Package Description
Role – Electrical Engineer
Location – Peterborough
Contract Type - Permanent, Full time
Working Pattern – Site based (Continental shift pattern)
Salary – £45,500 to £53,500 per annum
Start Date - ASAP
What’s in it for you
- Competitive salary
- Attractive pension scheme
- Opportunities for career growth and development
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Comprehensive benefits package
About the role - Electrical Engineer
Our client is looking for an Electrical Engineer to maintain all their electrical equipment, machinery, auxiliary instruments, and gauges, ensuring minimum disruption to production and compliance with safety requirements across their statte-of-the-art factory.
Responsibilities
Electrical Maintenance:
- Carry out and record maintenance work on machines and equipment, ensuring compliance with electrical safety legislation.
- Comply with planned electrical maintenance schedules.
- Update electrical programmes and associated programmes to ensure that information is current.
- Conduct research into the development and implementation of new and existing equipment.
- Perform statutory inspection and testing procedures, and safety inspections as per the agreed schedule.
- Ensure care of plant instrumentation and undertake any servicing or calibration required.
- Provide flexible support across all manufacturing departments, where safety and training allow.
- Maintain an understanding of electrical safety legislations and regulations and ensure compliance with both.
Fault Finding and Repair:
- Determine the nature of faults or breakdowns from information received from production personnel and interrogate the equipment.
- Analyse the symptoms of the fault, make initial assessments, and if required, report faults via usual reporting channels.
- Rectify faults and return the equipment to full production, in a safe and timely manner.
- Utilise logical fault-finding techniques to check through circuits, consulting with electrical drawings and using test equipment.
- Repair unit spares, including any spares required for the manufacturing process.
Installation and Modification:
- Install or commission new equipment in conjunction with project support, external contractors, and suppliers.
- Design and draw up circuit diagrams using a CAD system; write up relevant PLC programmes.
- Recommend and implement improvements to line and ancillary equipment.
- Install hardware for modifications to the line, which can include mechanical containment, conduit, sensors, relays, PLCs, logic systems, etc.
Analysis:
- Analyse line performance in relation to speed, temperature, and product flow and update PLC programmes to achieve optimum performance.
- Assess the feasibility of suggestions for improvements and take appropriate action.
- Record all changes in the online logbooks, electronic data, and modification sheets.
What we need from you
- Level 3 Apprenticeship (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering or Mechatronic Engineering (with an electrical bias)
- Commitment to Health and Safety
- A 'can-do' attitude
- A drive for continuous improvement
What we would like from you
- HNC (Level 4) qualification
- Basic programming and fault-finding techniques
- Relevant experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment
About Our Client
Our client is a leading supplier of beverage packaging, food packaging, aerosol packaging, metal closures, and specialty packaging products to consumer marketing companies around the world. They are a reputable organisation in the FMCG industry, committed to delivering high-quality solutions to their customers.
Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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