Workshop Engineer required to support the growth of a small team to service, maintain and adapt machinery to suit customer needs.
Essential:
- A relevant Engineering qualification or experience/apprenticeship
- Hands on experience with pneumatics, electrical and mechanical engineering
- Great communicator
- Ability to take initiative
- Hands on approach
- COSHH awareness
- Computer literacy and ability to use Microsoft software (Word, excel, outlook)
Desirable:
- Experience of using drawing software or programming software would be highly beneficial
- Experience of using Solidworks, Rockwell Alan Bradley and Omron software desirable but not essential
- Experience of deciding panel layout of electrical systems
- Fork lift licence
Daily tasks/responsibilities:
- Prepare machines prior to sale or customer on-site use - working to set checklists.
- Service and/or maintenance on industrial food processing and packaging machinery
- Building control panels from scratch using mechanical, electrical and pneumatic components
- Fault finding on electrical systems.
- Designing small scale electrical and pneumatic systems in order to fill unique customer requirements.
- Changing or retrofitting electrical, mechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic machine parts for a variety of food processing and packaging machinery according to customer requirements
- Working on projects or machinery both alone at times and as part of a team.
- Stripping down existing machinery and carrying out repairs
- Manoeuvring heavy machinery around the warehouse and workshop using forklift truck or pump truck
- Accurately documenting and recording machine information to ensure that all departments are kept informed.
- Using word and excel to create, edit and document various process in the warehouse
- Programming drives with pre-programmed manufacturer software and settings
- Maintaining clean and safe work area at all times.
- Liaising with stores team to ensure accurate booking-out of any required machine parts
- Cleaning machinery parts
- Working with various electrical systems (single phase, 3-phase and 24v)
- Working with R&D to ensure that projects designed in-house are fit for customer purpose.
- Working with Service to communicate about machinery in the workshop.
- Working with service engineers to support them with machinery queries.
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