Maintenance Engineer
Bridgwater
£40,000 - £45,000 + Bonus + Overtime + Excellent Benefits
Monday to Friday - Double Days
No Nights + Early Finish Every Friday
Are you a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer looking to move away from nights and 12-hour continental shifts?
This is an excellent opportunity to join an established and growing manufacturing business in Bridgwater, offering a Monday-to-Friday double-day shift, no nights and an early finish every Friday.
The business is continuing to invest across its manufacturing operation, with a strong programme of equipment upgrades and engineering projects planned over the next couple of years. You'll join an experienced engineering team in a varied role covering electrical and mechanical maintenance, automation, installations, improvements and project work.
The Role
- Reactive and planned maintenance across a busy manufacturing environment.
- Electrical and mechanical fault finding across production and automated equipment.
- Fault finding within electrical control panels across single and three-phase systems.
- Working with motors, drives, servos, contactors, relays, sensors and machine safety systems.
- Basic PLC fault finding and diagnostics, including I/O checks and identifying machine faults.
- Mechanical maintenance including bearings, gearboxes, shafts, drive systems, pneumatics and hydraulics.
- Supporting electrical installations, facilities maintenance and equipment modifications.
- Involvement with new equipment installations and upcoming engineering projects.
- Working as part of an experienced on-site engineering team while being confident managing breakdowns independently when required.
The Person
- Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer with a strong electrical bias and good mechanical capability.
- Previous maintenance experience within manufacturing, production or a similar industrial environment.
- Confident electrical fault finding within control panels.
- Comfortable independently fault finding across both electrical and mechanical systems.
- Good practical understanding of single and three-phase electrical systems.
- Basic PLC diagnostic experience would be beneficial, but programming experience is not required.
- 17th or 18th Edition would be advantageous but is not essential.
- Experience with installations, automation or engineering projects would be beneficial.
Shift
Weekly rotating Monday-to-Friday double days with no nights:
Earlies: 6:00am-2:00pm Monday to Thursday / 6:00am-1:00pm Friday.
Lates: 2:00pm-10:00pm Monday to Thursday / 1:00pm-8:00pm Friday.
Both rotations offer an early finish every Friday.
Package
- £40,000 - £45,000 salary.
- Annual bonus of up to 4% of salary.
- Overtime available at x1.5 rate
- 33 days' holiday including Bank Holidays.
- Buy and sell annual leave scheme.
- 4% employer pension contribution.
- Life assurance at 4x annual salary.
- Income protection.
- Medical benefits for you and your family.
- Employee Assistance Programme including counselling.
- Subsidised canteen.
- Employee discounts and recognition schemes.
- Wellbeing checks and Mental Health First Aiders on site.
- Free eye tests.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- Uniform provided.
- Paid flu vaccination.
- Long-service and recognition awards.
Why Apply?
This is a strong opportunity for an electrically biased Maintenance Engineer who wants to retain a competitive manufacturing salary while moving away from nights and 12-hour shifts.
Alongside the Monday-to-Friday working pattern and early Friday finishes, you'll benefit from a varied engineering role and the opportunity to get involved in installations, improvements and new engineering projects as the business continues to invest in its site.
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