Maintenance Engineer

Shift  Engineer - Days 
Meals Wigan 

Salary £42,230
Shift pattern- Wednesday – Saturday / Thursday – Saturday 6am till 6pm. 3 on 4 off 4 on 3 off, Days. (42 hours per week)

Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group
 
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.
 
Bakkavor Meals, based in Wigan, specialises in making chilled ready meals, food to go salads and vegetable accompaniments and employs over 1,000 people. It is part of the Bakkavor Meals sector which has eight factories in the UK.

You will have a real flair for maintenance and be proactive with ideas for improving the plant and engineering departments and be able to demonstrate an aptitude and passion for engineering with experience gained in Food production or FMCG industries

Accountabilities 
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Shift Engineer (Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer – Electrical bias) to join the team to undertake planned preventative maintenance activities and reactive maintenance to ensure optimum efficiency of the plant.
 
You will provide full emergency breakdown cover for all plant and services while providing full support to the Engineering department in order to carry out all works in an efficient and economical manner.
 
About you

Ideally, you will be an electrically biased, multi-skilled engineer with PLC knowledge, preferably Allen Bradley and Siemens

Experience of working within the Food Industry

Computer literate

Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team

Skilled in both Electrical and Mechanical trades, ideally with an Electrical bias

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

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