Job Description
Job Title: Shift Maintenance Engineer
Salary: £42,000
Benefits: Bonus Scheme, Life Assurance, Pension, Stock Purchase Plan + more
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Suffolk
Job Start date: ASAP
Shift Pattern: 3 Rotating shift
We’re supporting our client, a company that manufactures fibre and copper solutions for a telecommunications and broadcast industries based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, who are looking for a Shift Maintenance Engineer to join their growing team.
Position Overview: As a Shift Maintenance Engineer, you’ll be a vital part of the operations, ensuring the seamless functioning of our equipment and facilities. You will be working on shifts, to ensure that production engineering maintenance and process issues are solved during the shift. You are there to support the implementation of new equipment and processes, ensure that the company are able to produce product seamlessly 24 hrs per day, feedback issues to the production management team and support continuous improvement activities.
Responsibilities for Shift Maintenance Engineer:
- Ensure the availability of production equipment and ancillary services equipment during shift working hours. This includes being the operators first call for when process equipment issues arise.
- Support the production shift team leader’s day to day engineering needs and ensure all issues which arise are dealt with efficiently and effectively.
- Perform daily planned preventative maintenance activities and proficiently use and help develop the sites computer engineering maintenance management system.
- Perform unplanned maintenance and repairs as required to ensure optimum production run time during shifts – Fault finding on equipment causing process issues down to the root cause, not just curing the symptoms.
- Support the installation and commissioning of new manufacturing equipment.
- Identify and drive forward improvements to our equipment and processes.
About You:
- Formal apprenticeship or other equivalent qualifications in electrical, mechanical and/or maintenance engineering, 18th Edition qualified is also desirable.
- Maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience with three phase systems, motor starters, control panels and motors are desirable, and it is an advantage if you also have experience with variable speed drives.
- Knowledge and experience of hydraulic and pneumatic systems and equipment, bearings and drive transmission systems.
Job Application:
If you would like to be considered for the role of Shift Maintenance Engineer, please apply with 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.
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