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Due to retirement, an opportunity has arisen for a maintenance engineer to join a nationwide FMCG company in Stoke-on-Trent. 

This position would be perfect but not essential for an electrically bias maintenance engineer who has experience within a food manufacturing environment. My client boasts great attrition rates and are keen on training and developing their engineer’s skills. 

Maintenance Engineer Benefits:

• £51,000
• Shift cover rates (+£85 per shift). 
• 14% Pension (4% your contribution / 10% their contribution).  
• 22 days holiday. 
• Cycle to work. 
• Discounted products. 
• Access to health and dental services. 
• X4 death in service. 
• Employee assistance programmes. 
• Training and development (PLC courses etc). 

Maintenance Engineer Duties include:

• Continental shift (2 days – 2 nights).  
• Planned and reactive maintenance. 
• Improving and maintaining production equipment. 
• Updating CMMS. 
• Fault diagnostic and repair. 
• Continuous improvement projects. 

Maintenance Engineer Requirements include: 

• Recognised electrical qualifications. 
• Electrical fault finding. 
• Must be able to interpret electrical drawings. 
• PLC knowledge (advantageous). 
• Food / FMCG experience (advantageous). 
• Willingness to learn new skills. 

Please apply find out more about this fantastic role. 

This Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Stoke-on-Trent, Market Drayton, Crewe, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford, and surrounding areas. 

Contract Instrumentation Technician – Required for an Immediate Start 

Benefits Available for a Contract Instrumentation Technician

• Negotiable Hourly Rate 
• Paid Overtime for all Additional Hours
• Day Working Monday – Friday

Duties of a Contract Instrumentation Technician 

• As a Contract Instrumentation Technician, you will be required to support our team of instrumentation technicians who calibrate and maintain our wide range of instrumentation equipment that is utilised in the monitoring of pressure, flow, temperature and Ph values. 
• The role is hands on but will require you to have experience of supporting junior technicians, maintaining equipment registers and planning projects from conception to final hand over. 

Requirements of a Contract Instrumentation Technician

• Ideally you will have gained your Instrumentation experience of supporting instruments within a heavy engineering or process environment and must have some experience of supporting staff. 
• You ideally you will be apprentice trained, however must qualified to a City & Guilds Part C / NVQ 3 standard within either pure Instrumentation or E&I disciplines. 

This Role is Commutable From: Blackheath, Dudley, Smethwick, Wednesbury, West Bromwich & Oldbury

We are seeking a talented Maintenance Electrician to join our team in the industry. If you have a passion for maintaining and improving equipment in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!

This is an opportunity to join and established organisation with 25+ years in the industry, working with an already established maintenance team. 

The Maintenance Electrician will be required to work the following Shift: Double Days – 6am till 2pm & 2pm till 10pm – Rotating weekly. 

The Maintenance Electrician roles is commutable from the following locations: Wigan / Bolton / Skelmersdale / Warrington 

Benefits the Maintenance Electrician will receive: 

• Pension Contribution up to 8%
• Healthcare 
• 22+8days holiday 
• Staff Discount 
• Food & Drink facilities 
• Plenty of Overtime 

Key Responsibilities for the Maintenance Electrician:  

• Perform scheduled and reactive maintenance on a range of equipment, including PLCs, textile machinery, and sewing equipment.
• Troubleshoot and resolve mechanical, electrical, and software issues effectively.
• Collaborate with production teams to minimize downtime and optimize equipment performance.
• Conduct regular inspections and preventative maintenance tasks to ensure equipment reliability.
• Document maintenance activities and assist in continuous improvement initiatives.

Experience and Qualifications the Maintenance Electrician will hold:

• Proven experience as a Maintenance Engineer in FMCG or textiles environments.
• Strong knowledge of PLC systems and control mechanisms
• Experience with: Hydraulics & Pneumatics, Conveyor systems, Sewing equipment. 
• Welding abilities: MIG / TIG / ARC 
• Able to read Engineering Drawings. 
• Hands-on experience with textile machinery and sewing equipment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work double days and adapt to changing priorities.
• Apprentice trained – holding a Level 3 – City & Guilds / NVQ in Electrical engineering 

Probe Technical Recruitment are recruiting a great opportunity for a proven Maintenance Electrician to join a well-respected employer within the Food Engineering sector. As a Maintenance Electrician you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance across the plant. This will require you to have experience of supporting plant and equipment within either a fast-paced manufacturing, process, food or production environment and be comfortable in undertaking facilities maintenance work too.

Benefits:

Along with a continental shift pattern of 4 days 4 off 4 nights 4 off 6-6, the Maintenance Electrician role also has a package of:

• Salary £38,000 (hourly rate is £17.50) 
• Paid Overtime at Premium Rates
• Company Pension at 3% company and 5% employee 
• 20 Holiday days 
• Stable Working Environment.

You must be an Electrically qualified Maintenance Engineer or Maintenance Electrician and hold Electrical abilities and some exposure to supporting PLC controls including Siemens S7.

The role of Maintenance Electrician is commutable from Tamworth, Burton on Trent, Derby and Leicester.

If you have hesitated about moving over the past few months, this is a great opportunity to join an organisation that won’t be affected by any potential fallout from the current economic climate. 

Due to expansion, we are seeking to recruit proven Maintenance Supervisor, to support our onsite maintenance team. 

Our company has a respected and established presence in the region for many years, with a low staff turnover we pride ourselves on creating a supportive and stable working environment for our employees and we don’t work shifts !

Benefits Available for a Maintenance Supervisor: 

• Starting Salary of c£50,000 
• Paid Overtime at Premium Rates
• Day Working (Mon – Fri) 
• Employer Pension Contribution 
• 33 Days Holiday
• Early Friday Finish

Duties of a Maintenance Supervisor  

As a Maintenance Supervisor you will be required to lead the maintenance team on a daily basis, ensuring that PM’s are undertaken to schedule whilst also managing breakdown situations, which will require you to have experience of supporting plant and equipment within either a manufacturing, process or production environment. 

Requirements of a Maintenance Supervisor 

You must have gained your experience from working within a manufacturing or production environment with experience of either supervising or managing a maintenance team, managed external contractors, issued permits and also managed a PM structure with the use of CMMS software. 

The role is commutable from: Aston, Birmingham, Edgbaston, Erdington, Harborne, Smethwick & Sutton Coldfield 

Probe Technical Recruitment are recruiting a very exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Electrician for a global manufacturer based near Rutland. We are looking for somebody to manage and assist in development and engineering projects at the site and to provide second line support to the Engineering team. You identify opportunities for improvements and make recommendations to improve machine and process effectiveness.

The benefits package for the Maintenance Electrician role include:

• Base salary would be £37,516.72, with the option of 208 hours contractual overtime giving an extra £5625.36, if the successful candidate wanted to start doing this after completion of their probation period. There could also be some negotiation on the base salary for the right candidate. 
• 33 days holiday
• Auto enrolment pension
• All PPE and training provided
• Company sick pay after one years service, increasing with length of service to a max 24 weeks        

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The key areas for Maintenance Electrician focus: 

• Timed served engineer, electrical bias
• Ideally, a good working knowledge of PLC and servo control systems
• Understand and be able to work with Pneumatics and Hydraulics
• Good computer skills, CAD systems, ideally Auto-Cad would be desirable.
• Have experience on installing and commissioning new pieces of equipment.

We would be very keen to talk to Maintenance Electricians or Development Managers that want to be back hands on based around the Stamford, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, and Grantham.