Engineering, Scotland

Job Description

Do you want to work for a highly successful food manufacturing company who are still flourishing and looking to make a rapid expansion into their own respective market?

My client is a well-established food manufacturing company who are looking for an electrically biased maintenance engineer to join their team. This rare opportunity has become available due to an unprecedented expansion in prior years and is therefore very much an excellent opportunity to create a lucrative career for yourself.

They have an exceptional family environment where you will be become part of a team who are not only friends on the job but as well as out. I cannot emphasise enough that this is an opportunity to join something worthwhile as well as lucrative long term.

Salary:
£40K-£44K DoE (overtime available on weekends)

Shift:
Monday to Friday (8am to 5pm) however, there is flexibility available.

Key Responsibilities:

•Maintenance and repair of a range of machinery.

•Incorporating excellent relations with external contractors

•Comply with health and safety and food safety legislation

•Ensuring where possible production is not impacted and liaise with production for planned maintenance

•Preventative maintenance of machinery.

•On call support

•Carry out any special projects as required by management team

•Maintenance of records for repairs, breakdowns, installations etc.

•Responsible for ensuring all engineering contractors wear PPE

•Support with all customer, regulatory or accreditation body enquiries, site visits and audits

An ideal candidate should have/preferrable have:

•Experience of electrical and mechanical plants

•Knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems

•Experience of planned maintenance systems, breakdown maintenance and installation of motors, VFD’s and PLC’s

•Apprenticeship or equivalent formal training programme in installation and maintenance that includes practical experience

•Experience with food process and packing equipment would be an advantage.

If you are interested in this position, then please forward a copy of your most up to date CV to alanbenny@drnewitt.com or contact Alan Benny on 0131 226 5060.