**Maintenance Engineer - Mechanical or Electrically biased or Multi-skilled.
Job Summary
Responsible for the engineering maintenance activities within a medium to heavy manufacturing environment. Providing a proactive service which contributes towards reducing downtime, improving plant performance and reliability using preventative and predictive maintenance methods and techniques. You will be highly motivated, with a ‘can do' attitude towards your work, as well as having a degree of flexibility to help meet business needs and market demands. You will be a major exponent of Health and safety practices, with a strong focus towards work quality and plant standards.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Carry out both re-active and pro-active maintenance tasks, working across all departments. • You will be required and able to diagnose problems/plant faults constructively and accurately. • Take part in the development, creation and implementation of PPM schedules to achieve maximum machine availability. • Record daily activities and creation of work orders within a CMMS, as well as using the system to assist with any fault diagnosis. • Attend and contribute towards daily and weekly planned maintenance meetings/plant priority reviews. • Identify/specify and order engineering parts.
- Contribute towards the control and improvement of critical spares requirements. • Ensure that all parts required are booked out correctly and recorded as necessary. • Work with specialist OEM service engineers where required. • Facilitate lean ways of working to minimise waste and maximise efficiency, ensuring departmental objectives are achieved.
- To participate in training and upskilling activities to help maintain and improve your site and technical knowledge. • Undertake any other tasks, which are reasonable in relation to the skills, knowledge and experience. • Able to perform safety & quality risk assessments for engineering work tasks. • Adhere to safe work practices and procedures, as well as maintaining environmental and legislative requirements.
Skills Experience and Qualification
Desirable • A relevant vocational qualification e.g., NVQ, ONC, HNC, HND, C&G or an appropriate apprenticeship. • Some electrical experience/qualification or the willingness to undertake electrical cross skilling training. •
Experience of furnace mechanics and their control systems would be advantageous although NOT essential . Experience in machine tool maintenance. Demonstrable • Experience within a medium to heavy manufacturing environment, although applicants from other industries would also be considered.
• Good fault finding and problem-solving skills essential – mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical systems. • Ability to read and understand electrical and mechanical engineering drawings.