Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer
Preston / Blackpool
Salary circa £40,000 pa

Days Monday to Friday Days 8am-4.30pm (No Evenings, No Weekends)

Great opportunity to join a food manufacturing business that has experienced tremendous growth through industry-leading levels of investment in their people, products, and production facilities. The business is keen to appoint a Maintenance Engineer (Electrical OR Mechanical bias) to join the Engineering Team and work across the full scope of production facilities on site.

The Role

• Work 40 hours per week Monday to Friday (No evenings or weekends);
• Undertake planned preventative maintenance, liaising with the production department;
• Ensure that machinery, systems, infrastructure, and equipment run optimally with minimal downtime;
• Respond to equipment breakdowns and conduct routine and condition-based maintenance;
• Diagnose faults and research solutions to stop re-occurring breakdowns;
• Establish different maintenance procedures and protocols;
• Conduct and oversee maintenance process audits;
• Be involved with Project Engineering at a site benefit ting from considerable CAPEX investment;
• Assist with the implementation of robust Engineering systems;
• Work closely with all departments:
  Operations, Manufacturing, Quality/Technical, Supply Chain;
• Work with the production team to improve production flow, throughput and productivity on a variety of products and manufacturing processes;
• Liaise with Engineering suppliers to ensure timely and cost-efficient solutions to parts ordering, spares holding and service contract support;
• During new product trials the Engineer appointed will provide expertise, guidance and practical support in the specification, trialling and introduction of new products into Manufacturing.

The Person

• Experienced with automated factory and planned maintenance systems;
• Possess Maintenance Engineering experience gained from within a Manufacturing environment;
• Have the ability to work well within a team and independently;
• To be a proactive problem-solver with excellent attention to detail;
• Self-motivated and willing to go the extra mile;
• Educated to NVQ L3 / ONC / HNC (Mechanical or Electrical);
• Competent in a variety of engineering disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Plant);
• Able to work at pace and possess the passion and determination to improve the Engineering function, always looking for better.