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Title: Shift Engineer
Salary Job: Up to £40K
Location: Featherstone
Hours: Monday to Friday rotating 6-2/2-10
The Recruitment Group is working with a market leading co-packer, with over 30 years of experience, they provide cost-effective and innovative co-packing and co-manufacturing solutions.
Purpose of the Shift Engineer:
- The shift engineer will provide essential engineering expertise to support Operations in reducing and eliminating downtime. This role involves both proactive and reactive maintenance.
- Main duties and responsibilities of the Shift Engineer:
- Conduct routine inspections and preventative maintenance on production equipment.
- Identifying and resolving any potential issues before they cause failures.
- Respond rapidly to machinery breakdowns, diagnose the problems and perform repairs or report back to engineering team leader if external specialists are required.
- Carry out machine adjustments, Size changes, machine settings when mods are made. This is to help support the production function.
- Monitor and Calibrate equipment to ensure accuracy, quality, and safe standards are met.
- Keep accurate records of maintenance i.e. PPM schedules, Shift Reporting etc.
- Adhere to health & safety guidelines and ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
- May from time to get involved with project work to get equipment back up to standard which would assist in helping production performance figures.
- Familiar with maintaining packing equipment would be an advantage
Experience/knowledge requirements for the Shift Engineer:
- Strong knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems within the FMCG industry
- NVQ level 2 qualifications or equivalent ONC Mechanical/Electrical, BTEC Level 3 in Mechanical & Electrical/Electronic Engineering
- Proficient in troubleshooting and repairing industrial machinery including baggers, multi-heads, conveyors and packaging equipment
- 17th edition wiring regulation regulations would be advantageous
- Experience of pneumatics, horizontal flow packers, vertical form fill baggers, carton erectors, multi-Heads, Gluing systems, Metal detectors/check weighers, X-ray, Various bespoke hand packing/labelling lines some with printers.
Please call Emma at The Recruitment Group to find out more about this position.
