£45000 - £50000 per annum + OTE Bedfordshire

Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer
Bedfordshire

£45,000 – £50,000

Monday-Friday 3-Shift (6-2 / 2-10 / 10-6) + Weekend Call-Out Cover

Our client is a leading FMCG & beverage manufacturer that is making a huge investment in the factory over the next 5 years. Due to this growth and new production lines being installed, they are looking to grow the engineering function with the addition of new senior engineers to lead the shift engineering team.

Role & Responsibilities:

Provide electrical & mechanical support & repairs for all production equipment & site services
Leading a team of 4 shift engineers
80% hands-on – fixing production machinery, mixers, industrial processing equipment, conveyors, packaging machinery, automation & controls, PLC’s, SCADA Systems, robots
20% hands-off – workload allocation, PPM planning, contractor management, risk assessment
Supporting the engineering shift managers with project work – new machine & production line installs
PPM’s, electrical & mechanical fault finding, problem solving, machine upgrades

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Must be an electrically biased engineer
Will consider experienced engineering team leaders / senior engineers / supervisors or engineers that are ready for the step-up in their career, proactive & driven characters
Apprenticeship trained or a time-served engineering with mechanical & electrical qualifications
Must have previously worked in food or FMCG manufacturing
Able to work well under pressure in a busy environment
Strong electrical & mechanical fault finding & problem solving skills
PLC – electrical fault finding – Siemens
Experience of carrying out CI projects, new machine installations
Happy to be a hands-on leader
Strong communicator, able to influence proactive change management
Experienced in planning & scheduling PPM work
Must be happy covering a weekend call-out / standby cover when needed (additional payments)

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