Package Description
Job title: Mechanically Biased Maintenance Engineer (Weekend Shift)
Location: Llantarnam, NP44 3YL
Contract type: 6 month fixed term contract
Work pattern: Full-time Fri-Mon 08:00 - 18:00 (39 hours per week)
Salary: £843.11 per week
Start date: ASAP
About the role
As part of a skilled team, this role involves responding to breakdowns and carrying out preventative and predictive maintenance activities on manufacturing plant and equipment. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a background ideally within the FMCG industry.
Responsibilities
- Carry out planned maintenance activities as scheduled by the maintenance plan contained within the CMMS
- Attend and repair breakdowns as required, and report all actions carried out and any further actions required, via the CMMS
- Report in a comprehensive manner via the CMMS, all work activities carried out on a daily/shift basis
- Be proactive in preventing equipment failures and improving overall equipment performance by generating and implementing ideas and modifications
- Provide a service that meets agreed service levels, including minimising downtime and communicating effectively with relevant personnel
- Provide a service that meets food safety standards, whilst maintaining standards of housekeeping and personal hygiene
- Maintain and help improve health and safety standards and ensure that staff work in a safe environment by eliminating, minimising and controlling risks to themselves and others
- Cooperate with contractors and as far as is possible to ensure their adherence to site rules, health and safety and food safety standards
- Undertake training as required to further enhance individual’s skills and knowledge so that the level of support to the front line operations remains effective and efficient
- Train others so that they are able to carry out their expected work duties to the required standards
- Identify performance issues and implement appropriate and pragmatic solutions through the use of problem solving skills, tools and techniques
- Maximise the use of the labour and skills available by being flexible in terms of work allocation and scheduling within the team
- In consultation with the appropriate personnel, be able to correctly prioritise the work load for the overall benefit of the site performance
- Must be able to work to agreed deadlines where necessary
- Must be willing to work under the guidance of departmental and site KPI’s to maximise business performance
What we need from you
- Educated to ONC standard (or equivalent) or higher in mechanical engineering (and electrical if dual skilled)
- Post apprenticeship, preferably in a high volume manufacturing environment (Food environment preferable)
- A proven practitioner of preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, problem solving and continuous improvement skills
- Must have a proven ability in diagnostic fault finding under pressure of production
- Familiar with TPM principles including 5S
- Use of CMMS (computerised maintenance management systems) ideally SAP, but not essential
If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so
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