Maintenance Engineer

£46,554 + weekend bonus - £45 every Saturday 7 Sunday worked (exc. OT) 

Wolverhampton

2days/2nights four off 

The Company:

My client have been successfully manufacturing for years. Boasting one of the best reputations for hiring maintenance engineers and keeping hold of them. They are constantly innovating and bringing new ideas to the market, this has enabled them to grow from strength to strength and are currently expanding. They are looking for an electrically biased maintenance engineers, they will provide an unbeatable training including PLC training and on-going support to take you the next level of your electrical career.

Some of the machinery you will be working on as the maintenance engineer:

PLC's (Siemens S7)
Drives (Siemens)
Motors (AC/DC)
Sensors (Proximity, Photo cell, & Fibre Optic) o Induction Heating Unitso Overhead Gantry Cranes (Morris, Granada)
Industrial Melting & Holding Furnaces (Gas & Electric) Schumag M/C's (Drawing & Spinner Blocks)
Plastic Extrusion Machines
Conveyors/Roller Beds
extrusion presses
casting plant
draw benches
Brand new refining site
spinning machines

Benefits for the maintenance engineer:

23 days holiday

5% matched pension

Overtime paid at a premium

Experience required for the maintenance engineer:

Qualified to level 3 (NVQ/C&G) in an electrical discipline

at least 3 year's experience maintaining/repairing special purpose machinery as an electrically biased maintenance engineer

Good electrical competence - wire and fault find on 3-phase motors, knowledge of contactors, sensors relays etc

PLC knowledge is desirable

Any maintenance engineer from manufacturing or ex-forces welcome to apply - FMCG, Food, plastic, packaging, Pharmaceutical, foundry, brick, distribution, automotive, metals, RAF, Navy, army, military, etc