Multi-skilled Engineer
Electrical Bias
Highly successful, continuously expanding chilled food company
Location: Ealing area
Salary: Up to £60,000 - paid hourly
Benefits: Numerous benefits including 33 days holiday (including bank holidays back in lieu), pension, life assurance, income protection, extensive discounts for you & your family career growth support, training &mental well-being support.
Work pattern: 12 hour shifts – Day/Night Rotation: 4 on/4 off (with flexibility)
Background in electrical buying/mechanical – Ideally around r 60/40 or 70/30 Split Electrical/Mechanical
Highly successful, forward thinking chilled food group, focused on quality of service & products, supplying to leading food retailers throughout the UK & internationally are looking for a Multi-skilled Engineer to join the business, due to their continued rapid expansion. The successful Multi-skilled Engineer will work with a skilled, passionate, diverse team & in a culture where employees are supported & can develop their career as the company continues to grow. Innovative & continuously looking at market trends, the company regularly develop new products for the chilled market & work with several high-profile retailers.
This is a great time to join the company to use your experience & skills to help the company change & evolve whilst benefiting from the company’s growth opportunities.
The Role:
*The Multi-skilled Engineer is responsible for the day-to-day engineering function - providing scheduled preventative & unplanned/reactive breakdown maintenance using Best Engineering Practices quickly & efficiently whilst finding cost effective improvements to ensure the reliability & efficiency of equipment & site assets.
*The Multi-skilled Engineer will also work following GMP, SHE & TFMS/BRC policy as well as completing Audit & closing the action promptly, keeping a record for traceability.
*The MS Engineer will be responsible for delivering Plant Uptime & Maintenance KPIs through planned, preventative & predictive maintenance.
*Report to & support the Engineering Head of Department
*Support the team & assist in developing other engineers/machine operatives
*Lead effective communication between shifts
Required Skills & Experience:
*Strong electrical skills
*Good mechanical skills - for diagnosis & replacement
*Computer literate - familiar with electrical, pneumatic & mechanical drawings
*Some automation skills for fault finding & re-mediation
*The ability to complete any maintenance tasks, identifying & implementing improvements
*Recognised apprenticeship completed
*An electrical qualification would be an advantage - Btech Electrical or equivalent NVQ or city & guilds
*Competent on mechanical engineering
*Automation - CI tools & techniques would be an advantage
*Experience within maintenance
*Experienced Multi-skilled Engineer ideally with a fresh produce/chilled working background (fresh product, chilled food, ready meals, food to go) .
*Food production/manufacturing with some previous UK experience would be desirable
*FMCG Experience would be desirable
*Flexible to work shifts – 4 on 4 off days/nights in rotation: 12 hour shifts
*Great communication skills & the ability to manage contractor on site
*Ability to work under pressure & happy to work in a chilled environment
*Happy to roll sleeves up & get stuck in – able to look after all machinery on site, including manual handling, sometimes at height & in varying temperatures
*IOSH desirable
*H&S and Food Hygiene trained
*Comfortable to work ever-changing environment as the company continues its growth
Salary & Benefits:
The starting salary for this role is up to £60,000 paid hourly (£21.50- £27.00 per hour) 33 days holiday (including bank holidays back in lieu), pension, life assurance, income protection, extensive discounts for you & your family, career development support and mental health support