Equipment and Facilities Engineer

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintenance, troubleshooting and installation of high value manufacturing and facility equipment.
• Writing and scheduling preventative maintenance activities, carrying out PM activities as required.
• Identifying and controlling stock of critical spares, to include sourcing best process to reduce costs.
• Support Manufacturing to ensure that production schedules, plans and customer deliveries are consistently achieved.
• Be active in continual improvement activities which would include OEE, safety, energy efficiency and equipment improvement
• Assist in identifying training needs and training of others, including mentoring and working with technicians and apprentices.
• Communicating with other company functions on engineering projects and providing progress updates.
• Following all health and safety protocols
• Take on other engineering duties as required and assigned.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Ideally have an HNC, HND in Electrical and/or Mechanical Engineering or be a time served engineer with relevant academic qualifications.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Be self-motivated and able to work unsupervised, applying judgement in resolving issues or making recommendations and helping to identify solutions to nonstandard tasks and queries.
• Be able to interpret and understand mechanical drawings and schematics.
• Have effective communications skills acting as a source of technical expertise to make recommendations and share knowledge.
• Be able to prioritise and organise work to deliver to agreed deadlines.
• Work in a clean room environment.
• Ensure when carrying out any job function that it is done in accordance with all Health & Safety rules and regulations.
• Be PC literate including Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word with the ability to produce reports and working instructions using these tools.
• Demonstrate a flexible attitude being prepared to work in any department on a variety of shift patterns where skills and business needs dictate.

Desirable but not essential

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