Job Description
Job Title: Electrical Maintenance Technician
Duration: 3 Month Contract (with potential extension)
Location: Bromborough, Wirral
Shift: 42-hour work week – 12-hour days and 12-hour nights. Shift pattern can be discussed in detail at interview.
Pay: (You will be paid via, Randstad UK. No Limited Company option for this role.)
Start Date: Immediate Start (from July to September, with a view to a further 3-month extension)
Position Summary
We have a new opportunity for an experienced, electrically biased engineer to join the maintenance team at our client's site in Bromborough. Reporting into the Maintenance Lead Technician, the main purpose of the role will be to provide a safe, high-quality, cost-effective maintenance service to site assets including preventative, predictive and breakdown maintenance; to enhance people's and product's safety, product quality, protection of the environment and Operations performance.
Our client is a well-established and leading manufacturer in the UK, producing many well-loved brands with a long heritage in breakfast cereals, including a specialist focus on Cheerios.
As a bright, forward-thinking company, they are always striving for new ways to develop and market better products, helping them to enhance the lifestyle of consumers and stay at the top of the highly competitive cereal category.
A Day in the Life of an Electrical Maintenance Technician
As part of the core maintenance team, your day-to-day responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:
* Root cause analysis of technical problems
* Providing both planned and reactive maintenance solutions across plant.
* Maintenance of packaging and process equipment that is making cereal.
* Generation, completion and return of work orders.
* Participate and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
* Utilising TPM methods (Total Productive Maintenance) to maintain and improve fixed assets.
What will make you successful?
We are looking for an Electrically biased Engineer to fill this role. You will ideally be experienced within an FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods) environment. Other areas of experience will be considered but FMCG (especially food manufacturing) is preferred.
Ideally you will have completed a time-served engineering apprenticeship or minimum ONC/HNC/NVQ or equivalent in Electrical Engineering with demonstrated experience.
Electrically biased is essential for this role – competency in other engineering disciplines is a bonus but must have bias towards electrical.
Working knowledge of H&S, environmental and legislative requirements.
Being conscious in role to maximise effectiveness of relationship between Engineering and Production to bring about performance improvements across the department, fostering teamwork.
Ability to problem-solve and analyse. Committed to root cause analysis and proactive continuous improvement initiatives.
Important Health & Safety Considerations: Due to the specific nature of the manufacturing environment, candidates with a pacemaker, severe nut allergy, or severe asthma cannot be considered for this role.