Shift Engineer (Electrical Biased)
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,000 to £55,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 June 2025 |
| Location: | Northamptonshire , Northamptonshire, NN3 6XJ |
| Company: | Hunter Selection Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SE26339_1748945409 |
Summary
Shift Engineer (Electrical Biased)
Northamptonshire (NN3)
Commutable from - Kettering, Northampton, Rugby, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Corby, Daventry
£55,000 + Overtime
12hr Shifts - 2 Days / 2 Nights / 4 Off (Work 7 cycles then get 18 days off)
Benefits:- Private Pension, Life Assurance X4, EAP, Discounts Platforms
Our client is a leading packaging manufacturer, part of a multi-billion-pound global group, with a reputation for product quality which is second to none and industry leading standards. Due to engineering departmental growth, they are looking for an electrical biased shift engineer.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Electrical & mechanical maintenance, PPM's, and repairs
- Working on a variety of high-speed production & packaging machinery, conveyors, automation & controls, plant machinery and robotics
- Part of a close knit team that is growing & developing
- An exciting challenge for someone that is looking to help develop the existing engineering function
- Dealing with motors, drives, PLC's, hydraulics, pneumatics, sensors, gearboxes
- Project work - new machine installs, upgrades & continuous improvement work
- Assisting with developing new PPM's, helping with the new asset care management systems
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
- Must be an electrical biased engineer
- Be comfortable with working on mechanical or electrical problems / faults
- Have a positive approach and attitude, an understanding that the site is going through a redevelopment stage, want people to come on board for the journey
- Confident and able to work on own initiative, sometime unsupervised
- Strong communicator, analytical, self-motivated with a can do, get stuck in attitude
- Must have a minimum of 5 years' experience working in a maintenance engineering position
- Time-served apprenticeship
- Hold electrical qualifications, NVQ Level 3 or higher
- Must have worked in a fast-paced production environment - FMCG, food, packaging, automation
- Experience of working with PLC's, motors, drives, automation systems
- Previously have worked in a strongly preventative maintenance environment
To apply please email your CV / resume to chrisg@hunterselection.co.uk / 01908 010 438
If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.
Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.
Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.