Maintenance Engineer
Location: Dalton, Thirsk
Salary: starting £50,000 (increasing to £53,000 after probation) plus bonus and overtime
Hours: Rotating weekly shift pattern. Monday to Friday Early / Lates 45 hours a week
We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Engineer to join a small engineering team for a very well established and growing company. The job function is to carry out multi-skilled maintenance tasks, requiring the skills of an experienced maintenance type of person with an electrical bias. There will be up to 6 occasions per year where there will be a requirement to cover for holidays for the night shift engineer.
Responsibilities:
1. Perform full range of plant maintenance tasks and repairs on a proactive/reactive basis.
2. Process optimisation to ensure maximum efficiency.
3. Implement equipment reliability improvements and develop new maintenance workflow methods and techniques.
4. Manage own workflow to remain within maintenance budget.
5. Ensure availability of critical spares.
6. Oversee projects when required.
Key Skills and Qualifications:
1. Thorough understanding of EHS and a safety culture.
2. Post apprenticeship experience.
3. Electro-Mechanical fault finding/repairs to PLC controlled plant, including pneumatic and hydraulics.
4. Carrying out preventative maintenance tasks.
5. Strong communication and organisational skills, able to provide detailed shift reports.
6. A high drive and energy level, can-do attitude, and excellent attention to detail.
7. Be flexible, adjust shifts to cover another engineer’s holiday.
8. Prepared to participate in training and development.
9. Ensure all planned and routine maintenance are carried out and documented on the CMMS.
10. Technical school higher qualification (NVQ) or bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent knowledge with relevant hands-on experience.
11. Electrical qualification.
12. Excellent technical, analytical, and fault-finding skills.
13. Proven continuous improvement skills.
Benefits:
* Bonus up to £1200
* Pension
* 33 days holidays
* Progression Opportunities
* Private Healthcare
* Overtime available
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