Job Description
Maintenance Engineer
Responsibilities:
- To undertake planned preventative maintenance activities and reactive maintenance to ensure optimum efficiency of the plant and profitability
- To ensure all engineering tasks are undertaken in line with Health & Safety and Quality
- Provide full emergency breakdown cover for all injection moulding machine. Robots and services
- To efficiently carry out repair works to the highest standard
- Complete all work sheets and report any follow ups required, including Planned Maintenance work sheets and handover back to manufacturing
- Observe and report all problem areas on all plant and services
- Work as a team with all other members of the factory team
- Maintain a high standard of work and promote good housekeeping throughout the factory and workshops
- To always ensure that Health and Safety issues are treated with the highest priority at all times.
- Administer, monitor, analyse and update machine history data using the Companies management system
- Provide first line cover in all machinery problems
- Be proactive with ideas for improving the plant and engineering departments
About You:
- The Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer will hold an Engineering qualification, ideally along with 16th / 17th Edition
- You will be a time served multi skilled Maintenance Engineer with electrical knowledge and experience of working in a team-orientated, process environment
- A strong manufacturing background is essential, with a proven background in PLC fault finding
- Good communication skills
- Can demonstrate a ‘hands on’ approach
- Good problem solving / fault finding techniques
- Ability to be able to work unsupervised
- Attention to detail and commitment to completing all works first time to the highest standard, thus eliminating repeat visits
- Able to work under pressure
Qualifications
- A formal qualification in an engineering discipline
- A full apprenticeship or other relevant occupational training
- Must be able to demonstrate an aptitude and passion for engineering
- Good standard of numeracy and literacy
- PC literate
- Good analytical skills
- A minimum of 2 years relevant work experience
- Relevant experience gained within the injection moulding industry
- Experience in a similar role
- Shows and understanding of the need to work safely – and the implications of not doing so
- Able to work well with other people as part of a team
- Able to demonstrate examples of implementing solutions to reoccurring problems and suggesting proactive ideas
Personal Qualities/Behaviours
- Flexible and prepared to work unsocial days and hours
- Reliable and punctual
- Must want to succeed and be prepared to work hard to achieve this
- Confident and personable
- Assist in team working throughout the site
- Works as part of not only the Engineering team, but also as an integral part of the wider factory team
Job Application:
If you would like to be considered for this role, please apply to send a copy of your full CV – or call us now.
Whilst this position may not be of interest to you or suit your skills and experience, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with a member of the team at Willcox Matthews to understand how we can support you.
We receive a large number of applications for all of our positions – Therefore, if you have not received a response within 10 working days, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Candidates must be eligible to work and live in the UK