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Night Shift Engineer

Hunter Selection Limited
Posted 2 days ago, valid for a month
Location

Dereham, Norfolk NR20 3PG, England

Salary

£32,000 - £38,400 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

Life Insurance
Employee Assistance

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  • The position is for a Night Shift Engineer (Electrical Biased) located in Suffolk/Norfolk, with a salary range of £50,000-£52,000 plus overtime.
  • Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience outside of apprenticeship and possess electrical qualifications.
  • The role involves maintaining production machinery, fault finding, and working with PLCs and automation systems during the night shift from 10pm to 6am.
  • Benefits include a private pension, life assurance, 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, and 24/7 employee assistance programs.
  • The ideal candidate should have a flexible approach to working hours and experience in a manufacturing environment.

Night Shift Engineer (Electrical Biased) Suffolk/Norfolk (IP21)

Commutable from - Thetford, Eye, Diss, Norwich, Bungay, Beccles, Stowmarket, Long Stratton

£50,000-£52,000 + Overtime

Monday-Friday Perm Nights 10pm-6am (Early Finish Fridays)

Benefits:-

  • Private Pension (9%) + Life Assurance X4
  • 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
  • 24/7 EAP, Health Assessments, Wellbeing Support

Our client is a leading packaging manufacturer, part of a multi-billion-pound global group, with a reputation for product quality which is second to none and industry leading standards. Due to engineering departmental growth, they are looking for an experienced electrical biased maintenance engineer, to work on their night shift.

Role & Responsibilities:

  • Maintain all reactive and schedule maintenance on production machinery
  • Working alongside and supported by shift engineers for breakdowns on production lines
  • Electrical & mechanical fault finding and repairs
  • Dealing with high-speed production, processing & packaging machinery
  • PLC's, automation, control systems, VSD's, AC Drives
  • Electrical safety, LOTO, isolation
  • Installation & commissioning of new machinery

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

  • Looking for a multi-skilled engineer - electrically biased
  • Must have electrical qualifications
  • At least 5 years experience outside of apprenticeship
  • Ideally have competed a formal apprenticeship scheme
  • NVQ or City Guilds qualified to level 3 or higher
  • Must have worked in some form of manufacturing environment
  • Have a flexible approach to working hours, cover extra hours & shutdowns as overtime
  • Computer literate - able to use SAP systems
  • Experience of working with hydraulics, pneumatics, VSD's, power transmission drive systems
  • PLC - electrical fault finding skills
  • Steam systems experience would be beneficial
  • Must be very health & safety focussed
  • Ideally qualified to HNC electrical engineering

"To apply please email your CV / resume to [ ]". - Chris Gumm -

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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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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.