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Maintenance engineer

Whitstable
Permanent
Trapeze Recruitment Services
Maintenance engineer
£35,000 - £36,000 a year
Posted: 9 September
Offer description

Our global manufacturing client is looking for a Maintenance Engineer, to provide both Electrical and Mechanical engineering skills to effectively support the Company’s plant, equipment and installations.

Rotating Shift Pattern - Shift A; M-Fri 6am-2pm; Shift B; M-Thu 2pm-10.30pm Fri 2pm-7.30pm

Role Purpose of Maintenance Engineer

To be a key member of the Maintenance team working on:

* Ensuring the internal customers are supported.
* PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance) – to plant and facilities.
* Reactive work orders – working on equipment failures and facilities issues.
* Continuous improvement to manufacturing processes.
* Deliver/support projects – such as new equipment installations, site regeneration activities and sustainability improvements.

Key Duties of Maintenance Engineer

* Diagnose the failure and causes of asset/component breakdowns, repair or fit new parts and make sure the equipment is working correctly.
* Complete PPM tasks including Condition Based Monitoring.
* Identify remedial works and coordinate the resolutions in a timely manner.
* Utilise the CMMS system to prioritise works, lead discussions within the departmental morning meeting, balance resolving long term actions along with the short-term urgent actions.
* Provide a timely breakdown response to emergencies, unplanned problems, and repairs.
* Work with specialist equipment such as programmable logic controllers (PLC), hydraulic and pneumatic systems, which control machinery in the machine shop, assembly and plating shop area.
* Installation of electrical and / or mechanical plant and equipment i.e. Control panels, fixed electrical installations & testing,
* Support with facilities maintenance i.e. Buildings, roadways, water systems (plant & operations), communication systems.
* Interpreting electrical / mechanical drawings, schematics, and operating instructions to support the planned maintenance schedules.
* Satisfying maintenance database documentation, records, and reporting requirements.
* Liaise and coordinate third party activity including management of contractors, reviewing RAMS, issuing PTW etc when required.
* Review and conduct internal risk assessments and methods statements as required by the business.
* Support with identifying gaps within current processes and providing solutions to bridge them.

Required Skills & Qualifications of Maintenance Engineer

* 5 years+ in a similar role.
* NVQ level 3 or higher in an Engineering discipline (or equivalent).
* Must be able to interpret electrical wiring/hydraulic/pneumatic diagrams.
* Must know the principles of various engineering disciplines including but not limited to electrical/electronic systems, fluid dynamics such as hydraulics, pneumatics or water processes.
* Verbal and written communication.
* Computer literacy.
* Patient, problem solver, diligent and goal driven.

Benefits

* 25 days annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays)
* Pension – the company matches the employee contribution up to 6% (4% is the minimum the employee can contribute)
* Life Assurance
* Long term ill heath cover
* Occupational Health
* Subsidised restaurant
* Family friendly policies

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