Maintenance Engineer + Night Shift + Sunday - Thursday + £39,936 salary
Our manufacturing client based in Preston are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join them in a permanent capacity on the night shift.
The Maintenance Engineer will be accountable for the overall repair and maintenance of the equipment across departments.
Maintenance Engineer responsibilities:
- To be responsible for maintenance and repair of all equipment, plant and electrical supplies across the whole site in line with legislative requirements across the whole site.
- This role will include planned preventative maintenance, repairs to plant machinery and changeover of plant equipment.
- Colleagues, departmental managers and external contractors/ suppliers and line operatives
- To maintain the site electrical equipment to ensure it is always in good working condition
- Diagnosis of electrical and mechanical failure and undertake repairs if necessary.
- You will be required to order parts and support other departments if needed, this is a hands-on role.
- Have experience of project work including development and commissioning of new plant
- Covering the night shift the role will include planned preventative maintenance, repairs to plant machinery and changeover of plant equipment
- Ideally you will be a multi skilled engineer but must be time served in an engineering/ electrical discipline
- Some basic electrical skills would be an advantage as well as previous experience of testing instrumentation, fault finding, pumping systems process improvements
- Key skills with diagnostic analysis, trouble shooting and repairs to electrical control systems incorporating PLC, other micro-processor control and network of automated plant AC DC and servo drives reactive breakdowns
- Assist with the installation of new plant and equipment
- Ensure all equipment is safe to operate
- Monitor equipment on an ongoing basis
- To ensure that all health and safety standards are maintained and that you show due diligence at all times.
- Comply with all company policies and procedures e.g. health & safety, training & development, quality, disciplinary & grievance & sickness & absence
- To carry out appraisal/ development reviews of direct reports
Qualifications & Attributes:
- Good team player
- Experienced maintenance Engineer
- Self-motivated and able to work under pressure
- An innovator who challenges and questions
- Proven ability to communicate
- Strong leadership qualities
- Flexible attitude to work practices, able to challenge current status quo
- Driver - able to push own teams' ability to achieve highest standard