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Multi-Site Engineering Manager
£75000 - 80000 per year £7,200 Car Allowance
West Midlands
Multi-Site Engineering Manager Home Based (Midlands or North) £75,000 – 80,000 + £7,200 Car Allowance The Company We are recruiting in partnership with a leading systems integrator and services provider who design, manufacture and install bespoke automated materials handling systems for customers across a broad range of engineering and manufacturing sectors. The business are a global forces with operations throughout the globe and have seen their UK operation expand rapidly in the past decade. The business offer their customers on site maintenance and service expertise once their systems are installed building highly effective teams to ensure the systems are working effectively, maintained to the highest standards and repaired at speed when breakdowns occur. The business is now looking for a Multi Site Engineering Manager who will take accountability for overall performance for a number of their sites. The Role The Multi Site Engineering Manager will be overall responsible for the performance of several sites within their remit – each site will have a Site Manager/Site Lead that will report into the you directly and an onsite maintenance team working a pre agreed shift pattern to support the customer at site. Your key responsibilities will be: Managing assigned maintenance contracts including account management and budgetary control. Managing re-negotiation of maintenance contracts when necessary Developing the performance of resident sites identifying opportunities for continuous and performance improvement Ensuring each of your sites are performing at expected levels for Key metrics at sites including Health and Safety, PPM Completion and breakdown response. Developing relationships with key customers to further integrate services on offer Reporting on site performance at senior management meetings Supporting your sites with recruitment Being the escalation point for major customer and personnel issues The Candidate To be successful in your application for this Multi-Site Engineering Manager role you will need: Experience in a maintenance management, engineering management or service management type role with multi site responsibility. A first class attitude and approach towards customer service and engagement. To be someone who can create vision and inspire a team To be comfortable working with SAP or a relatable system To be able to make informed decisions under pressure. The Benefits For this Multi-Site Engineering Manager role the following benefits are on offer: £75,000 – 80,000 £600 per month car allowance Contributory Pension 25 days annual leave If you’re interested, please apply online for a speedy consideration. ATA Recruitment specialises in Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Civil, Transportation and general Engineering recruitment on both a permanent and contract basis – for more opportunities like this one, visit our website. By applying you accept the terms of our Privacy Notice which can be found on our website. ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
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Maintenance Engineer
£52000 - 53000 per year - Overtime paid at 1.5x weekdays, 2.0x Sundays - 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (256 total hours
Lutterworth
Maintenance Engineer – £53,137 – Lutterworth Shift Pattern: Panama (12-hour days and nights) We are recruiting a skilled Maintenance Engineer to join a highly automated logistics facility in Lutterworth. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a cutting-edge environment, supporting the maintenance of advanced machinery across an expansive site. Salary & Benefits: Basic salary: £42,833 + 24% shift allowance (Total: £53,137) Overtime paid at 1.5x weekdays, 2.0x Sundays 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (256 total hours) Private healthcare (family cover available) 5% pension contribution Death in service (3x salary) Subsidised canteen, showers, and recreation area on site Your Role As a Maintenance Engineer, you’ll be responsible for performing both planned and reactive maintenance on a variety of automated systems including pallet conveyors, robots, wrappers, and cranes. Your day-to-day will consist of tackling breakdowns, supporting continuous improvement, and ensuring the facility runs at peak efficiency. Key Responsibilities: Conduct planned preventative maintenance (PPM) React swiftly to unplanned maintenance issues Carry out mechanical and electrical fault-finding Maintain equipment such as drives, bearings, shafts, sensors, and relays Ensure accurate maintenance records are kept Work on machinery such as conveyors, palletisers, autostore units, and robotics Participate in ongoing training and development programmes What We’re Looking For You’ll be joining a large, skilled engineering team, so the ability to collaborate is essential. We’re looking for candidates who: Are apprentice trained with NVQ Level 3 (minimum) in a relevant discipline (electrical or mechanical) Have experience in maintenance roles, ideally in automated environments Are comfortable working at heights Demonstrate a proactive mindset and commitment to quality maintenance practices Have strong mechanical maintenance skills; electrical experience is beneficial Come from a background such as logistics, food, automotive, military or similar industries Why Apply? This is a rare opportunity to become part of a forward-thinking team with a real focus on personal growth and technical development. You’ll gain access to hands-on training, be involved in industry-leading maintenance practices, and have the chance to progress internally within the organisation. If you're ready to take your maintenance career to the next level, contact Faisal on 07788 365715, or send your CV to faisal.ahmedy@ata-recruitment.co.uk ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
