Shift Maintenance Engineer

Our client is a very established and expanding heavy industry manufacturing company and Staffbase have been appointed to recruit for the position of Shift Maintenance Engineer.

Basic salary £43K - £49K Neg + OT

The successful candidate will work at our client's busy manufacturing plant near Stafford. Applicants will have excellent mechanical engineering skills and ideally some basic electrical fault find and repair skills.

Reporting to the engineering manager the Shift Maintenance Engineer will be required to undertake planned and reactive maintenance activities on a wide range of plant, machinery and site facilities. You duties will include but is not limited to the following;

• Mechanical & electrical maintenance / repair of a wide range of machinery including conveyors, crushers, screens, furnaces, cooling plant and much more
• Maintenance and repair of hydraulic & pneumatic machinery
• Electrical fault find and repair control panels, motors, contractors, sensors, relays etc etc
• Site facilities electrical maintenance

The Shift Maintenance Engineer will be a competent engineer with good mechanical and basic electrical fault find and repair skills. Preferably you will hold formal mechanical or electrical engineering qualification e.g.NVQ level 3 or HND/HNC in electrical engineering. Previous work experience in heavy industry environment such as foundry, recycling or quarry and aggregates sectors would be an advantage however all applicants with necessary skills will be considered.

4 on 3 off 12 hour shifts days for 1 month then rotate to nights

• Excellent basic salary Negotiable £43K - £49K + OT
• 28 days annual leave
• Free on site parking
• Pension