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WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU? • Permanent role – Durham location, • £48,500 per annum – plus annual profit related profit bonus scheme (Annual earnings typically exceed £55K), • Continental Shift Pattern (1 week off per month within rotation), • 26 days holiday plus 7 bank holidays (pro-rata), • Mini health care package, • Pension scheme, • Readily available overtime, • Opportunity to work for a market leader, • Company making large site investments to enhance production and improve automation THE BUSINESS Westray Recruitment Group is seeking an Electrically Biased Maintenance Technician on a permanent contract. The role is based in Durham and centres on a 12-hour continental shift pattern. The shift pattern enables 1 week off per month within the rotation and you also work less weekends over the course of a calendar year compared to the traditional 4 on 4 off system. This provides a very healthy work life balance for the role. We are representing a truly world class manufacturer who are investing over £65M in their manufacturing site, adding the latest technologies and specialist production machinery to its armoury. The organisation has a very healthy order book, they are a market leader, they can provide long term job security and they can offer career pathways. The site is growing, they are highly successful and the organisation is without doubt on the up. The business invests in its’ people and they are huge advocates for training & development. As they deal only in UK markets, they are Brexit proof. This incredible organisation places its workers at the core in everything they do holding values of excellence, honesty & integrity, community spirit, collaboration & communication at the very heart of the business. It is an excellent time to join the organisation with the new technologies and state of the art equipment currently being introduced to site. This is a heavy plant setting, but it centres on producing products in high volume. The plant is fast paced. You must be open to working both indoors and outdoors with the elements. THE ROLE • Operating within a high-volume manufacturing facility, • Working to maintain plant site facilities, • Performing asset strip down and repair, • Working to maintain automated production lines, • Working in a shift team consisting of 3 people electrical/mechanical/lead., • Optimising manufacturing processes – improving efficiencies, reducing wastage, enhancing yield and reducing cost, • Fault finding and repairing large complex electrical equipment, • Working with PLC systems to perform fault finding and analysis, • Working to deliver planned and reactive maintenance, • Updating maintenance schedules and creating reports THE PERSON • Time served recognised Electrical Apprenticeship, • Educated to ONC/HNC equivalents – Electrically Biased Maintenance Technician, • Able to undertake fault finding and diagnostic work – proficient with the use of PLC’s, • Able to work with hydraulics, pneumatics, conveyors, motors, gears, pumps, valves, etc, • Able to effectively identify and resolve manufacturing issues, • Holding multi skilled capabilities including bench skills, basic fabrication and basic welding, • Proficient with IT, • Excellent communicator, • Able to abide by H&S TO APPLY Please apply for this position and your CV will go direct to our Engineering Consultant Tony Hutchinson who is leading the search. Alternatively, if you have any questions, please get in touch with Tony at Westray Recruitment Group

Westray Recruitment Group is seeking to recruit to a Multi-Skilled Electrician to work a set shift pattern for our client in the Durham area. WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU? • Permanent role, • £43k pa (inc. OTE), • 36 days holiday (inc. bank holidays), • 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, • Work from home opportunities, • Excellent health cash plan for you and your family, • Savings/discounts on gym memberships, major retailers, travel, cinema and more, • Generous Pension scheme THE BUSINESS Westray Recruitment Group is seeking to recruit a Multi Skilled Electrician to join our client’s maintenance team who are based in the Durham area. You will be responsible for undertaking all electrical repairs and associated multiskilled repairs to both domestic and commercial properties to a high-quality standard whilst delivering an excellent customer service. Our client provides excellent housing and services throughout the North East. They are one of the country’s leading housing providers. Their values, culture and way of doing business is extremely important to them. Equality and diversity are fundamental to the way they deliver services, and perform as an employer. You would be working for an extremely employee focussed business, who puts its people central to every decision they make. They hold held the Investors in People Gold Award. THE ROLE • You will work within the maintenance teams supporting the Maintenance and Construction Dept, • You will be responsible for undertaking all electrical repairs, and associated multiskilled repairs to both domestic and commercial properties, • You will take pride in your work to ensure it is carried to a high-quality standard, • You need a sound working knowledge of the wider building construction sector, understanding components, materials, building trades and applicable regulations, • You will engage with all stakeholders of the service, promoting the business across communities THE PERSON • You will have a flexible approach and experience of working in a domestic and commercial property maintenance environment, • You must have excellent customer service skills to be successful in this role, • You can demonstrate experience of working in a customer focussed environment, • You will hold an NVQ/City of Guilds qualifying you as an electrician, • You will hold the 18th Edition, Testing & Inspection, • You must have a full driving licence for this role TO APPLY Please apply for this position and your CV will go direct to our Engineering team who are leading the search. Alternatively, if you have any questions, please get in touch with Harry Mann at Westray Recruitment Group.

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