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Maintenance Engineer
£52500 - 52500 per year Medical cover and Overtime
Leicester
Role: Maintenance Engineer Location: Leicester Shifts: Panama Salary: £52,500, Pension Contribution and private healthcare The Company My client design and manufacture automation for product retrieval and storage systems, they are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join the site in the Leicestershire area. This site has been there for 12 years and was my clients second site in the UK. This site is highly automated with over 120,000 products on the site moving products from A to B. My client have been established in the UK for over 20 years and in the UK across their sites they turn over nearly £100 million a year so if you are looking to work for a company with job security this could be the one for you. An initial 18 month fixed term contract with an opportunity to grow into various departments in the business. The Role As a Maintenance Engineer your day to day responsibilities will include: Joining a team of 10 engineers plus a Supervisor and Manager Your days will consist of different reactive and PPM tasks provided to you by an Ipad that is provided to help keep tasks logged etc There will be an opportunity to look into the continuous improvement with the role and have a look at various projects throughout the project Electrically you will be required to work safely, look into isolation, fault finding and swapping like for like components Mechanically you will be required to remove and replace components, look at pipe work working objects such as hydraulic and pneumatic systems, valves, pumps, bearings belts and more The Individual We are looking for a Maintenance Engineer that: Can work as a multi-skilled engineer Be confident communicating and working as part of a team An Engineer that holds a recognised qualification Perform independently when required and under pressure in certain scenarios Benefits As a Maintenance Engineer you will receive: £52,500 per annum A competitive pension contribution with private health care and many little incentives such as the cycle to work scheme, employee of the month and more A lot of overtime available on request ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
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Interim Environment Health & Safety Manager
£350 - 400 per day
Belfast
Interim Environment Health & Safety Manager Belfast / Portadown / Lisburn / Dungannon / Cookstown 3 month contract / Limited Co. (Outside IR35) £350.00 - £400.00p/d Manufacturing / Logistics / EHS / Materials Handling I am recruiting for a world leading manufacturing business who require an Interim Environment Health & Safety Manager. Initially there is a commitment of 3 months with a likelihood of extension. For the position of Interim EHS Manager, you will require to conduct the following daily duties: Managing Health, Safety and Environment Management systems and activities Conducting training and meetings communicating with Directors / General Manager Responding to incidents, reporting KPI’s & putting processes in place Lead auditor, weekly & monthly audits Working across 2 sites local to the Belfast area The successful Interim EHS Manager will need to have the following attributes: Strong track record in Environment Health & Safety within an FMCG / manufacturing NEBOSH or equivalent Expert knowledge of Environment Management Systems Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills The benefits of this position: State of the art facility within a manufacturing business Immediate start Outside IR35 (Ltd. Co. suitable) I am looking to speak to talented Interim Environment Health & Safety Managers who are looking for a rewarding and highly challenging position. For more information please contact Dom Firth (07892789342), Recruitment Consultant at ATA Recruitment. ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
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Maintenance Engineer
£50200 - 50200 per year Overtime and Medical Cover
Bradford
Role: Maintenance Engineer Location: Bradford Shifts: Panama days and nights (3o 2o, 2o 2o 3o) – 2 weekends off in 4! Salary: £50,200, Pension Contribution, Private healthcare and overtime paid (1.5x or 2.0x) The Company My client design and manufacture automation for product retrieval and storage systems, they are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join the site in Bradford, This site in Bradford is an automated logistics site working with highly automated state of the art equipment that is forever improving, my client have been established in the UK for over 20 years and have gone from strength to strength and their demand has increased massively and will continue to grow with a lot of automated warehouses being increased globally! At this site in Bradford, they are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join the site due to a handful of promotions recently – a couple of their team leaders have been promoted, one has moved into a national