Maintenance Engineers in Leyland

Responsibilities

• Uphold high standards in Health and Safety, Food Safety, and GMP, to ensure a safe, secure, and compliant work environment.
• Be part of a dedicated Engineering Maintenance team that plays a key role in ensuring the smooth running of all machinery in the production areas.
• Providing a proactive and reactive professional engineering service, to maintain and improve the performance of the plant.
• Completing Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) tasks,
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing and correcting equipment issues,
• Assist with root cause analysis to promote future reliability and improvements.
• Proactive involvement in Continuous Improvement initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Educated to HNC, (or HND or degree Level) or equivalent and apprenticeship time-served Engineer.
• At least 2 years of post-apprenticeship engineering maintenance experience – ideally served within an FMCG hygienic production environment.
• Technologically savvy to enable full use of the CMMS systems, MS Office etc.

Additional Skills & Attributes

• Apply an analytical and systematic approach to working, with a desire to identify root causes and solve problems.
• Work within a rapidly changing environment and remain calm under pressure.
• Make timely decisions and have a drive for improvement.
• Communicate in a respectful and professional manner.
• Work as part of a team, and on your own – using your own initiative.
• Demonstrate excellent planning, organisational skills and good time management.
• Demonstrate a reasonable amount of flexibility to meet the needs of the company.

This vacancy is for a permenant nights role working 12 hour-shifts on a 4-5-5 block pattern. The 4-5-5 cycle repeats every 8 weeks; 4 on, 5 off, 5 on, 4 off, 5 on, 5 off etc. This schedule provides an improvement on the traditional 4 on – 4 off pattern with 2 weekends off in every 4 weeks – and every weekend-off is a long weekend! This enhances your work-life balance and allows more quality time with family and friends, hobbies, and personal pursuits.

Compensation

• Salary range: The salary starts from £58,396.32 – £60,829.50 (£29.01 – £30.22 per hour). Starting salary is dependent upon qualifications, skills, and experience. Overtime is paid at x1.5 the hourly rate.
• 23.5 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays) which increases with service.

Benefits

• Free Life Assurance at 4 times basic annual salary.
• A skills-based development programme – allowing you to develop skills and your pay.
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay.
• Enhanced Pension scheme which provides 6% Employer pension contribution.
• Private medical insurance.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Leave.
• Free pizzas.
• Subsidised on site restaurant with hot and cold meals, a salad/deli bar, snack machines and microwaves and storage facilities for those who prefer to bring their own.
• Free tea, coffee, and fresh fruit.
• Free on-site parking (with a number of Electric Vehicle charging points available)
• Free Wi-Fi in restaurant.
• Employee Referral Scheme £350 – once you know how great it is to work here, you\’ll want to bring your friends and family!
• Regular Employee Forums ensuring all employees have a voice.
• Incentivised employee suggestion and recognition schemes.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Free health checks.