Role: Maintenance Engineer
Salary: £48,800 per annum (plus overtime)
Location: Milton Keynes
Shifts: 4 on 4 off, 5 on 5 off, combination of days and nights
Benefits: Pension Scheme 6% matched contribution, private health care (including dental and optical), lifestyle discounts, externally recognised training opportunities
The Company
I am currently working with KNAPP UK on an exclusive basis at their flag ship site in Milton Keynes hiring Maintenance Engineers.
KNAPP are a true leader in the world of automation. They are the 3rd largest systems integrator in the world with over 6,000 employees operating in over 60 countries! KNAPP are now turning over a billion pounds worldwide and their market continues to grow year after year. As a business they can offer lots of progression opportunities, job-security and training and development. They provide solutions for some of the largest household brands including John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Boots, The Very Group and many more. KNAPP invest heavily in Research and Development, priding themselves on first class service to all their customers.
KNAPP UK are forever evolving the way they develop, deliver and support their customers to ensure they fulfil their customers’ demands. They do this through using the latest state of the art technology including OSR shuttle systems, hanging garments, various pick and place robotics and a range of other automation.
At this site in Milton Keynes, they boast a 70+ strong engineering function creating a strong team environment where Engineers never have two days the same. The structure of the site means you will have the opportunity to progress into a leadership role, if you want to, or simply be a great technician following your passion on the tools and keeping the site running as effectively as possible. As this is currently the largest site within the KNAPP UK portfolio, with a vast amount of equipment on site, you can rest assured you will be keeping up with the modern world of automation as they constantly develop and evolve.
The Role
Your day-to-day responsibilities as a Maintenance Engineer will include:
- The planned and reactive maintenance and service of all the state-of-the-art equipment on site - OSR shuttle systems, hanging garments, various pick and place robotics and various conveyor systems.
- Mechanically you will mainly be replacing worn out parts on the conveyors which will include rollers, bearings and pulleys.
- Electrical work will include reading through electrical schematics, utilising electrical test equipment such as multi-meters and fault finding on panels.
- You will also be swapping both electrical and mechanical components like for like with the requirement at times to strip and re-build equipment.
The Person
To be successful in your application for a Maintenance Engineer you will need:
- An electrical or mechanical qualification
- Maintenance experience in a production, manufacturing or warehousing environment.
- Alternatively, you could be from the Navy, Army or RAF with an electrical qualification.
The Benefits
As a Maintenance Engineer, you should expect:
- You will be joining a highly successful company who can offer a massive amount of stability and job-security.
- Opportunity for progression both technically, or alternatively, through their leadership program
- KNAPP will contribute up to 6% pension
- Private healthcare with Aviva including dental and optical cover
- Medicash – a cash back medical benefit scheme covering day to day expenses such as prescriptions/flu-jabs
- Lifestyle discounts at retailers, restaurants and gyms
- There’s a learning portal with lots of free/low-cost courses to develop you technically or personally
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee referral scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee of the Quarter awards
- Fantastic salary and benefits package.
- £48,800 per annum plus overtime available.
As an award-winning company (see below for details of KNAPP’s accolades), their ambition is to become the employer of choice in logistics and automation and to help them deliver this, there are five core values that underpin everything they do - Reliability, Courage, Openness, Appreciation and Creativity. These values and the KNAPP spirit are demonstrated by all employees and the open corporate culture leads to great communication, creative freedom and the active involvement of employees in decision making.
Awards:
THE UK'S Q4 BEST LARGE COMPANIES TO WORK FOR 2022
TECHNOLOGY'S TOP 75 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR 2022
ONE TO WATCH GOOD TO WORK FOR 2022
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