The Shift engineer will provide essential engineering expertise to support Operations in reducing and eliminating downtime. This role involves both proactive and reactive maintenance.
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 8am-4pm.
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum (DOE)
Key Duties of a Multi-Skilled Engineer:
- Conduct routine inspections and preventative maintenance on production equipment.
- Identifying and resolving any potential issues before they cause failures.
- Respond rapidly to machinery breakdowns, diagnose the problems and perform repairs or report back to engineering team leader if external specialists are required.
- Carry out machine adjustments, Size changes, machine settings when mods are made. This is to help support the production function.
- Monitor and Calibrate equipment to ensure accuracy, quality, and safe standards are met.
- Keep accurate records of maintenance i.e. PPM schedules, Shift Reporting etc.
- Adhere to health & safety guidelines and ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
- May from time to get involved with project work to get equipment back up to standard which would assist in helping production performance figures.
- Familiar with maintaining packing equipment would be an advantage:
- Experience of pneumatics
- Horizontal flow packers
- Vertical form fill baggers
- Carton erectors
- Multi-Heads
- Gluing systems
- Metal detectors/check weighers
- X-ray
- Various bespoke hand packing/labelling lines some with printers.