Maintenance Engineer - Bury St Edmunds

at  National Milk Records

The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Maintenance Engineer - Electrical / Mechanical
Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK,
Shift: 40Hrs per week - Monday to Friday operating a 3-shift pattern. 2 weeks of 8am - 4pm followed by 1 week 6am – 2pm, and 1pm-9pm. On-call rota for 1 in 4 covering out of hours including weekends.
Are you an engineer with experience in a heavy equipment, plant or FMCG environment?
If so, join our team today!
You will join a small onsite team where we prioritise the safety of our people and put you at the heart of what we do.
Being part of this team not only gives you that family feel but you will also join our internal community of Engineers, giving you access to support on fault resolution and spare parts from within. If we can’t fix it no one can!

ABOUT US

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

To be successful we are looking for the following knowledge, skills, and experience:

• Apprenticeship trained, HNC (or equivalent) or time served Engineer – ideally multi-skilled Engineer.
• Experience of working with maintenance systems.
• City & Guilds Electrical qualification desired
• Good H&S knowledge in legislation and application (IOSH qualification, desirable) with a safety-first focus.
• Desirable if experience but training can be provided.
• Confined Space
• Welding/Fabrication Qualifications
• 18th Editio

• Overall maintenance of the site including both reactive and planned maintenance tasks, fault finding, and small improvement projects, minimising plant downtime
• Supporting the Engineering Manager to ensure health and safety, feed safety and Quality standards are never compromised.
• Ensure all work is risk assessed and carried out on safely isolated equipment.
• PPM tasks in accordance with the agreed schedule. In line with our CMMS - Agility
• Be proactive in cooperation with the Operators to agree equipment downtime and availability for maintenance tasks.
• Assist the Engineering Manager in ensuring that adequate spare parts are held in stock by keeping the stores area organised and reporting parts used and ordering from suppliers.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by highlighting/identifying cost saving initiatives or process improvements.
• Assist with Control of Contractors, Permits to Work etc.

To be successful we are looking for the following knowledge, skills, and experience:

• Apprenticeship trained, HNC (or equivalent) or time served Engineer – ideally multi-skilled Engineer.
• Experience of working with maintenance systems.
• City & Guilds Electrical qualification desired
• Good H&S knowledge in legislation and application (IOSH qualification, desirable) with a safety-first focus.
• Desirable if experience but training can be provided.
• Confined Space
• Welding/Fabrication Qualifications
• 18th Edition