Overview
Electrical Shift Maintenance Engineer Salary: £48,048.00 per annum 4 on/4 off (days & nights) – 12 hours (6am – 6pm/6pm – 6am) Overtime paid at 1.5 times A Quick Look at the Role In this role you will be responsible for primarily electrical maintenance inspections and routine repairs within all areas of the site to ensure utmost reliability and safety whilst reducing downtime events on critical assets. Working as part of a small team means flexibility is a must along with willingness to perform tasks outside of the role description. Your Core Responsibilities: Diagnosis of running faults and ensuring effective repairs and improvements are conducted within minimum time scale Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance practices Carrying out plant upgrades and modifications to the required standards Reporting through computerised maintenance management system all work carried out Develop
Full job description
Full Job Description
Electrical Shift Maintenance Engineer
Salary: £48,048.00 per annum
4 on/4 off (days & nights) – 12 hours (6am – 6pm/6pm – 6am)
Overtime paid at 1.5 times
A Quick Look at the Role
In this role you will be responsible for primarily electrical maintenance inspections and routine repairs within all areas of the site to ensure utmost reliability and safety whilst reducing downtime events on critical assets. Working as part of a small team means flexibility is a must along with willingness to perform tasks outside of the role description.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Diagnosis of running faults and ensuring effective repairs and improvements are conducted within minimum time scale
- Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance practices
- Carrying out plant upgrades and modifications to the required standards
- Reporting through computerised maintenance management system all work carried out
- Development and implementation of the programme of planned preventative maintenance and inspection to minimise downtime, provide records of recurrent faulting and engineered solutions to these issues
- Anticipate machine failures and make such changes or recommendations to prevent reoccurrence to reduce downtime to a minimum
- Ensuring SHEQ standards are strictly maintained, and all related documentation is completed
- Drive a culture / mind-set together with the management team that builds employee motivation and commitment and develop a contract team capable of overreaching the contract targets
- Assist the maintenance department in identifying annual lifecycle requirements, preparation of capital applications and business case papers for non-lifecycle capital purchases
- A proactive approach to fault finding and continuous improvement initiatives
Our Essential Requirements:
- Experience dealing with planned & reactive maintenance on conveyors, magnet belts, eddy current separators in enclosed/restricted spaces & working on overhead cranes (Working at Height).
- Recognised Apprenticeship, Electrical bias Multi Skilled Engineer with relevant qualifications ONC/BTEC NVQ 3 discipline level (Elec Bias)
- BS7671 18th Edition Wiring Regulation Qualifications
- Experience working on single and 3-phase AC and DC systems
- Waste Processing equipment knowledge preferable
- IT literate – comfortable using business software and systems
- Experience of FMCG type environment
What do we offer you?
- A competitive salary
- Enhanced employer contribution pension plan
- 23 days’ annual leave entitlement including statutory holidays
- Numerous opportunities for career development, we have a history of promoting from within
- Access to our wellbeing and reward platform from Day 1
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