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Birmingham
Double Days
Up to £50,000 depending on experience

SF Engineering are recruiting for a Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer, the successful candidate will be part of a specialist team who strive for Zero Breakdown within manufacturing, though maintenance adherence and continuous improvements.

Primary Objectives:

Safety compliance - Ensuring that all systems and equipment meet health and safety standards to protect workers and prevent accidents.
Troubleshooting and repairs - Diagnosing and fixing mechanical or electrical issues to keep operations running efficiently
Regulatory compliance - Adhering to industry regulations and standards to maintain operational integrity

Main Tasks and Key Areas of Work:

  • Support Production Engineers with large projects
  • Carry out and support improvement activities.
  • Understanding the latest technologies
  • Operate all workshop tools and equipment
  • Good Understanding of hydraulics and pneumatics
  • Good Understanding of electrics and electronics
  • Able to Fault find effectively and mentor others fault finding.
  • Good Understanding of Automation and robotics
  • Carry out Breakdowns and repairs
  • Basic Understanding of CAD
  • Good Understanding of TPM
  • Support All Pillars of TPM
  • Drive maintenance standards
  • Testing and pre-production inspection following intervention
  • Understanding of materials and their properties
  • Instrument calibration
  • Clearly communicate technical information to non-technical colleagues
  • Collaboration with cross functional teams
  • Good Understanding of sustainability, the environment and energy efficiency
  • Good Understanding of health & safety and regulatory requirements
  • Proactively Mentor others where needed.
  • Proactively work to improve Engineering KPI's - OEE, downtime etc
  • Good understanding of stakeholder/customer requirements
  • Work towards a level 5 engineering qualification.
  • Create, carry out and review PM standards and schedules.
  • Involved in maintenance task risk assessments and support operational risk assessment.
  • Follow all Health and Safety Procedures
  • Support FI process improvements
  • Carry out FI on PM activities for chronic losses
  • Lead sporadic breakdown reports
  • Maintain spares inventory and order new parts cost effectively
  • Maintain a high level of housekeeping at all times.
  • Create and sustain 5S standards.
  • Involved in Machine moving projects

    Essential Skills / Qualifications required:

  • Level 5 engineering qualification. Desired
  • Computer literate (Micro Soft, Vault/Inventor, Avante) or similar.
  • Good understanding of machine software, electropneumatic and robots. Ladder logic and function blocks. (Mitsubishi, Siemens etc and ABB, Nachi and Yaskawa etc)
  • Advanced knowledge in Pneumatics and hydraulics
  • Able to interpret schematic drawings and read tooling drawings including tolerances.
  • Operate basic workshop machine tools
  • Forklift Licence desired
  • Electrical Qualification Desired

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