The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Electrical Technician//Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer
Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire, DL6 2NH
Shift: 40Hrs per week - Monday to Friday Days 08:00 - 16:30
On call 1 in 3 covering out of hours and all weekend.
Responsibility for the overall maintenance of the site including both reactive and planned maintenance tasks, fault finding, and small improvement projects. Supporting the Engineering Manager to ensure health and safety, feed safety and Quality standards are never compromised.
Responsibilities include:
1. Ensure the site is Electrically & Mechanically safe at all times
2. Ensure all work is risk assessed and carried out on safely isolated equipment.
3. Carry out planned preventative maintenance in accordance with the agreed schedule. In line with our CMMS - Agility
4. Be proactive in cooperation with the Operators to agree equipment downtime and availability for maintenance tasks.
5. Carry out all maintenance tasks to a high standard to minimise Plant downtime due to mechanical and electrical failure including reactive maintenance/breakdowns.
6. Assist the Engineering Manager in ensuring that adequate spare parts are held in stock by keeping the stores area organised and reporting parts used in an accurate and timely manner. This to include ordering parts from suppliers using our internal PO/ordering system.
7. Monitor and report plant condition as part of the daily routine
8. Support the Plant internal hygiene audit ensuring contribution to score increases audit on audit
9. Contribute to continuous improvement by highlighting/identifying possible cost saving initiatives or process improvements
10. Ensure workshop and maintenance area housekeeping is kept at a high standard
11. Assist with Control of Contractors, Permits to Work etc.
12. Be available on a rota basis to respond to breakdowns out of hours
What You’ll be working on:
13. Drag Chain Conveyors
14. Screw conveyors
15. Belt and bucket Elevators
16. Mixing Equipment
17. Weighing Equipment
18. Boilers and steam plant
19. Electrical Control Panels with Inverters and PLCs
20. Compressed air and pneumatic equipment
21. Hydraulic equipment
To be successful we are looking for the following knowledge, skills and experience:
22. Apprenticeship trained, HNC (or equivalent) or time served Engineer – ideally multi-skilled Engineer or with an Electrical bias 60:40 Electrical:Mechanical
23. Experience of working with maintenance systems.
24. City & Guilds Electrical qualification desired
25. Good H&S knowledge in legislation and application (IOSH qualification, desirable) with a safety-first focus.
26. Desirable if experience but training can be provided Confined Space Welding/Fabrication Qualifications 18th Edition PASAM, FLT, BOAS
In return you will get:
27. Good shift pattern with overtime, call out available additional/potential earnings
28. Training provided both internal and external courses
29. Full PPE provided including clothing and boots
30. Group benefits such as matched pension up to 10%, enhanced family and financial benefits, discount portals and more
Location
Our sites are rural with minimal public transport therefore ability to access site without the need for public transport will be required.
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.