Electrical Maintenance Engineer in Braintree

Location: Braintree

Salary: £38,300

Working Hours: Mon to Fri 8.30am to 4.30pm + Overtime opportunities

Company Benefits: Generous holiday allowance, Contributory pension scheme with life assurance, Employee share scheme, Employee shopping savings portal, Payment of Professional Fees

Overview: First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic refrigeration business who are looking to recruit an Electrically Biased Maintenance Engineer to support the upkeep and maintenance of their internal factory plant equipment. This is a permanent position located at their depot in Braintree.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Carry out work assignments issued and maximise effectiveness of the shift at all times by ensuring efficient completion of tasks.
• Demonstrate a team approach with regard to maintenance and hygiene of equipment and support (teams of) Logistics.
• Provide support to the team during breaks and absences and work together to ensure completion of their duties.
• Follow all work instructions, procedures, job descriptions at all times.
• Ensure that all Work Orders, PM's issued to the shift are completed.
• Complete and check all necessary paperwork.
• Work with other functions as part of the manufacturing team to ensure efficient running of the site and carry out prioritised work as agreed.
• Carry out the assigned activities to meet operational targets; working with other functions to ensure mutual objectives are met.
• Compliance with Company policies, procedures and regulations (e.g. attendance, quality, safety, GMP's, etc.) and ensure these are followed to maintain the required standards (e.g. Food Safety, PPE etc.).
• Resolve mechanical and/or electrical problems in a timely fashion.
• Order spare parts as required on shift if unavailable from stock and contact contractors/suppliers as required in order to resolve problems on shift.
• Ensure all parts removed from stores while on shift are booked out of stores in the correct way.
• Where necessary, must initiate the purchase of parts or equipment completing the relevant order requisition forms with relevant information.
• Provide the Engineering manager with information on all engineering downtime attended on shift, related quality issue, work orders completed, PM's completed and other details as required.
• Identify and analyse problems before crises and determine appropriate action and follow up.
• Ensure remedial works on site is raised by work order or PM's are highlighted to the Manager.
• Work closely with Logistics teams.
• Work under supervision of engineering managers.
• Ensure that handovers are smooth and efficient whilst sharing relevant information with other engineers.
• Request/give information from/to the engineering manager.
• Capable of instructing un-skilled/semi-skilled people in simple operations of equipment.
• Use of power tools, drills, grinders, cutting equipment, saws, files, presses.
• Use of ladders, steps, walkways.
• May have to work with hot/cold equipment using suitable safe systems of work and/or PPE.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Previous manufacturing / processing / warehouse / cold-store industry experience.
• Electrical bias, electrical qualifications / time served apprenticeship.
• 4 years experience.
• A good standard of both written and oral English.
• Basic Health & Safety.
• Data and analytical skills.
• Computer literate (Word/Excel/Windows based packages).

Desirable skills:

• PLC knowledge.
• Working on hydraulic systems.
• Working on temperature control systems.
• Working with instrumentation systems.
• Welding experience.
• FLT/MEWP license.