Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer

Refresco, the world’s leading independent soft drinks manufacturer is seeking an agile Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer to join our team in Nelson, Lancashire.  If you’re energized by working collaboratively in a fast-paced FMCG environment and enjoy working in a culture that’s always looking to improve and drive better performance, then Refresco is a great match for you!

You will play an important role in making sure some of the best-known drink’s brands in the UK are manufactured to the right quality and delivered on time to our many customers. Refresco is always changing, always innovating, always growing, creating endless opportunities for you to develop and grow your career with us in the future.

As a Maintenance Engineer at Refresco, you will be surrounded by a great group of engineering professionals alongside some receiving these company benefits including:

•            Competitive hourly rate + 7.6% shift allowance and premium rate overtime (1.5x of your basic salary).

•            Great work life balance by giving you an extended weekend every other week with Friday, Saturday and Sunday off shift due to the way our 42-hour average weekly continental shift pattern works.

•            Generous holiday entitlement (240 hours per annum) so you’ve got plenty of opportunity to take a break.

•            Occupational sick pay scheme which provides a generous sick pay amount dependent upon length of service, as well as enhances maternity and paternity schemes.

•            Access to employee benefit and wellbeing platform.

•            We are committed to developing all our employees on site so you’ll be mapped onto our training matrix, have your development areas identified to create your individual training plan so that we can ensure you’re constantly learning in your role.

•            And of course, we’ve got all the usual bits and pieces including pension scheme, free company car park, life assurance, and access to sports and social fund.

Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer (Either bias) – Nelson, Lancashire.

Salary: £53,272.96 + overtime paid at X1.5

Working Hours: 12-hour shifts (06:00-18:00, 18:00-06:00) on a two-week rotation of days and nights with every other weekend off!

Good company pension, overtime pay, employee discounts, life assurance.

About you:

We are looking for an experienced maintenance engineer (either biased) or a truly multi-skilled maintenance engineer. You’ll be an experienced engineer with a minimum L3 engineering qualification or an apprenticeship-trained Engineer who can rapidly diagnose and resolve problems and lead maintenance and continuous improvement activity too.

Candidates from an FMCG/food background would be highly desirable, however, we will consider candidates from other backgrounds. Ex-military are welcome to apply.

• Minimum L3 engineering qualification or time served
• Multi-skilled background – either biased
• Be confident enough to put forward new ideas and suggestions.
• Be accurate in your daily tasks and duties, paying great attention to detail.
• Experience working on processing equipment: pipework, pumps, silos, turning equipment
• If you have worked on the following manufacturer's equipment, this would be highly advantageous - Sidel, Tetra, Krones, KHS, Adpak, Sig etc

About The Role As a Maintenance Engineer at Refresco:

• Work closely with the Engineering Team Lead, taking responsibility for delivering a high-quality engineering service in support of the achievement of operational targets.
• Complete the full range of maintenance activities across the entire installed asset base within the area that they work.
• Rapidly diagnose and resolve both mechanical, electrical plus basic control & instrumentation faults.
• Complete all work allocated to a high standard having the ability to complete all maintenance tasks across the installed asset base.

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process

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