Job Title: Mould Maintenance Technician
Hours / Shift: 40.25 hours (average)
Hours of work vary between 23 and 57.5 hours per week, averaging 40.25 hours per week over a 14 day period:
Week 1 Monday - Tuesday 07:00 - 19:00
Friday - Sunday 19:00 - 07:00
Week 2 Wednesday - Thursday 07:00 - 19:00
Week 3 Monday - Tuesday 19:00 - 07:00
Friday - Sunday 07:00 - 19:00
Week 4 Wednesday - Thursday 19:00 - 07:00
Location: Banbury
Main purpose of job:
To act as a team member providing a multi-skilled technical service to ensure the effective and efficient running of the plant
Scope of job:
Reporting to: Mould Maintenance Manager / Mould Maintenance Team Leader
Direct Reports: 0
Responsible for: Safety, Quality, Timing, Cost, Motivation
Main duties:
- React to break-downs and quality issues using diagnostic skills to identify and rectify problems quickly and effectively.
- Programme and monitor the running of plant equipment to maximise through-put in line with agreed quality standards.
- Undertake planned maintenance in line with the 'TPM' process.
- Work as a member of the shift team, maximising efforts to meet priorities and having a longer-term view to continuous improvement
- Input into manufacturing facilities (layouts, services etc.)
- Always follow environmental, health & safety policies and procedures and report any issues
- Take appropriate escalation actions
- Provide engineering and technical services to improve the performance of the plant
- Knowledge of quality standards
- To project a professional image of the company to customers/visitors
- To use the escalation procedure for any issues/concerns eg. Quality/downtime
Safety, Environmental Responsibilities:
- Comply with Health & Safety and Environmental Policies.
- Comply compliance with IATF 16949.
- Ensure compliance with Environmental & Health & Safety standards in line with current certification.
- Comply with the General Risk Assessments.
- Comply with the Manual Handling Risk Assessments.
- Comply with COSHH Risk Assessments.
- Report accidents and near misses.
- Comply with the Lock out Tag out Procedure (where applicable).
- Comply with the Safe System of Work documents.
- Take appropriate actions in emergency situations.
- Adhere to 5S processes and procedures.
Quality:
- Raise quality care points.
- Liaise with other departments regarding quality concerns.
- Adhere to standardised working procedures.
- Participate in quality checks and controls.
- Adhere to quality care points.
- Report repeat quality issues.
Timing
- Ensure all quality decisions are made considering risk to supply and escalate as required.
- Report any issues or concerns to your line manager.
Cost:
- Participate in continuous improvement projects to improve departmental performance on safety, uptime, availability, maintenance, equipment modifications, plant, error proofing, technical systems and processes and cost down opportunities.
- Participate in projects within the companies CIP scheme.
- Taking fast action to reduce customer demerits and cost of quality.
- Use consumables responsibly.
Motivation
- Comply with the principals of the company's employee charter
- Participate in training and development programmes and share knowledge with the wider teams.
- Identify areas of development and training requirements.
- Participate in the company's suggestion scheme.
- Promote the open door policy.
- Support the Fairness Committee initiative.
- Ensure good team working principals are being adhered by all team members.
Specific Skills & Experience:
- Formal apprenticeship within either an electrical, mechanical or hydraulic qualification.
- Will be fully trained with process and machine systems
- Strong diagnostic skills, good numeracy and communication (both oral and written) skills
- Experience within a large injection moulding shop would be desirable.
- Reactive to changing requirements
- Ability to write technical reports
- Ability to work using own initiative with minimum supervision
- Ability to work under pressure
· Must have a strong attention span with a good eye for detail.
- Robotic experience - Kuka, ABB robots desirable.
- Experience of hydraulics and PLC work.
- Computer literate with good excel and access database skills.
- Good analytical skills.
- Candidates must be able to work using their own initiative, and be able to liaise with other functions and departments at all levels within the company.
- Manual dexterity.
- Literacy and numeracy.
- Ability to identify different colours of products (i.e. Ishihara).