role and one has moved into a global role within the company, this resulted in a couple of Maintenance Engineers also being internally promoted within the site leaving a vacancy on shift! There is plenty of internal progression opportunities within the company, there is technical progression into specialist roles, projects, installation and more, alternatively there is man management progression route which the company will support and fully back you! The Role As a Maintenance Engineer your day to day responsibilities will include: Joining a team of 7 engineers as well as 4 team leaders and a couple of automation assistants allowing you to focus on engineering and continuous improvement rather than removing blocked lines etc Your days will consist of different reactive and PPM tasks provided to you by an Ipad that is provided to help keep tasks logged etc Doing Daily, Weekly and monthly PPMs delegated via the Ipad ensuring that they are logged properly and signed off There will be an opportunity to look into the continuous improvement with the role and have a look at various projects Electrically you will be required to work safely, look into isolation, fault finding and swapping like for like components Mechanically you will be required to remove and replace components, look at pipe work working objects such as hydraulic and pneumatic systems, valves, pumps, bearings belts and more Working on highly automated state of the art equipment – including Automated shuttle systems, Some of the latest robotics, Various Conveyor Systems just to name a few! The Individual We are looking for a Maintenance Engineer that: Can work as a multi-skilled engineer – working safely electrically and mechanically Be confident communicating and working as part of a team An Engineer that holds a recognised qualification Perform independently when required and under pressure in certain scenarios Benefits As a Maintenance Engineer you will receive: £50,200 per annum working the Panama shift pattern A competitive pension contribution with private health care and many little incentives such as the cycle to work scheme, employee of the month and more A lot of overtime available on request Overtime paid at 1.5x or 2.0x on a Sunday ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
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Senior Maintenance Engineer
£55000 - 55000 per year Medical Cover and Overtime
Leicester
Role: Senior Maintenance Engineer Location: Leicester Shifts: Panamas days and nights Salary: £55,000, Pension Contribution and private healthcare The Company My client design and manufacture automation for product retrieval and storage systems, they are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join the site in the Leicestershire area. This site has been there for 12 years and was my clients second site in the UK. This site is highly automated with over 120,000 products on the site moving products from A to B. My client have been established in the UK for over 20 years and in the UK across their sites they turn over nearly £100 million a A year so if you are looking to work for a company with job security this could be the one for you. An initial 18 month fixed term contract with an opportunity to grow into various departments in the business. The Role As a Senior Maintenance Engineer your day to day responsibilities will include: Joining a team of 10 engineers plus a Supervisor and Manager Your days will consist of different reactive and PPM tasks provided to you by an Ipad that is provided to help keep tasks logged etc Supervising PPMs and over seeing completion Being the first point of contact for any engineering problems and being a SME of all kit on site There will be an opportunity to look into the continuous improvement with the role and have a look at various projects throughout the project Electrically you will be required to work safely, look into isolation, fault finding and swapping like for like components Mechanically you will be required to remove and replace components, look at pipe work working objects such as hydraulic and pneumatic systems, valves, pumps, bearings belts and more Working on highly automated state of the art equipment – including Automated shuttle systems, Some of the latest robotics, Various Conveyor Systems just to name a few! The Individual We are looking for a Senior Maintenance Engineer that: Can work as a multi-skilled engineer – working safely electrically and mechanically Be confident communicating and working as part of a team An Engineer that holds a recognised qualification Perform independently when required and under pressure in certain scenarios Benefits As a Senior Maintenance Engineer you will receive: £55,000 per annum A competitive pension contribution with private health care and many little incentives such as the cycle to work scheme, employee of the month and more A lot of overtime available on request ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
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Maintenance Engineer
£50200 - 50200 per year Funded Training + Progression
Bradford
