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Maintenance Engineer

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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

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