Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Salary: £50,400 – £51,600 per year

• Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer
• £42,000 – £43,000 plus pension
• 4 on – 4 off
• FMCG / manufacturing
• Dorset

THE COMPANY

Our client is part of a national food group employing over 3,500 people throughout the UK. Due to an increase in orders they urgently need to recruit a Multi-skilled Maintenance to their existing team. This is an ideal opportunity for a Multi-skilled Engineer to develop their career within a global brand company!

THE ROLE

The primary role of a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer is to provide engineering support, to ensure the plant and machinery are available and reliable. You will assist in the reduction of plant downtime, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and support health and safety and project work. The site has a pre-existing PPM plan which they are keen to enhance and improve upon to lower downtime and be a proactive business leading engineering team.

The site is fast paced, dynamic and truly multi-skilled, no day is the same, so you need to be at your best to be part of this high functioning, high output engineering team who on a daily basis truly make a difference to business performance.

The successful Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer’s benefits include:

• Weekly overtime Opportunities
• Company Pension Scheme
• 242 hours annual leave per annum
• Formal and informal learning and development opportunities
• A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does

The Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer’s duties and responsibilities are:

• To ensure planned and reactive maintenance is carried out to the required standard and to schedule. Fault find, fix, repair machinery and plant, safely to standard within time.
• To be able to coordinate and cooperate with production supervisors on a day-to-day basis, to ensure the smooth running and availability of plant and equipment. 
• To actively support and engage in continuous improvement projects and ensures the sustainability of these activities through the promotion of best operational practices. 
• Work alongside external contractors and supervise whilst on-site at all times. 
• Continuous promotion of best H&S practice, whilst proactively helping to reduce functional accident statistics. 
• To undertake project and capital works assigned to you, ensuring they are delivered to schedule. Support audit work being carried out (contractor control, housekeeping, PPM, etc.). 
• Support the prioritizing, organising, and planning of weekend maintenance work, production cover, and project work as appropriate, providing stand-in management cover over weekends if required.

The Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer will have:

• Proven ability to work at pace and to tight deadlines.
• Both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering experience preferably within Food Manufacturing or FMCG with a recognised qualification.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels & ability to influence and work well with others in a friendly manner.
• Good standard of general education (including Maths & English).
• Ability to work individually, without constant supervision, and with a sensible degree of flexibility to your approach.
• Essential – Basic Microsoft office skills.

THE OFFER

The client offers the Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer an opportunity to further your career, learn new skills, a competitive salary between £50,400 – £51,600, company pension and overtime opportunities.