Role: Maintenance Engineer
Location: Aylesford, Kent
Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am-5pm
Starting Salary: £40,000 p/a + Overtime. 

Benefits:

• 25 Days Annual Leave + 8 Bank Holidays.
• Regular overtime paid at £325 per shift for holiday cover, shutdowns and seasonal peaks.
• 10.5% Company Pension (7% Employer contribution)
• Private Healthcare including dental treatment and life assurance.
• Free company welfare incentives such as massages, cycle to work schemes and great facilities such as nice canteen area with free fruit and discounted healthy meals.

The Business

Auxtronic is partnered with a leading manufacturer and distributor of vitamins, proteins, premixes and ingredients for the food, beverage and nutrition industries globally. 

With an impressive £500m in annual turnover, our client is continuing with their expansion and to facilitate further customers orders, is looking to increase headcount within the engineering team. 

Due to this we have an exciting opportunity for a Night Shift Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to support their modern site in Aylesford which is both a highly automated FMCG manufacturing plant and a distribution centre.

Machinery: Conveyors, mixers, ovens, separators, sorters, vision inspection machines, X-rays, various packaging machinery, case makers, palletisers, flow wrappers, robots and other more bespoke machinery.

The Role: Maintenance Engineer

• Breakdown maintenance involving fault finding and rectification.
• Planned preventative maintenance and routine servicing. 
• Facilities maintenance across the site.
• Project work installating mechanical and electrical equipment.
• Contractor control and management.

Entry Requirements:

• City & Guilds, NVQ or BTEC Level 3 in Electrical or Mechanical Maintenance ideally gained through a recognised apprenticeship.
• 5 Years of experience as a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer within a high speed manufacturing environment, ideally Food or FMCG. 
• Electrical and Mechanical skills required with a competency in fault finding and repairing machinery. 

About Auxtronic
Auxtronic is a leading recruitment specialist that partners with blue chip manufacturers and highly technical systems integrators within the fields of engineering and automation. The industries we are most connected to include Food & Beverages, Distribution, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Aggregates and Robotics across the UK & Europe. 

We welcome the opportunity to discuss exciting career prospects with new and existing clients in the fields of electrical and mechanical engineering, contact our team of specialists to discuss your next challenge.

Auxtronic is a third party employment consultant on behalf of our longstanding client and is a committed equal opportunities employer, encouraging people from all walks of life to trust us with their career advances.

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