Multi Disciplined Maintenance Engineer

Job Title: Maintenance Engineer (Multi-Discipline)

Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK

Contract / Shift: Permanent - Days, with occasional nights to cover holiday / Sickness.

Premier Nutrition are the number 1 provider of vitamin premix to UK pet and farm food manufacturers. We are driven to make a difference on farm, in business and for our industry. We work closely with our customers, so we can take the intelligence and science behind nutrition and turn it into practical solutions that enable their businesses to grow.

To remain at the top of our industry we are committed to the investment of our staff & our products and have recently expanded to a brand new multi-million-pound facility, with state-of-the-art equipment.

This is a fantastic opportunity to become a valued member of a highly skilled Maintenance Team working with brand new state-of-the-art automation in a fast-growing area of our business.

Responsibilities:

• The role of the Multi-Disciplined Maintenance Engineer / Technician is to provide first class customer support to the Operations team.
• Performing Preventive Maintenance activities, responding effectively to breakdowns, monitoring equipment performance and providing valuable input to help maintain process yields and efficiencies.
• Flexibility in working across our two sites (Rugeley and Fradley) and supporting the other members of the team, working weekends and overtime when required.
• Provide assistance to the Projects Team in implementing changes to equipment.
• Continuous Improvement is an important part of our site’s culture, so you will also have the opportunity to propose or contribute to initiatives and projects that improve our operations.

About you:

• Experience of Maintenance Engineering within a safety critical environment, specifically have experience and skills in fault finding and problem solving on high volume and high-tech equipment, such as PLC’s, packing lines, mixers, compressors.  
• Ability to read and understand technical drawings and have the ability to work on electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic equipment.
• Hold an Engineering Maintenance Apprenticeship qualification or similar (multi-skilled or cross-skilled)
• Electrical / Electronic / Mechanical diagnostic and development capability
• Significant experience in a similar environment preferably with working knowledge of working within a mill / food environment, fault diagnostics, analysis and countermeasure implementation including multi skilled working practices and capabilities.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety in the workplace
• Proof of ability to plan effectively for both projects / maintenances.
• Able to work in confined spaces.
• Able to work at height.

Additional DESIRABLE criteria:

• Continuous Improvement qualification
• Experience of PLC fault-finding
• Experience of DC Motor control
• IPAF License (or similar)
• Forklift Truck license.
• 18^th Edition IEE wiring regulations
• Electrical inspection and test

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

About us

Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the worlds leading nutritionists.

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.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.