Maintenance & Engineering Roles
Senior Maintenance Engineer Full Time
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Overview: Retained by our client, a leading injection moulding manufacturer of automotive components we are recruiting for a Senior Maintenance Engineer to join their team.
Benefits:
- Company pension scheme
- On site canteen
- Free on-site parking
- Opportunity to join an established & growing team
Remit:
- As a Senior Maintenance Engineer, you will lead the maintenance team to ensure that all machinery is checked, maintained and serviced to ensure continuous and safe running to reduce incidents and breakdowns.
- The successful Senior Maintenance Engineer will have experience working in a similar role, with working knowledge of injection moulding machines & automation.
Role:
- Be proactive in setting PPM schedules and organising the maintenance team on machine down-time projects for planned maintenance activities.
- Organise maintenance / servicing & commissioning jobs for the maintenance department staff.
- To undertake planned maintenance on designated equipment to maintain and improve production efficiency.
- Identify the root cause of breakdowns and faults on machinery.
- Perform safety checks and routine maintenance.
- Repair and replace defective parts as required.
- Implement continuous improvement activities.
- Ensuring that all staff are observing safety procedures and housekeeping processes.
- Ensure the planning and resourcing of staff, materials, technical support of day-to-day activities to meet the manufacturing demand.
- Ensure KPIs are being met.
- Regular reporting of status on all engineering activities such as machine breakdowns, non-breakdowns, preventative maintenance, projects, etc.
- Analyse regular failures and provide long term solutions.
- Provide support and expertise to projects requiring engineering input.
- Carry out day to day hands on activities to reduce plant downtime.
Experience & Requirements:
- Apprentice trained with a relevant qualification in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering
- Have previous working knowledge of injection moulding machines and automation.
- A good working knowledge of PLCs, robotics, hydraulics, pneumatics and electronic/electrical automation controls.
- People management experience is essential.
- Experience with lean manufacturing techniques such as OEE,5s, Kaizen
- Have a good awareness of health and safety in the workplace
- Effective communication skills
- Be highly self-motivated, demonstrate passion, and be a team player with a flexible and ‘can-do’ attitude and the ability to work under pressure within tight deadlines.
