Job Description
Maintenance Engineer
Continental Shift (Days & Nights)
Leicester
£55,000 + Bonus
One of the worlds most recognised brands is seeking to add to it's world class manufacturing site in Leicester with an electrically biased maintenance engineer. A background in Food/FMCG will be advantageous as well as experience fault finding on PLC and HMI's.
Key Duties – Maintenance Engineer
1. Perform maintenance tasks within your designated area in a food manufacturing environment, optimizing wrench time while adhering to safety guidelines and food hygiene standards to prevent contamination.
2. Diagnose and resolve faults in food production machinery, including mechanical, electrical, and fluid power systems, by conducting inspections, testing components, and applying condition monitoring techniques to minimize downtime.
3. Repair and replace defective parts on equipment such as conveyors, packing lines, pumps, gearboxes, bearings, valves, and heat exchange systems, ensuring all work complies with food safety legislation like HACCP and quality management protocols.
4. Commission, maintain, and troubleshoot instrumentation, process control systems, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to support efficient production operations.
5. Contribute to continuous improvement by applying the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) meth...