Mechanical/Pneumatic Fitter
Filling Machinery Manufacturer
Based: Nelson, Lancashire
£Competitive + benefits
Riggs Autopack is an award-winning UK designer and manufacturer of filling machines and depositors for the food, industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. We are a highly successful business whose products and services have gained a strong reputation through consistently enabling customers to achieve their aims in the filling of sensitive, delicate and difficult to handle products. Our machines have a reputation second-to-none for quality, accuracy and reliability.
An exciting opportunity has now arisen to join our day shift as a mechanical fitter, working on an exciting variety of equipment from within our state-of-the-art engineering facilities.
The key responsibilities of the role comprise:
* Mechanical and Pneumatic assembly for a range of filling machines; from single head machines to filling lines that form part of full processing plants.
* Undertaking complete machine builds where required, including mechanical and Pneumatic functionality testing.
* Applying your assembly skills in the assembly of both new and existing designs to engineering drawings, and to sound engineering practice and machinery codes.
* Working closely with the production and design functions to feedback on your findings from machine builds to aid continuous improvement.
* Providing support to customer PDI’s and occasional customer training at site.
As a conscientious and skilled engineer, you will be contributing to the high standards of build quality that our machines are recognised for.
You will ideally be an apprentice trained engineer, qualified to minimum ONC level, or equivalent, with a multi-skilled engineering background. You will also be familiar with pneumatic control systems, air cylinders and air actuated valves, mechanical valves, pumps, small pipework assemblies, conveyors and materials handling systems, motors, drives. Electrical experience is highly beneficial but not essential.
You should possess a high level of communication skills, an innate attention to detail and an enthusiasm for producing high quality work to planned production timescales