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Mechanical Maintenance Engineer £70k (Manufacturing)

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Maintenance Engineer London - new role due to promotion. This is an excellent role that rarely comes up, working for a prestigious company that invests heavily in their staff.

This is a hands on role that requires the maintenance engineer to maintain factory machinery.

Skill set for Maintenance Engineer will ideally be mechanical bias but happy to look at electrical bias as well.

Maintenance Engineer Salary is £70k

Very good pension

Lots of holidays for Maintenance Engineer on shift

Maintenance Engineer role has career opportunities for progression, training etc.

Maintenance Engineer work a days/ nights x 12 hours shift patterns

Excellent opportunities for progression and being more involved in CI work.

Friendly company, staff enjoy working here and are treated well with lots of career progression and opportunity to enhance on skill set, extra courses and development. The company like to promote from within and have opportunities to do this if you wish as well as further progress skills.

Maintenance Engineer Desired Skills and Experience

Electrical qualification or Apprenticeship and experience.

Company Description

Great company's to work for with an excellent reputation, support and structure.

Maintenance Engineer Duties

To carry out the requirements of the planned preventive maintenance programme.

Solid practical hands on mechanical experience, maintaining automated and semi automated machinery
Working with pumps, motors, gearboxes, pneumatic
Reactive and planned maintenance
Keeping downtime to a minimum
Work to KPI's however also using initiative to help with improvements
Be part of a world class manufacturing siteMaintenance Engineer role is Commutable from London, Essex, Kent, Romford, Barking, Beckton, Enfield, Epping Forrest, Chelmsford, Stanford Le Hope, Tilbury, Grays, Dartford, Erith, Greenwich, Stratford, Silvertown, Bromley, East Ham, West Ham, Plaistow, Tottehham, Loughton, Rainham, Dagenham, Brentwood and more.

For more information on Maintenance Engineer please apply or call Simon (phone number removed) or email (url removed)

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 London, Egham (Surrey), Milton Keynes, Heathrow and Brighton, Proactive supply 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

If you have the above skills and wish to be considered for this position or find out more details then please submit your CV to (url removed) or simply click apply below.

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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