Role: Shift Engineer

Recruiter: Alaska Black

Location: Greater Manchester

Salary: £45,755

Contract: Permanent, Days Monday – Friday (6am-2pm/7am-3pm)

The company

Our client, one of the UK’s leading food manufacturers based in the Greater Manchester supply premium quality products to major retailers and premium food service providers.
Our clients’ products are synonymous with great taste, exciting innovation and value.
To continue to build upon their quality food safety vision they seek to recruit a hardworking, positive, and enquiring individual who will challenge the norm to continually improve. 

The role

Based at our clients brand new state of the art site in Greater Manchester reporting into the Engineering Manager, you will take responsibility for engineering repair, corrective and planned preventative maintenance of the site.

You will be expected to react to the workload required to meet the day-to-day engineering tasks and activities required to ensure line performance is at its maximum with the guidance of the engineering manager.

The Engineer role will provide key operational support to the Engineering Manager to deliver performance and engineering KPI’s. You will be expected to escalate breakdowns in a timely manner and inform all stakeholders of the completion of work on any escalated incident. Working closely with the Engineering Management team to contribute and assist with the development of our people, processes and systems to deliver reliable and stable performance of the Engineering function.

The person

Our ideal candidate will have proven experience track record in an engineering and fault finding role gained from a FMCG environment (ideally the food industry), a good understanding of HACCP principles and ideally IEE qualification up to 18th edition wiring regulations, qualifications to NVQ level 3 (or equivalent, ONC mechanical/electrical engineering, BTEC level 3 in mechanical & electrical/electronic engineering), as well as the ability to work at pace.

Interested?

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About us

Alaska Black are recruitment specialists, recruiting nationally across all roles within FMCG, Finance, Human Resources and Senior Level Appointments.

We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that reflects our customer base and the communities in which we operate, creating an environment that enables everyone to fulfil their potential.