Plant Maintenence Engineer

MCB-DEAE
Derby, Derbyshire, England
£55k - 57k per year
Contract
Automation
  • Job Title: Plant Maintenance Engineer
  • Location: Derby area
  • Rotating Shifts Only 2 Nights every 8 days on the shift cycle
  • Pay Range: Up to £57kK plus overtime
  • Contract Type: Contract to Permanent
  • industry: Process and Chemicals Manufacturer

Our client is a large Global  manufacturer with a global footprint. It is an established site with an established LONG SERVING engineering team. Staff retention is excellent. Training, development, and support is provided on a manufacturing site. You will help the site make high-quality processed products.

We have a  vacancy is for a Mechanical  Bias maintenance engineer to focus on plant and process maintenance areas.

Key Responsibilities – Plant Maintenance Engineer

  • Your new challenge will be providing effective and efficient planned, preventative and breakdown maintenance to minimise losses to production
  • Leading electrical and instrumentation, repair, and working with s CMMS.
  • Diagnosis, resolution, and elimination of root causes of mechanical engineering faults
  • Design, trial, and implementation of minor equipment modifications in support of increased performance
  • Completion of all scheduled, planned corrective, reactive and improvement maintenance as allocated.
  • Contribute to the planning and implementation of allocated annual equipment overhauls.

Qualifications & Requirements – Plant Maintenance Engineer

  • Apprentice trained or NVQ level 3 in a mechanical  engineering discipline in maintenance engineering
  • Manufacturing Industry experience, multi-skilled with mechanical Bias Ideal
  • Fitting, Fabricating and Welding experience preferred 
  • Expereince of Pumps, Valves, Process equipment ideal
  • A proactive approach to fault finding, a commitment to continuous improvement and personal development

What we can offer – Plant Maintenance Engineer

  • Work at a striving  world-class, award-winning site
  • Automated facilit
  • Subsidised Canteen
  • 10% pension
  • Free onsite parking
  • Reaward and Recignition schemes 

For more information on this role, please contact Mike Butler on 0113 2123519 or send a copy of your CV to [email protected]

Candidates who are currently a multi-skilled engineer, mechanical engineer, manufacturing engineer, maintenance fitter, mechancial biased engineer, Fitter, plant fitter, maintenance engineer, shift engineer or maintenance engineer may be suitable for this position.

Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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