Job Role: Maintenance Engineer – Electrical Bias

Location: Thrapston, Northamptonshire

Salary: £50,000-£52,000 per annum (inc shift allowance) + Overtime Available @ 1.5x

Hours: 4 on 4 off (2 days 6:00-18:00 / 2 nights 18:00-6:00) – 18 days off after every 7th rotation

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

The Company:

Interaction Technical have partnered with a well-established, market leading packaging firm based in Northamptonshire on their search for an electrical bias maintenance engineer to join their growing team. Our client has been established for well over 50 years and with sites dotted all over the globe, are now at a stage of considerable growth where they can add a highly skilled maintenance engineer to their shift maintenance team. If you are looking to join a market leading, global packaging firm with opportunity to progress further, please click ‘apply now’!

The Package:

Overtime available at 1.5X

Monthly KPI bonus – up to £100

Annual KPI Bonus – up to 10% of base salary

Company Pension scheme – 4.5% contributions

Healthcare scheme

Committed to ongoing training and development

On site parking

The Duties:

Carry out PPM’s and reactive maintenance / repair of packaging machinery (Conveyors, Motors, Gearboxes, Packaging Machinery, Corrugation Machinery & Ancillary Machinery).

Attend breakdowns on site machinery & promote continuous improvement methodologies.

Liaise with Engineering management & fellow engineers to resolve breakdowns efficiently, professionally & in a timely manner.

Follow company wide health & safety procedures.

Carry out electrical maintenance and repair on site, working with PLC controlled systems, single and three phase supplies.

The Requirements:

Minimum 5 years’ experience as a maintenance engineer in a packaging, manufacturing, FMCG or similar industry (essential)

A good balance of Mechanical/Electrical Fault Finding, Repairs with an electrical bias (essential)

Previous experience repairing & fault finding on components such as Motors, Gearboxes, Conveyor Systems, Converters, Inverters or PLCs (essential)

Apprentice trained with a minimum NVQ level 3 qualification within electrical/mechanical engineering (essential)

Understanding of Automated processes (advantageous)

An openness to learn, share practices & attend training courses when needed (advantageous)

Full UK Drivers License

Interaction Recruitment have specialist consultants across the majority of industries within the UK, including but not limited to, Finance & IT, Technical & Engineering, Industrial, Commercial and Hospitality. We offer both temporary and permanent support. For more information regarding the position or to discuss any other opportunities, you can reach Michael on (phone number removed) or email

Thank you for taking the time, we hope to speak in the near future

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