Shift Engineers

Shift EngineersCorby, Northamptonshire

£45,000 (Rising to £50,000 after probation)

12hr Shifts - 4on 4off Days & Nights

Our client is a leading automated distribution organisation, that are part of a global group. This is working out of their newest facility, that became operational in 2022 and is already being expanded. They are looking for a number of Multi-Skilled Shift Engineers to join their growing team.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Provide electrical & mechanical support & repairs for all automated materials handling systems
• Carry out PPM's, reactive maintenance & project work
• Working on conveyors, automated stacker cranes, SCADA systems, barcode readers, scanners, cooling systems, site services, palletisers, automated turntables, PLC's, elevators
• Working in a cold storage facility
• Carry our reactive & planned maintenance of automated stacker cranes, that can operate up to 42 metres
• Assist in developing PPM schedules for all of the new machinery & systems
• Majority of the workload as this is a new site is, problem solving and fault finding at the moment
• Dealing with gearboxes, bearings, rollers, shafts, drives, sensors, control panels, servo drives

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Must have some form of formal electrical qualification - i.e. City & Guilds, NVQ, 17th or 18th Edition
• Happy working at heights - up to 42 metres on cranes
• Comfortable working in cold and freezer ( - 22 degrees ) conditions
• Due to health & safety regulations to go up on cranes - must weigh under 19st (125kg)
• Ideally be a multi-skilled engineer
• Strong electrical & mechanical fault finding and problem solving skills
• Must have worked in a maintenance engineering role previously
• Ideally have worked in automated warehouse, distribution, FMCG, manufacturing
• Experienced in working on conveyors, rollers, stackers
• PLC - electrical fault finding skills would be beneficial

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