April Quest
Maintenance Engineer
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A global leader in high quality, safety-critical electro-mechanical products that are sold globally are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join their 24 hour production line.
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Info About What The Maintenance Engineer Role Entails
Exciting electro-mechanical Maintenance Engineer role on a small night shift team, supervising one Technician in a fast paced, high tech manufacturing facility. You will maintain a cutting edge 24 hour production line including pick & place machines, SMT screen printers, ovens, conveyors, automated optical inspection machines, assembly lines, robotics, conveyors & laser marking machines amongst others.
The night shift can be a challenge as there are less people available to help so you will be comfortable with root cause analysis & fault diagnosis / identification. Alongside reactive maintenance & planned maintenance activities you will run small CI projects to improve downtime and machinery performance.
Essential Requirements Of The Maintenance Engineer
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- Time served or HNC (or equivalent) qualification in an electrical, mechanical or electro-mechanical engineering discipline. They do a lot of small mechanical adjustments, very little 3 phase electrical maintenance.
- 2/3 + years’ experience in a similar role – some experience in maintenance environment will be essential.
- Some knowledge of electrical & electronic systems & sensors e.g. PLCs, vision systems, fibre optic sensors, mechanics, pneumatics, robotics and test equipment etc.
- Good problem solving & decision making is key you will be able to fault find and diagnose - main thing is a good track record fault finding and RCA.
- Experience with RCA making improvements to machines & processes - e.g. RCA methodologies, SMED, 5Whys, fishbone, Ishikawa - predictive and preventative strategy.
- You will have a proactive mindset always looking for cost savings and improvements.
Desirable Requirements of the Maintenance Engineer
- Experience of robotics, conveyors or hydraulics.
- 18th Edition qualified.
- Experience mentoring / leading apprentices etc - if you don't have that experience it can be developed with in house management courses, 121s & distance learning opportunities.
- Lean - proactive approach to eliminate waste, SMED etc environment, the people, the process and the equipment.
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Benefits
- 37 hours per week.
- Night shift – start from Sunday at 10.30pm - finish at 6am, then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10pm start, 6am finish.
- Overtime at time and a half.
- Significantly enhanced pension scheme.
- 25 days holiday + ability to purchase extra days.
- Company Bonus Scheme.
- Share allocation scheme.
- Health plan, access to 24 hour doctors etc.
- Life Insurance (3 x annual salary and up to 6 x annual salary depending on Ts and Cs).
If you feel you are suitable and interested in this role, APPLY NOW with an up to date CV. We also pay referral fees if you can suggest another suitable person that isn’t already known to us.
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