Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Trafford Park
4 days ago
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Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

£48,000

Trafford Park

9% Pension

Monday to Friday 7am to 3pm

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

The Role

You will be smart of a small but expanding maintenance team, supporting operations to achieve compliance to the production plan by minimising engineering downtime, increasing availability, performance and efficiency of the existing assets through continuous improvement techniques. Providing effective and efficient timely responses to plant breakdowns and ensuring planned maintenance is completed on time and as per the PPM site requirements.

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Main Responsibilities

·      Maintain a clean, safe & organised working environment

·      Always demonstrate safe behaviour and conform to all safe systems of work

·      Support a culture that enhances awareness to reduce accidents and near misses

·      Provide first line maintenance support to the manufacturing departments

·      Line monitoring to improve efficiency

·      Provide feedback for improving the planned maintenance system

·      Order spare parts & liaise with Engineering Stores

·      Assist with machinery installation and decommissioning

·      Participate in electrical and mechanical proactive and re-active maintenance to the best of your capability

·      Diagnose machine breakdowns and act accordingly

·      To communicate and escalate accordingly when assistance is required

·      Carry out routine equipment safety and maintenance inspections

·      Ensure all work conforms to statutory & safety requirements

·      Ensure that plant and equipment perform to manufacture product efficiently to high quality standards.

·      To liaise, assist with training and support other departments in general running of the factory.

·      Contribute to and help implement continuous improvement, to enhance quality, safety, efficiency and waste reduction.

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

The Candidate

·      A minimum of 2 years working as a multi skilled maintenance engineer

·      Ideally have experience within the food, FMCG, printing, packaging or plastic injection moulding industries

·      Experience with robotics would be beneficial but is not essential

·      Experience with ultrasonic welding would be beneficial but is not essential

·      Experience of faulting finding and modifying PLCs

·      Ideally you will be time served

·      18th edition qualified

·      Experience of working with an automated environment is essential

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