The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Electrical Technician/Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer
Location: Penrith, Cumbria, UK
Contract / Shift: Permanent, Monday to Friday - 40 hours per week - on call every other week
You will join a small onsite team where we prioritise the safety of our people and put you at the heart of what we do. Being part of this team not only gives you that family feel but you will also join our internal community of Engineers, giving you access to support on fault resolution and spare parts from within. If we can’t fix it no one can!
What You’ll be working on:
* Drag Chain Conveyors
* Screw conveyors
* Belt and bucket Elevators
* Mixing Equipment
* Weighing Equipment
* Boilers and steam plant
* Electrical Control Panels with Inverters and PLCs
* Compressed air and pneumatic equipment
* Hydraulic equipment
Responsibilities include:
* Overall maintenance of the site including both reactive and planned maintenance tasks, fault finding, and small improvement projects, minimising plant downtime.
* Supporting the Engineering Manager to ensure health and safety, feed safety and Quality standards are never compromised.
* Ensure all work is risk assessed and carried out on safely isolated equipment.
* PPM tasks in accordance with the agreed schedule. In line with our CMMS - Agility.
* Be proactive in cooperation with the Operators to agree equipment downtime and availability for maintenance tasks.
* Assist the Engineering Manager in ensuring that adequate spare parts are held in stock by keeping the stores area organised and reporting parts used and ordering from suppliers.
* Contribute to continuous improvement by highlighting/identifying possible cost saving initiatives or process improvements.
* Assist with Control of Contractors, Permits to Work etc.
To be successful we are looking for the following knowledge, skills and experience:
* Apprenticeship trained, HNC (or equivalent) or time served Engineer – ideally multi-skilled Engineer or with an Electrical bias.
* Experience of working with maintenance systems.
* City & Guilds Electrical qualification desired.
* Good H&S knowledge in legislation and application (IOSH qualification, desirable) with a safety-first focus.
* Desirable if experience but training can be provided.
* Confined Space.
* Welding/Fabrication Qualifications.
* 18th Edition.
* PASAM, FLT, BOAS.
In return you will get:
* Good shift pattern with overtime, call out available additional/potential earnings.
* Training provided both internal and external courses.
* Full PPE provided including clothing and boots.
* Group benefits such as matched pension up to 10%, enhanced family and financial benefits, discount portals and more.
Location:
Our sites are rural with minimal public transport therefore ability to access site without the need for public transport will be required.
Rewarding your passion:
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us:
ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes:
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales:
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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