Maintenance Engineer

• Job Title – Maintenance Engineer With Electrical Bias
• Reporting to – Maintenance Facilities Supervisor

Purpose of Role

• Working as part of the maintenance and facilities team, ensuring that plant, equipment and facilities on site are maintained and are running correctly and safety.
• Ensure that all work carried out in a professional and safe manner and in accordance with current regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure Health & Safety is adhered and a high priority in the work areas
• Electrical and Mechanical maintenance and repair of plant, equipment and facilities on site.
• Installation and replacement of equipment.
• Electrical and Mechanical fault finding on plant
• Machine and plant installation, replacement and repair ranging from high value projects to smaller improvement projects.
• Perform planned, preventative maintenance tasks to the prescribed schedule
• Assist with maintenance site facilities ranging from infrastructure, communal facilities to include WC’s, drainage and groundworks.
• Perform all reasonable request made by management

Key Requirements

• Ideally City & Guilds/NVQ Maintenance or similar discipline qualified.
• Time served apprenticeship or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Electrical/Mechanical experience in manufacturing machines, involving plc controllers, hydraulics and pneumatics, fault finding and repair.
• PLC fault diagnosis, (Omron, Rockwell, Mitsubishi desirable)
• Positive, problem-solving attitude and willing to learn new skills.
• Be able to contribute to and work within a small team, whilst still able to work on own initiative.
• To be flexible with working hours to support planned repairs and unplanned breakdowns
• You may be required on occasion to perform Ad hoc responsibilities to support business needs
• Resourceful and able adapt to changing priorities and maintain a positive attitude and possess a strong work ethic

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge of lean engineering principles and techniques
• 18th Edition - Level 3 Electrical Installations Award - BS7671:2018
• Omron PLC experience and knowledge.
• Previous experience working in a manufacturing environment, preferably aerospace or automotive, particularly hot, and cold forming presses or process control, chemical.
• Experience working with and supervising external contractors
• Experience working with chemical processing