The role of Shift Engineer is a varied one, covering maintenance services across a wide range of plant and equipment within the manufacturing facility. You will be involved with CI activities as well as day to day shift engineering duties.
The company is a leading manufacturer in their field and are a long-standing well-known business based in Driffield.
They operate a 2 weekly rotating shift pattern. Working days and nights, 12 hours shifts covering Monday to Sunday.
They offer excellent training and development opportunities for their engineering team.
The Shift Engineer role:
- Maintain service and repair plant machinery to minimise production down time.
- Reactive and PPM duties. Electrical and Mechanical.
- Ensure faults, breakdowns or issues are logged and reported correctly.
- Carry out fault finding and repair of equipment and facilities.
- Promote risk assessments to ensure safe systems of working.
- Willingly take up opportunities for training in specialist plant and equipment.
- Seek out and highlight opportunities for continuous improvement, production efficiencies and cost effectiveness.
- Support and conduct regular inspections and testing.
The Candidate:
- A background in manufacturing environments, ideally with good exposure to both manual and automated production equipment
- Understanding of continuous improvement initiatives
- Awareness of PLC systems. PLC control experience to a fault finding level
- Good experience of managing safety in your daily activities
- Strong team working capabilities
- Experience working with CMMS platforms
- Experience in identifying improvement projects
- Formal EH&S qualification (IOSH/NEBOSH)
- HNC (or equivalent)
Ideally you will have a high level of knowledge, and practical experience in instrumentation loops, calibration techniques & control systems
This role is suited to candidates looking to join a company that offer long term opportunities to challenge yourself, develop and grow.
What's on offer?
£38,000 per year
- Excellent opportunities for career growth and development
- Supportive and collaborative work environment
- Chance to work on a variety of challenging and rewarding projects
- A work pattern that offers flexibility for home/work balance
- Overtime paid at time and a half