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Maintenance Engineer - Manufacturing £37ph

Bedford
7 months ago
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Maintenance Engineer Bedford needed for ongoing contract with maintaining manufacturing machinery experience needed for a high speed Manufacturer with a very friendly team.

Contract Maintenance Engineer rate is to £37ph

Contract Maintenance Engineer is a very long term contract (like a permanent role)

This is a shift role so working 12 hours but days and nights, lots of time off for opportunity for overtime.

Must have experience of maintaining machinery in a factory as a Maintenance Engineer

The company have established themselves in the market over generations and have a very good reputation; they have continued to grow and evolved by created new and exciting products and keep innovating and investing in the company.

This is a fantastic role for an Maintenance Engineer to work not only on maintenance however more on continuous improvements which is a great opportunity to look at ways to make improvements to machinery, preventative maintenance, efficiency and look at root cause of breakdowns and implementing fixes and changes.

Desired Skills and Experience Maintenance Engineer

Qualification or overseas UK equivalent or Apprenticeship and experience of working in a manufacturing environment.

Some Duties for Maintenance Engineer, please contact for full spec;

Complete day to day reactive and planned maintenance tasks and ensure adherence to service level agreements
Mechanical fault finding and repair
Multi skilled role working with various machinery
Suggest improvement ideas
Play a significant part in future project work within maintenanceFor more information please call Simon (phone number removed) or email (url removed) or apply

Maintenance Technician commutable from Bedford, Sandy, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, Royston, Befordshire, Cambridgeshire, Biggleswade

Proactive (about us)

Specialising in FMCG Manufacturing, with an additional growing presence across pharmaceutical, injection moulding and household care. Proactive's FMCG division is broken into four niche and specialist teams; Engineering, Operations (Technical, Production) and Senior Appointments.

Operating from a network of offices, covering supplying permanent and contract workforce to clients nationwide. Utilising a long track record of successful partnerships, we understand the challenges that you currently face, working alongside you to find the right role.

Application Process

I will endeavour to contact all applicants however if you do not hear from me within two weeks then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful.

Proactive also offer a referral scheme for successful applicants - if you know anyone that could be suited to this position then please contact Proactive with their details and if they are placed by Proactive you will £250*. *T&Cs apply

Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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