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Wednesbury
3 weeks ago
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Lead Engineer – FMCG

Days Based Role – Monday - Friday 11am - 7pm

Salary: £55,000 + Pension + Bonus + Benefits

Location: Wednesbury

Reference: JO6454/MP

The Company

An excellent opportunity has arisen with one of the UK’s instantly recognisable and highly regarded engineering support companies. Benefiting from continuous improvements to all the manufacturing processes the group works within several sectors across Europe and Latin America including organisations such as hospitals, hotels, restaurants, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical companies.

Key Skills

  • Apprentice Trained Engineer with Supervisory Experience

  • Knowledge of a PLC Automated Environment

  • Understanding of PPM Systems within Manufacturing Budgets

    The Roles

    You will have served a minimum of a full apprenticeship in Electrical/Mechanical engineering and have experience working within planned and preventative maintenance schedules, working on conveyors, hydraulic presses, industrial boilers, roller ironers, folding machines, packaging machines, basic PLC Fault Finding, inputs/outputs, inverters, drives, sensors, relays, contactors, distribution boards, electrical drawings/diagrams, gas dryers, spreading machines and project based work within a high speed automated environment.

    You will also be involved with Continuous Improvement, planning/delegating workloads, H&S, overseeing a team of up to 3 engineers, training/development.

    There is a huge amount of variety on offer, so the successful candidate will be in line to broaden their skills considerably.

    If you are interested in this role, please send a copy of your current CV using the details provided, interviews will be held locally, and the company is looking to recruit this role as soon as possible.

    ETS Consulting Ltd – Recruitment specialists with specific areas of expertise in the Manufacturing, Technical, Engineering and Sales markets.

    ETS Consulting Limited act as an employment business and employment agency and are registered in England and Wales as ETS Consulting Limited, registered no (phone number removed). Registered office address 7 Stamford Square, Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, United Kingdom, OL6 6QU.

    If one of our consultants contacts you in relation to this role, please be aware that as part of our registration process you will be required to provide ETS Consulting with proof of your identity along with proof of your eligibility to work in the United Kingdom

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