Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Birmingham
2 weeks ago
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Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Birmingham

Monday - Friday - Days

Salary - £40,000

Benefits

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
Pension - 5% Employee, 5% Employer
Life Assurance Scheme
Long Service Days - additional holiday entitlement
Long Service Awards
Access to business owned gym and personal trainer sessionsAn excellent opportunity has arisen for an Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join this successful, international family-run business. This business pride themselves in having strong values in listening to their customers and providing top quality products within the industry.

The ideal candidate will come from a food, FMCG or pharmaceutical manufacturing background with experience working within a similar engineering role, trained multi-skilled with an electrical bias,

Role Description

You will be looking after planned maintenance, breakdowns & changeovers on key production equipment. As well as supporting the Leadership team by leading & participating in improvements for reliability and production capacity utilising continuous improvement techniques.
Ensure all engineering activities completed, meeting Health & Safety standards
Maintain production equipment with a proactive approach to provide robust repairs to prevent future losses to uptime
Responsible for implementing the planned maintenance schedule, with a continuous improvement focus
Working with the Leadership team, manage KPIs & develop an action plan for key issues
Define and improve technical changeovers using lean techniques (i.e. SMED)
Lead and participate in continuous improvement activities relating to Production, Engineering & Manufacturing Skills and Qualifications

Time served apprenticeship to HNC level or similar qualification in a related engineering field and experience within a similar role
Multi-skilled training with ideally an electrical bias
PLC fault finding and modifications experience
Robotics experience control, and modification
Knowledge of problem solving and analysis tools (FMEA, 5 Whys or equivalent)
Strong understanding of H&S within a fast-paced Manufacturing environment
Ability to work on your own & as part of a team

If you feel this is of interest, please send your CV to directly to Nicole Alldritt at (url removed)

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business

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