Job Description
Maintenance Engineer – Job Summary:
We’re supporting our client, a leading global Automotive equipment manufacturer based in Telford, who are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join their growing team. The successful Maintenance Engineer will have experience of PPM & PLC’s.
Salary: Circa £49,000
Benefits: To be discussed at interview
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Telford
Job Start date: ASAP
Shift Pattern: Nightshift
Responsibilities:
Safety & Environmental
- Read, understand, follow and sign for all Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work and 3s procedure for maintenance activities.
- Ensure all environmental procedures are adhered to including segregation waste disposal and COSHH.
- Identify and escalate any machine equipment or process away from standard operation.
- Identify and escalate any activity that had the potential to harm or cause damage.
- Ensure all equipment is maintained to Company procedures and is compliant with British Standards before and after any work is carried out.
Quality
- Understand and demonstrate a “Quality First” philosophy ensuring all work carried out on machines does not affect product quality.
- Liaise with manufacturing and production engineering departments when quality problems occur and ensure requests are actioned.
Delivery
- Carry out calendar and monthly preventative maintenance (PM) requests from schedules and frequencies on required machines, processes and assembly lines.
- Perform breakdown maintenance activity to improve machine availability.
- Liaise with other departments to identify and implement equipment and process Kaizen activities to improve availability, cycle time, changeover, Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) and quality.
- Complete maintenance requisitions that include red tag and blue tag plus safety requisitions.
- Use the MTAS system to record work carried out and to analyse breakdown data for Kaizen activity.
Cost
- Continuously look to implement cost down opportunities.
- Access the viability of repair first rather than fit new parts from stores.
- Ensure all items used from stores are booked out and job number allocated.
Human
- Ensure 5a activity is carried out on all tasks undertaken including the work areas and hot corners.
- At shift changeover share all relevant information with opposite shift members who may carry on the task.
- Contribute to your own self-development to ensure your knowledge is at the appropriate level.
- Utilise effective communication across all functions.
About You:
Essential
- Recognised time served apprenticeship to City and Guilds or Professional Vocational Qualification in Electrical Engineering discipline.
- In depth knowledge or PLC and computerised control systems and interfaces.
- Working knowledge of high volume production equipment, processes and assembly lines.
- In depth knowledge of Servo Control systems, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
- Experience of working on AC & DC voltages from 5 to 415 volts and 3 phase.
- In depth knowledge of robot programming and repair skills.
- Ability to set up machine components to a very fine tolerance to ensure product quality.
- Good communication skills and ability to interact with different cultures and utilise colleagues within the working environment to achieve outcomes.
Desirable
- Knowledge of Japanese machinery and systems.
- Previous experience of the automotive manufacturing industry.
- Proficiency in MS Office suite.
- Working knowledge of health and safety legislation for machinery e.g. PUWER, LOLER etc.
- MEWP licence or experience of working at height.
- Working knowledge of mechanical drawings.
- Working knowledge of vacuum systems.
Job Application:
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