Job Description
***** All applicants must have the right to work in the UK *****
Company Description
BarthHaas UK is a part of the BarthHaas group of companies, which is the world's largest supplier of hops and hop products to some of the best breweries in the world. Our company is dedicated to the development, manufacture, and supply of advanced hop products that offer genuine advantages in brewing and many other applications.
Role Description
This is a full-time on-site role for a Maintenance Engineer at BarthHaas UK in Paddock Wood. The Maintenance Engineer will work closely with Production and be responsible for performing equipment maintenance, conducting maintenance engineering activities, and repairing and conducting preventive and reactive maintenance on machinery. The role will also involve electrical maintenance tasks. We would encourage you to use your Engineering skills and experience to develop solutions and support continuous improvement activities to optimise our processing performance. Part of the role will be supporting the Engineering Manager, and the projects team, with new equipment installation. This will involve an element of industrial wiring.
Qualifications
- 60/40 electrical bias preferred.
- Engineering qualification such as an apprenticeship with HNC, ONC or equivalent.
- 17th or 18th edition wiring regulations.
- Two shift system earlies and lates. Occasional weekends at overtime rates.
- Practical electrical and mechanical experience within a manufacturing environment.
- Be able to rapidly diagnose and resolve both electrical and mechanical control and instrumentation faults.
- Experience in working in a safe working environment. Permit to work, IOSH.
- Liaising with suppliers and third-party resources to carry our preventative and reactive maintenance.
Skills
You should have some experience in the majority of the following:
- Pumps (vacuum, diaphragm, centrifugal, other technologies)
- Motors and invertors
- Steam and condensate systems
- Pipework water, steam, air, pressured, chemical
- Compressed air and pneumatics
- Demineralization and reverse osmosis
- Ph. control, batch controllers, load cells
- Pressure systems and appreciation of the pressure systems regulations
- Food grade areas and appreciation of HACCP systems.
- Computer literate Outlook, Excel, Word etc