MB926: Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Location: Bury St Edmunds
Salary: £40,000
Working Hours: Mon to Fri 8am to 4.30pm + Overtime opportunities
Company Benefits: Generous holiday allowance, Contributory pension scheme with life assurance, Employee share scheme, Employee shopping savings portal, Payment of Professional Fees
Overview
First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic refrigeration business who are looking to recruit a Electrically Biased Maintenance Engineer to support the upkeep and maintenance of their internal factory plant equipment. This is a permanent position located at their depot in Bury St Edmunds.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Carry out work assignments issued and maximize effectiveness of the shift at all times by ensuring efficient completion of tasks.
- Demonstrate a team approach with regard to maintenance and hygiene of equipment and support teams of Logistics.
- Provide support to the team during breaks and absences and work together to ensure completion of their duties.
- Follow all work instructions, procedures, job descriptions at all times.
- Ensure that all Work Orders, PM's issued to the shift are completed.
- Complete and check all necessary paperwork.
- Work with other functions as part of the manufacturing team to ensure efficient running of the site and carry out prioritised work as agreed.
- Carry out the assigned activities to meet operational targets; working with other functions to ensure mutual objectives are met.
- Compliance with Company policies, procedures and regulations (e.g. attendance, quality, safety, GMP's, etc.) and ensure these are followed to maintain the required standards (e.g. Food Safety, PPE, etc.).
- Resolve mechanical and/or electrical problems in a timely fashion.
- Order spare parts as required on shift if unavailable from stock and contact contractors/suppliers as required to resolve problems on shift.
- Ensure all parts removed from stores while on shift are booked out of stores in the correct way.
- Where necessary, initiate the purchase of parts or equipment by completing the relevant order requisition forms with relevant information.
- Provide the Engineering Manager with information on all engineering downtime attended on shift, related quality issue, work orders completed, PM's completed and other details as required.
- Identify and analyse problems before crises and determine appropriate action and follow up.
- Ensure remedial works on site is raised by work order or PM's are highlighted to the Manager.
- Work closely with Logistics teams, work under supervision of engineering managers, and ensure that handovers are smooth and efficient whilst sharing relevant information with other engineers.
- Request/give information from/to the Engineering Manager.
- Capable of instructing un‑skilled/semi‑skilled people in simple operations of equipment.
- Use of power tools, drills, grinders, cutting equipment, saws, files, presses.
- Use of ladders, steps, walkways.
- May have to work with hot/cold equipment using suitable safe systems of work and/or PPE.
Skills and Qualifications
- Previous manufacturing / processing / warehouse / cold‑store industry experience.
- Electrical bias, electrical qualifications / time served apprenticeship.
- 4 years experience.
- A good standard of both written and oral English.
- Basic Health & Safety.
- Data and analytical skills.
- Computer literate (Word/Excel/Windows based packages).
Desirable skills
- PLC knowledge.
- Working on hydraulic systems.
- Working on temperature control systems.
- Working with instrumentation systems.
- Welding experience.
- FLT/MEWP license.
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