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Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Wrexham
3 days ago
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Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Location: Wrexham

Salary: £49,900 + Healthcare + Pension

Continental Shift pattern 2 Day's 2 Nights 7-7

Reference: Jo6553/LW

The Company

An excellent opportunity has arisen with one of the most secure food manufacturing groups in the World. The plant in Wrexham is one of the UKs flagship food processing manufacturing plants of its kind. They continue to expand, based on the reputation they have built for quality delivery of products to all the major multiples they supply to, they have become an extremely secure employer, in the North of UK.

Key Skill:

  • Apprentice Trained Engineer

  • Experience of PLC systems & Automated machinery

  • Understanding of PPM systems

  • Food Experience

    The Role

    The successful candidate will be a time served multi-skilled engineer, qualified to a minimum level of City Guilds/NVQ with the IEE 17th Edition wiring regulations qualification.

    A food industry background or experience of clean room working requirements such as Dairy or Pharmaceuticals would be advantageous and at least 3 years proven achievement in your discipline after completion of an apprenticeship.

    You will have or be able to develop within a short period of time a working knowledge of various cooking, depositing ,sealing & packing equipment along with conveyor systems and all forms of electrical & mechanical drive systems and be able to read and understand all forms of electrical and mechanical schematic diagrams and flow charts and have some experience of working and maintaining PLC controlled machines.

    You should also be proficient in the use of general and specialised hand tools with bench fitting/repair skills in order to carry out in house servicing/repair work on electric motors, pumps, gearboxes as and when required.

    There is a huge amount of training 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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