Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK
Contract / Shift: Permanent - Days, with occasional nights to cover holiday / Sickness.
Premier Nutrition is the number 1 provider of vitamin premix to UK pet and farm food manufacturers. We are driven to make a difference on farm, in business, and for our industry. We work closely with our customers to turn the intelligence and science behind nutrition into practical solutions that enable their businesses to grow.
To remain at the top of our industry, we are committed to investing in our staff and products and have recently expanded to a brand new multi-million-pound facility with state-of-the-art equipment.
This is a fantastic opportunity to become a valued member of a highly skilled Maintenance Team working with brand new state-of-the-art automation in a fast-growing area of our business.
Responsibilities:
* The role of the Multi-Disciplined Maintenance Engineer / Technician is to provide first-class customer support to the Operations team.
* Perform Preventive Maintenance activities, respond effectively to breakdowns, monitor equipment performance, and provide valuable input to help maintain process yields and efficiencies.
* Flexibility in working across our two sites (Rugeley and Fradley) and support other team members, working weekends and overtime when required.
* Provide assistance to the Projects Team in implementing changes to equipment.
* Contribute to Continuous Improvement initiatives and projects that enhance our operations.
About you:
* Experience in Maintenance Engineering within a safety-critical environment, specifically with skills in fault finding and problem solving on high volume and high-tech equipment, such as PLCs, packing lines, mixers, and compressors.
* Ability to read and understand technical drawings and work on electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic equipment.
* Hold an Engineering Maintenance Apprenticeship qualification or similar (multi-skilled or cross-skilled).
* Electrical, Electronic, or Mechanical diagnostic and development capability.
* Significant experience in a similar environment, preferably with knowledge of working within a mill/food environment, fault diagnostics, analysis, and countermeasure implementation.
* Knowledge of Health and Safety in the workplace.
* Proof of ability to plan effectively for both projects and maintenance.
* Able to work in confined spaces and at height.
Additional DESIRABLE criteria:
* Continuous Improvement qualification
* Experience of PLC fault-finding
* Experience of DC Motor control
* IPAF License (or similar)
* Forklift Truck license.
* 18th Edition IEE wiring regulations
* Electrical inspection and test
Rewarding your passion:
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonuses to 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:
Premier Nutrition is a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the world's leading nutritionists.
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.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone. If you need any additional support, just let us know.
Application Notes:
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive, and we’d love to hear from you. Register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. This information is anonymised and separate from 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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