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Maintenance Engineer
Location: Alton The role is Monday - Friday 07:30 - 04:30 with occasional Calls outs.
Are you a dedicated professional with a passion for keeping production running smoothly in a fast-paced FMCG environment? Do you thrive on challenges, tackling both planned maintenance and emergency repairs with equal enthusiasm?
Duties and responsibilities:
- Keeping our production lines running smoothly by conducting routine scheduled maintenance and responding swiftly to equipment faults.
- Work with the Lead Maintenance Engineer to design and implement effective maintenance strategies, procedures, and methods.
- Utilizing Engineering system (Maintain X) to track job progress, monitor PMs, and manage stock.
- Providing weekly updates on work completed.
- Diagnosing breakdown problems, installing new parts, ensuring equipment is working correctly, and performing quality inspections on completed tasks.
- Communicating effectively with all departments, suppliers, subcontractors, and colleagues.
- Arranging specialist procurement of fixtures, fittings, or components.
- Managing maintenance tools, stores, and equipment.
- Handling emergencies, unplanned problems, and repairs.
- Adhering to all H&S legislation.
- Assisting with the installation and commissioning of plant and equipment.
- Participating in Production/Engineering meetings as needed.
- Performing facilities/electrical maintenance work when required.
- Collaborating with production and Production management teams.
- May be requied to travel to sister site in Telford.
- Flexibility to work overtime as needed.
- Performing additional duties as assigned by management.
Candidate Skills and experience:
- Experience in an FMCG environment working with equipment like VFFS bagging machines, multi-head weighers, and conveyors.
- Experience with PLC Inverter drives and associated control panel equipment (safety PLC/PILZ relays/Overload breakers and contactors).
- BTEC/HNC or equivalent in Electromechanical/Multiskilled Engineering is essential.
- Apprenticeship or training in HM Forces is desirable.
- 17th/18th Edition Electrical Installation
- Forklift and Mobile Platform qualifications, ATEX, COMPEX, IOSH Working Safely, and Ladder Inspection certifications are highly desirable.
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
