Multi-Skilled Engineer

Bird Bros Eggs Ltd

Celebrating 50 years as glorious as our eggs! East Anglia's leading egg producer and supplier, processing more than 200 million eggs a year for our customers.

We're always looking for reliable, enthusiastic & dedicated people to add something special to our team of around 70 employees.

A vacancy has become available at our Packing Centre in Bedfordshire as;

Multi-Skilled Engineer

The role;

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer to join a progressive and well invested family company specialising in egg production and packing.

This role will include day-2-day planned preventative maintenance (PPM) to manufacturers programme and reactive maintenance of equipment used to pack high volumes of produce including egg packing machinery, pick & place robots and other production equipment.

Main duties;

• Carry out preventative, reactive and reliability related maintenance tasks
• Adopting a continuous improvement mentality
• Use of computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) for logging work
• Employing initiative and decision making for the benefit of safe production
• Assisting in the installation and commissioning of new machinery
• Actively promote our Health & Safety culture

About you;

• Be qualified to ONC, NVQ Level 3 or higher in an electrical or mechanical subject or a Nationally recognised apprenticeship in maintenance engineering with 3+ years experience
• Have a flexible attitude to changing workflows
• Be a self starter and self motivated
• Willing to work as part of a team or on your own
• Positive and can do attitude
• Strong interest in solving technical problems
• Good communication skills
• Be willing to work under pressure at times
• Our business has a strong continuous improvement culture- you should be willing to be part of this
• IOSH qualification desirable but not essential

The working week; Monday to Friday (7.30am - 4.30pm), overtime at enhanced rates

What we are offering;

• Salary: Dependent on experience and suitability for role.
• External training opportunities
• 29 days holiday per year inclusive of bank holidays.
• Free eggs each week!
• 'Auto enrolment' / Company pension scheme