Maintenance Engineer Job role – Maintenance Engineer (Either Bias) £50,200 + Overtime (1.5x, 2x) + Funded Training + Structured Progression + Private Healthcare + State-of-the-art Equipment and Many More Benefits! Shifts – Panama’s Location – Bradford The Company Our client is providing you an opportunity to work for a global distribution centre that has over 50 sites based across the UK! The company possesses a large market share over its competitors in the automation industry. As a maintenance engineer you will have the opportunity to work on a fully automated site and state-of-the-art machinery to play your part in maintaining the company’s title as a market leader! The Role Working as a maintenance engineer will involve: Carrying out planned preventative maintenance on automation systems and working towards reducing the number of breakdowns Mechanical responsibilities involving – fault finding on conveyors, rollers, belts etc Electrical responsibilities involving – fault finding using a multi-meter to isolate and lock off motors etc Requirements To be a successful maintenance engineer, our client requires: Previous experience in fault finding in either mechanical or electrical engineering – you can be either bias An NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in either electrical or mechanical Benefits The benefits you will receive as a maintenance engineer involve: Funded training – massive training budget for qualifications and courses Progression opportunities Frequent opportunities for overtime Contribution from the company towards your pension plan Opportunities for you to work on brand new state-of-art machinery To apply interviews can be arranged immediately so apply by following the online instructions or send a CV to max.carling@ata-recruitment.co.uk ATA Recruitment specialises in Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Civil, Transportation and general Engineering recruitment on both a permanent and contract basis – for more opportunities like this one, visit our website. By applying you accept the terms of our Privacy Notice which can be found on our website. ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
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Maintenance Engineer
£52500 - 52500 per year Security and Longevity
Mansfield
Are you looking for a Maintenance Engineering role with security, longevity and development in a fully automated environment with some state of the art equipment, then read below! Role: Maintenance Engineer Location: Mansfield Salary: £52,500 plus Group discount and technical development Shifts: 4on 4off Days and Nights The Company ATA Recruitment are proud to be working with a global client who are ever growing their group and increasing their status within the Global economy, now having stores in various industries in over 20 countries across the world the group has been established for 40 years and since then they have grown and gone from strength to strength creating this engineering opportunity with lots of security which is a huge benefit in the current financial climate. At their site in Mansfield they are currently recruiting for a number of Maintenance Engineers to join the site and creating an opportunity to work on some state-of-the-art equipment following the recent expansion of the site. So grab this opportunity with both hands whilst you can. The site in Mansfield is one of the largest facilities in Europe providing plenty of progression opportunity whether you want to progress technically or into man management the ball is in your court with the company fully supporting you! Since the site has opened there has been hundreds of millions of pounds invested into the engineering and automation function helping make the site efficient and embarking on a journey of continuous improvement. To help the journey and increase the commitment the current Head of Engineering, has helped the company overcome the teething issues, and has supported steady the ship over the last couple of years and increase the retention but also continued the investment and development on the site The Role As a Maintenance Engineer you will: - Be joining a shift team of 10 engineers including, SMEs and Shift Managers who don’t shy away from a challenge and supporting the team and helping development of their team - Be responsible for Electrical and Mechanical fault finding on fully automated systems, Following PPMs using the companies CMMS system following the recent installation of the software as a huge part of their long-term development of the site - React to any breakdowns during the shift and be an essential part of engineering problems out and ensuring they don’t happen again - Be working on over £200 million worth of automated machinery and some high-tech equipment including various conveyor systems, ASRS systems, Packaging equipment just to name a few! - The Engineer I am looking for a Maintenance Engineer that: - Has a recognised engineering qualification - Can communicate confidently and work as part of a team depending on the need - Work under pressure in a fast moving environment - Fault find confidently and isolate systems to make them safe to work on - Alternatively my client fully supports candidates from a Forces back ground and welcome them with open arms The Package and Benefits As a Maintenance Engineer you will receive - An annual salary of £52,500 - Pension Contribution - Discounted on site gym membership - Online Learning content with unlimited access - Refer a friend scheme and employee of the month which is DOUBLE monthly salary ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
"Knapp UK have been working closely with ATA Recruitment for many years now, to recruit for a variety of roles and have seen considerable success. Together we have made some great hires, from Engineers in our resident sites right through to more senior management."
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