Experience with maintenance PPM and RM programmes.
- Ideally experience working a buddy system with a Mechanical Engineer.
- Have good communication, organisational and team work skills.
- Self motivation, ability to apply initiative and determination.
Specific training where required will be provided, OEM suppliers and via remote modem diagnostic support from the OEM.
This is a great opportunity to join a leading manufacturer in a key electrical engineering role. Working on large scale machinery in a time-sensitive manufacturing environment.
Unfortunately, we are not able to provide sponsorship at this stage.
