We are looking for an experienced Multi-Skilled Engineer to work for one of our clients who is a well-established manufactuirng company located in Skelmersdale, Lancashire area.

THE ROLE:
This is an amazing opportunity for a fully trained Multi Skilled Engineer with relevant hands on experience to join an outstanding and growing manufacturing organization.

Reporting to the Engineering Supervisor you will be involved in Planned and unplanned maintenance and break downs, maintain kit, and systems, to ensure that they achieve production targets, aiming for zero target engineering down time throughout the plant.

Also ensuring that equipment is available for production, required an energy and urgency at all time to fix the breakdown asap. Developing a clear knowledge and understanding of the factory, machinery and their use.

THE DUTIES:

• Carrying out fault finding diagnosis and repairs on mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic equipment. Electronics repair will be an advantage
• required to attend and carry tasks on planned and unplanned maintenance of our high-speed production machinery such as servo-controlled P&P systems, filling machines, flow wrappers, check weighers, shrink and stretch wrappers etc.

• This is a hands-on role, to carry mechanical, electrical and pneumatic/hydraulic tasks with sense of urgency.
• Ensure smooth running of the factory machinery.
• Ensure break downs are attended at a speedy response.
• To orientate your hand on engineering skills drive to ensure that the products produced meet customer specification, quality, and food safety.
• To be proactive in looking for areas of engineering improvement and to adopt techniques and practices that ensure that there is a quality environment in production

THE HOURS:
Flexibility to work a 4 on 4 off rota working 12 hour shifts on both days and nights. (0600-1800/ 1800-0600) However there is and element of flexibility around the hours of work sticking to the 4 on 4 off pattern which would be disccused at interview stage.

THE RATE OF PAY:
Up to £50k (dep on experience) plus overtime.

ABOUT YOU:

To excel in this role, you should ideally have Ideally you will be:

• Time served HAND ON engineering experience ideally from within the manufacturing industry.

• Flexible and Open to change and will always look for better, simpler, and more effective ways of maintain the machines under controlled speed and pressure
• Communicate with the production at all time in the breakdown situation and decision making for requesting help to get the lines up and running as fast as can be
• Understand all tasks, processes, and activities as an expert in Ice cream to Achieve good maintenance
• Commitment and enthusiasm to working together to achieve better outcomes, with a sense of customer service towards the factory

BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary depending on experience
• Company pension scheme
• Death in service x2 annual salary
• Performance-based annual bonus scheme
• Uniform/PPE
• Excellent working conditions
• Subsidised staff restaurant

Please contact Simon Rayner today for more details.