Reactive Engineer – Croydon

Millers Vanguard Limited; Croydon; On-site; GBP 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading service maintenance company in Croydon is looking for a Reactive Engineer to join their team. You will provide dynamic support and maintenance for bakery and catering equipment across various customer sites. The role offers competitive pay, additional on-call compensation, and extensive training opportunities. Enjoy a supportive company culture with a focus on employee development, state-of-the-art facilities, and a commitment to maintaining a high standard of service in the foodservice industry.

Benefits

Company Pension

Incremental holiday allowance

Job Specific Uniform & tooling

Regular staff ‘treats’

Company wide fun days and charity events

Training in City & Guilds accredited academy

Qualifications

• Experience with 3 Phase electrical systems.
• Full driving licence required for the role.
• Training provided in bakery and catering equipment maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Attend customer sites and perform repairs and maintenance.
• Liaise with Operations Team and provide work updates.
• Maintain vehicle stock and equipment securely.

Skills

18th Edition Wiring Regulations

3 Phase Electrical Experience

Full driving licence

Bakery and Catering Experience

Job description

Job Title: Reactive Engineer – Croydon

Salary: £48,300 per annum (plus additional payment for on call totalling £900.00 per annum and an extra £2,080 per annum if you are gas qualified)

Hours: Monday – Friday plus additional weekend working 1 in 4 working weekend rota – paid ‘Door to Door’.

Company Information

Miller’s Vanguard are the UK’s premier service maintenance and equipment supply company within the foodservice industry.

We are a ‘Family style’ run business, maintaining and repairing foodservice equipment for many of the UK’s leading retail chains, giving us unrivalled industry expertise earned over 40 years of experience.

Job Description

We have an opportunity for an experienced Reactive Engineer based in South London to further strengthen our Engineering team and provide a dynamic reactive support service to all our loyal large supermarket customers.

Your Role

• Based from home attending customer sites within your region – typically up to a 30 miles radius
• Implementing repairs and maintenance activities on a variety of bakery and catering equipment within capability range
• Liaising on a regular basis with our Operations Team and providing updates on work tasks
• Accurately and securely maintain all vehicle stock, tools and equipment

Ideal Candidate

• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
• 3 Phase Electrical Experience
• Full driving licence
• Bakery and Catering Experience (Not essential as training is provided)

Company Information

Who are we?

Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our services are as follows:

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people

Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development

Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• Incremental holiday allowance (up to 32 days per year)
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families