Maintenance Engineer

**Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical Bias)**
**Salary: £35,000 - £37,000 p/a + (Dependent on Experience)**
**Location: Brighouse**
**Shifts: 7:00am - 4:30pm Monday - Thursday, 7:00am - 11:00am Friday (40 Hours per Week) (+ 8 hours in the month worked over weekends)**
**Benefits: 22 + 8 Holidays. Parking. Pension.**
**Permanent**
Stafflex are currently working with a long-running well-established business, specialising in the production and manufacturing within liquid filling/FMCG. Our client is a proud supplier to some of Britain's largest supermarkets and their aim is to consistentlydeliver high quality produce. To help achieve this, we are currently looking to recruit a well-motivated and enthusiastic Maintenance Engineer - to join the team at the earliest opportunity.
**Job role**
The applicant should be looking to establish a long-term career with a long-standing business, in excellent working conditions as part of a close-knit team. The successful applicant will be welding, pipe fitting, fitting & repairing pumps & valves and diagnosing& repairing electrics and motors.
Day-to-Day responsibilities:

- Ensuring the production plant operates as efficiently as possible.
- Working to a weekly Maintenance Schedule, agreed to monthly by the Works Manager.
- Maintaining steam boilers and pressure vessels and organising checks by the boiler inspector.
- Performing Planned Preventative Maintenance Schedule.
- Implement strategies and procedures to improve reliability of plant.
- Ordering spare parts and working within costing budgets.
- Fitting new parts and monitoring machine changes.
- Checking and calibrating instruments.
- Completing Quality checks.
- Dealing with reactive maintenance.
- Responding to callouts.
- Preventing downtime by liaising with production/engineering colleagues or suppliers
- Dismantling machinery.
- Arrange for replacement machinery

**Minimum requirements**:

- 5+ Years' Experience within Maintenance.
- NVQ Level 3 in Mechanical Engineering (knowledge of Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Motors, Pumps and Gearboxes)
- Knowledge of Electrical Engineering
- Welding experience
- Pipe fitting knowledge.
- Experience in running and maintain
- Problem solving

**Desirable requirements**:

- FLT License

Due to the nature of the machinery, training is provided in specific areas but core experience in mechanical maintenance with knowledge of electrical maintenance is required.