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Shift Engineers

Hunter Selection Limited
Posted 19 hours ago, valid for 4 days
Location

Birmingham, West Midlands B27 6QS, England

Salary

£30,000 - £36,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • A leading food manufacturer in Birmingham is seeking Multi-Skilled Shift Engineers with a salary of £49,000 plus regular overtime.
  • Candidates should have at least a Level 3 qualification in engineering and a completed time-served apprenticeship.
  • The role involves reactive and planned maintenance across various engineering areas, including electrical fault finding and mechanical repairs.
  • Experience in food manufacturing or a similar fast-paced environment is preferred, along with skills in PLC fault finding and structured PPMs.
  • The position requires working 12-hour shifts (2 days, 2 nights, 4 off) and offers benefits like a pension match, holiday days, and retail discounts.

Shift Engineers

Birmingham

Commutable from Dudley, Wolverhampton, Bromsgrove, West Brom, Walsall, Redditch, Cannock£49,000 + Regular Overtime Available

12hr Shifts - 2 Days / 2 Nights / 4 Off (7-7)

Benefits:-

  • Up to 10% Match Pension + Life Assurance X4
  • 20 Shift Days Holiday
  • Discounts At Most Retailers, Medihealth Scheme, 24/7 EAP

Our client is a leading food manufacturer, that values hard work, teamwork and developing people. They are part of a global group with multiple sites in the UK, this is their biggest factory employing over 500 people. They are looking for several Multi-Skilled Shift Engineers, either biased to join their growing team.

Role & Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for reactive & planned maintenance across all areas of engineering - manufacturing, production, site services, infrastructure & plant equipment
  • Carry out PPM schedule effectively and efficiently
  • Involved with site project work - installations & upgrades to machinery
  • Electrical fault finding & repairs on automation, control panels, PLC's, electrical power systems
  • Mechanical fabrication, fitting, welding & machining to make parts & repairs
  • Working on high-speed food production & packaging lines, robotics, chillers, freezers, cooling tunnels, mixers, ovens, weighers, baggers, labellers, food processing equipment
  • Dealing with pneumatics, motors, bearings, shafts, gearboxes, drives, hydraulics, compressors

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

  • Must be a multi-skilled engineer - with either an electrical or mechanical biased
  • Ideally have worked in food manufacturing or a similar fast-paced manufacturing environment
  • PLC - electrical fault finding skills
  • Able to work to time sensitive breakdowns and repairs
  • Worked on structured PPM's - on own initiative and as part of a team
  • Electrically able to fault find on motors, sensors, circuitry, contactors, relays, control panels
  • Have completed a time-served-apprenticeship
  • Attitude is everything - wants engineers that are willing to get stuck in and learn new things
  • City & Guilds / NVQ Level 3 qualified in engineering as a minimum requirement
  • Mechanical fabrication, fitting, welding, machining skills beneficial
  • Comfortable working on site infrastructure and associated plant equipment

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Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

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.

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