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Maintenance Engineer

Hunter Selection Limited
Posted 9 hours ago, valid for 21 days
Location

Gloucester, Gloucestershire GL12EH, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Elevate your career with one of the UK's leading FMCG manufacturing companies as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer in Gloucester.
  • The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £65,000 to £70,000 along with a bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
  • Candidates are expected to have practical experience in the food or FMCG/packaging industry and a minimum of NVQ Level 3 Engineering qualification.
  • This role involves performing both reactive and planned maintenance on high-speed food processing machinery, troubleshooting electrical and mechanical issues, and participating in continuous improvement projects.
  • Applicants should be comfortable with large mechanical work and possess strong PLC troubleshooting skills, ideally with at least a few years of relevant experience.

Elevate your career with one of the UK's premier FMCG manufacturing companies! I want to speak with talented Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join our dynamic client in Gloucester.

This is your chance to work with a company that partners with all the major UK supermarkets, providing you with unmatched stability and growth potential. If you meet our criteria, this is not just a job-it's your opportunity to shine in a respected industry leader.

Don't let this chance pass you by-apply today and take the first step towards an exciting new chapter in your career!

  • Shift: - Days & Night - Rotating Shift Pattern ( 2 days / 2 nights)
  • Salary: - £65,000 - £70,000
  • Bonus
  • 25 days + Bank Holiday
  • Death in service 2x Salary

Role & Responsibilities:

  • Perform reactive and planned maintenance in a manufacturing environment, focusing on high-speed food processing, production, and packaging machinery
  • Troubleshoot and repair industrial plant equipment, site services, and conveyors, drives, shafts, pumps, and compressors
  • Implement a continuous improvement culture with lean manufacturing principles
  • Conduct electrical and mechanical fault finding and planned maintenance activities
  • Participate in project work, including machinery upgrades, new installations, and continuous improvements
  • Work on various equipment types, including fillers, labellers, palletisers, sealers, pneumatics, PLC's, hydraulics, motors, gearboxes, power presses, printers, and forming machines

Requirements

  • Ideal qualifications include a time-served apprenticeship or equivalent (minimum NVQ Level 3 Engineering)
  • Practical experience in a food or FMCG/packaging industry environment
  • Strong PLC troubleshooting skills
  • Comfortable with large mechanical work, including fault finding and repair
  • Ability to perform both electrical and mechanical fault finding
  • Experience with industrial mechanical systems
  • Familiarity with pneumatics, hydraulics, motors, gearboxes

Shifts & Benefits Package:

  • Shift: - Days & Night rotation / 2 days / 2 nights
  • Salary: - £65,000 - £70,000 + benefits

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

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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