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Huyton
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Shift Leader – Electrical

Location Huyton

Salary £55,000 + pension + 28 days holiday + progression opportunities

Hours 3 on 3 off – 3 days | 3 off | 3 nights | 3 off

(with 28 holidays off 60% / 7 months of the year)

A genuinely superb & quite unique opportunity for a shift leader or maintenance engineer to join a market leading business to help setting up and shaping a department.

  • Brand new state of the art facility with plans for rapid expansion in the near future.

  • Extremely stable and well run company with a track record of reinvestment into people and facilities.

    The Job:

  • Be part of a team to initially help set up the plant / factory, assist with installation and commissioning of new machinery and equipment.

  • Responsible for operating, monitoring, and maintaining the converting lines.

  • Lead a multidisciplinary team of operators.

  • Troubleshoot / maintain manufacturing and materials handling machinery such as, conveyors, high speed materials processing machines, pneumatics, PLC’s, bearings, wrappers, palletisers, packaging machinery.

    The Person:

  • Seeking 2 x Electrical bias & 2 x Mechanical bias

  • Apprentice trained, NVQ 3, ONC, HNC

  • Good communication, stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills important.

  • Manufacturing plant experience eg materials, packaging, FMCG, automated warehousing, stackers, sorters / sortation, robotics, sensors, scanners, labellers, conveyors, printing, materials handling, glass, plastics, paper, converting, metals, medical, pharmaceutical.

  • Experience fault finding / working with PLCs – either Allen Bradely, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Omron

  • May suit a maintenance engineer / technician seeking more of a leadership role.

    To apply please send CV to Tim Fawcett at Control Recruitment Solutions or call the office number.

    Key words – shift team leader, shift leader, shift supervisor, maintenance engineer; CI engineer, process improvement ; lean engineer; manufacturing supervisor, converting manager; converting supervisor, FMCG, food, beverages, alcohol, drinks, palletizer; conveyor; brewery, paper, tissue, recycling; circular; pallets; containers; packaging, medical; ceramics; plastics; rubber; building materials; building products; corrugator; bakery, chocolate, confectionary, dairy, snacks, frozen, ambient foods; FMCG, automated warehousing, stackers, sorters / sortation, robotics, sensors, scanners, labelers, conveyors, packaging or printing, materials handling, recycling plant, foundry, chemical plant, brewery, paper mill, cement works, brick works, asphalt plant, manufacturing plant, electromechanical / automated plant. Ex Forces engineers, raf, reme, navy, marine, HNC / HND / Time served / formal apprenticeship, Drives, inverter drives, Instrumentation, control systems engineer, automation engineer , controls engineer, ECI Engineer , EC engineer , electrical and automation engineer
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