Job Description

Cogent Staffing are looking to recruit a Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer on a permanent basis. You must be qualified and apprentice trained and ideally hold at least 4 years\' employment experience in a relevant position.

Our client are a well-established manufacturing business in Bradford and hold great company values, they are looking to add to their team and employ a forward thinking, professional maintenance engineer to get involved with their hands on machine maintenance requirements and project work.

Package:

Permanent role
06:00-14:00 and 14:00-22:00 shifts rotating fortnightly
Ad hoc overtime
Competitive salary from \xc2\xa345,000 depending on experience
Free car parking, local fuel stations and eateries
Private medical insurance
Critical illness cover
Competitive pension package

The role:

Ensuring all plant is available through preventative and reactive maintenance.
Drive engineering excellence by establishing site standards and safe operating practices, ensuring comprehensive planning, data capture, effective issue resolution, knowledge sharing and learning.
Building competence and commitment to continuous improvement.
Select, brief & manage the performance of contractors and preferred suppliers, ensuring robust operational & engineering resilience plans for key areas of the plant.
Work closely with Operations colleagues to ensure that the business has an industry-leading plant, creating sustainable market advantage & growth opportunities, optimising industry reputation and safeguarding key customer relationships.
Develop the plant maintenance to meet future business & customer needs, optimising plant uptime and productivity through smart & proactive engineering, including the implementation of critical spares plans to mitigate major downtime risk.
Be continuously aware of industry best-practice and trends in engineering excellence, continuously innovating, raising the bar and setting new standards.
Investigating operational problems affecting production.
Improving existing operations, bringing in new methods and processes.
Work with SHEQ to develop safe systems of work within engineering i.e. PTW, LOLER.
Be involved in CAPEX purchases decisions and expansion projects.
Installation and commissioning of new machinery
Fault finding root cause analysis
Workshop on-site - machining and fabrication of parts on site.
Experience working with Lean manufacturing philosophy - 5s or Kanban.

The candidate:

Must be a trained Maintenance Engineer with at least 4 years employment experience in a similar role.
Trained in both mechanical and electrical engineering processes with electrical bias.
Holds relevant electrical qualifications.
Has come from an FMCG background with fast paced production lines.
Reactive / PPM split = 50 /50
Installation and commissioning of new machinery
Fault finding root cause analysis
Experience working on automation and PLC.
Workshop on-site - machining and fabrication of parts on site.
Experience working with Lean manufacturing philosophy - 5s or Kanban.
Have a thorough understanding of the manufacturing process.
A positive \'can do\' attitude
Work well with a wide range of people.
Be able to plan and prioritise tasks.
Be good at analysing and solving problems.
Have good communication skills.
Have strong numerical skills.
Understand the importance of health and safety.

Cogent Staffing is an equal opportunities recruiter, and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation, or age.

Cogent Staffing