At a Glance
- Tasks: Perform hands-on maintenance and fault finding on automated production machinery.
- Company: Join a rapidly growing snack food manufacturer with modern technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus, generous holiday, pension, and free snacks.
- Other info: Exciting opportunities for career growth and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact while developing your technical skills in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: NVQ Level 3 Electrical and 2 years' experience in automated manufacturing.
The predicted salary is between 44100 - 53900 £ per year.
Are you a hands-on Maintenance Engineer looking to join a modern, highly automated manufacturing site where you can develop your skills and make a real impact? We’re working with a well-established and rapidly growing snack food manufacturer supplying major supermarkets. The business has invested heavily in high-end production equipment and is now looking to strengthen its engineering team with a skilled Maintenance Engineer.
The Opportunity
This is a genuinely hands-on, multi-skilled engineering role working across a wide range of modern production and packaging machinery. A significant part of the role will involve fault finding and resolving process-related issues, as well as planned and reactive maintenance.
What You'll Be Doing
- Carrying out reactive and planned maintenance across the site.
- Fault finding on automated production and packaging equipment.
- Working on mixers, sealers, ovens, bagging machines and flow wrappers.
- Maintaining robotic cutters, labellers, X-ray equipment and conveyors.
- Working on cartonning and other automated packaging machinery.
- Diagnosing electrical faults involving sensors, relays, contactors, servo systems, three-phase motors, AC equipment, power supplies and inverters.
- Carrying out mechanical maintenance including bearings, gearboxes, shafts, rollers, belts, pneumatics, pulleys and chains.
- Using a multimeter and electrical test equipment to diagnose faults.
- Fault finding on Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLC-controlled equipment, primarily through I/O checks.
- Completing PPMs and contributing to ongoing improvements across the plant.
What We're Looking For
The ideal candidate will have:
- NVQ Level 3 Electrical or equivalent.
- At least 2 years' experience within an automated manufacturing environment.
- Strong electrical and mechanical fault-finding ability.
- Experience fault finding on automated machinery.
- Strong communication skills.
- A proactive approach and willingness to continue developing your technical skills.
What's on Offer?
- £48,000–£50,000 basic salary
- 8% annual bonus
- 4 on / 4 off days shift pattern
- 12-hour shifts
- 25 days' holiday + 8 bank holidays
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Overtime paid through time off in lieu
- Free snacks on site
- Genuine opportunities to develop technically and progress within the engineering function
Why Join?
The business has made substantial investment in modern production technology and is entering an exciting phase of developing its engineering culture around reliability, continuous improvement and technical development. If you're a Maintenance Engineer who enjoys fault finding, working on automated equipment and wants to join a business that will invest in your development, this could be an excellent opportunity.
ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
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