At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain production equipment and ensure efficient engineering activities in a fast-paced environment.
- Company: Established manufacturing business with a focus on engineering investment and stability.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, private healthcare, pension contributions, and ongoing training opportunities.
- Other info: Rotating shifts with excellent career growth and professional development prospects.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact on production reliability and safety.
- Qualifications: Apprentice-trained Multi-Skilled Engineer with electrical bias and relevant qualifications.
The predicted salary is between 39600 - 48400 £ per year.
Location: Kettering
Package: Salary: £55,000+ per annum, plus 10% night shift allowance
Working Hours: 40 hours per week Monday to Friday rotating shifts: Early, Day, Late, Night. Late shift includes on-call cover from Friday evening through to Monday morning on a rotational basis.
Holiday: 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Benefits:
- Company pension with employer-matched contributions
- Private healthcare cash plan
- Employee discounts platform
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
The Opportunity: We are recruiting for an experienced Multi-Skilled Shift Engineer with a strong electrical bias to join a busy manufacturing site. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining production equipment, improving reliability, supporting continuous improvement initiatives, and ensuring all engineering activities are completed safely and efficiently. This position would suit an apprentice-trained engineer with experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ideally within food, FMCG or another highly regulated industry.
Key Responsibilities:
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance across production equipment.
- Diagnose and rectify electrical and mechanical faults to minimise downtime.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records using the site's Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
- Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.
- Support production teams to maximise equipment availability and efficiency.
- Review contractor risk assessments and method statements (RAMS) where required and issue permits to work.
- Ensure all maintenance activities comply with company safe systems of work, risk assessments and health & safety procedures.
- Complete dynamic risk assessments where necessary.
- Ensure maintenance documentation, operating manuals and technical information remain up to date and accessible.
- Maintain engineering workshops and plant areas to high housekeeping standards.
Key Objectives:
- Maintain an excellent health and safety record.
- Deliver preventative maintenance schedules on time.
- Reduce equipment downtime and increase plant reliability.
- Support production to achieve operational targets.
- Promote a strong food safety and quality culture.
- Contribute towards continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Achieve engineering KPIs relating to reliability, response times and maintenance completion.
Skills & Technical Experience:
Essential:
- Apprentice-trained Multi-Skilled Engineer with an electrical bias.
- Experience fault finding on PLC-controlled (Allen Bradley) machinery, HMIs and automated production equipment.
- Knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance techniques.
- Experience using CMMS maintenance systems.
- Strong electrical and mechanical fault-finding ability.
- Excellent understanding of health and safety within a manufacturing environment.
Qualifications:
Essential:
- Recognised Engineering Apprenticeship.
- Level 3 qualification (City & Guilds or NVQ) in Electrical, Mechanical or Multi-Skilled Engineering.
Desirable:
- HNC or HND in Engineering.
- 18th Edition Electrical Regulations.
- IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH qualification.
- CompEx certification.
Shift Pattern: Average 37.5 - 40 hours per week on a rotating shift pattern: 06:00 - 08:00, 14:00 - 22:00 (Sunday - Thursday nights). On-call cover operates on a rotating basis, approximately one weekend in four.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established manufacturing business offering long-term stability, investment in engineering, and opportunities for professional development.
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