We are recruiting for a long established manufacturing company based in Southend on Sea for an electrical biased multiskilled maintenance engineer on a permanent basis to join their engineering team.The multi skilled engineer will be responsible for providing a responsive engineering service to the site manufacturing team, to ensure high levels of machine availability, reliability, safety and quality.

Other key elements of the role involve:

• Perform proactive machine maintenance in accordance to the PPM schedule.
• Identification and recovery of electrical and mechanical faults on all process machinery and ancillary equipment.
• Monitoring and adjusting equipment to ensure quality is maintained.
• Record and log maintenance requests and fault repairs.

Skills required for the multi skilled engineer:

• Previous experience in a manufacturing environment, in a reactive and PPM work.
• A recognised electrical qualification, time served apprenticeship, example City & Guilds or HNC
• Experience in mechanical engineering.
• A good understanding of PLC & computer control equipment.
• Competent electrical/electronic fault finding and analysis skills.
• Good understanding of Health & Safety legislation.
• Excellent computer skills - Excel, Word etc.

Other skills and qualifications, would be beneficial but not essential:

• 18th Edition
• Experience in Welding, using MIG & TIG.

Benefits:
• A competitive annual salary.
• 28 days holidays including bank holidays.
• Workplace pension.
• Training undertaken
• Off street parking

Working Hours:Monday to Friday - 7am to 4 pm with a half hour lunch, though hours can be flexible and by agreement.Basic salary £40k plus overtime premium paid when extra hours are worked Monday to Friday.