Job Details
HQ5104 Mechanical Maintenance Engineer
Salary £35,000 per annum
Location: Rainham, Essex
The Mechanical Maintenance Engineer is responsible for the continuous running of equipment and machinery. This position is ideally suited for someone with a mechanical bias with electrical experience. You will use Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s) and electrical test equipment to assist in fault finding on some of the machinery and equipment; the remaining will be offline and require problem solving.
Applications from ex-military personnel (Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Marines) will be particularly relevant for this role and are strongly encouraged.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Planned Preventative Maintenance System and respond to equipment faults
- Support the Total Productive Manufacturing initiative on site (TPM)
- Accountable for all mechanical appliances on site
- Designing / amending maintenance strategies, procedures and methods
- Designing maintenance strategies, procedures and methods for new installations
- Accountable for the installation of new parts ensuring equipment is working correctly
- Diagnosing faults, breakdown problem, troubleshooting all machinery and equipment
- Carrying out quality inspections on jobs
- Liaising with other engineering and production colleagues
- Arranging specialist procurement of fixtures, fittings or components
- Controlling maintenance tools, stores, equipment and costs
- Dealing with and responding to emergencies, unplanned problems and repairs
- Working within Health & Safety policies and procedures and making improvements
- Working with specialist equipment, such as programmable machines
- Ensuring there is continuous cover of the machinery in case of breakdowns
- Utilisation of the appropriate tools required to complete each task such as a lathe, milling machine, surface grinder and power tools e
- Commission modifications and alterations to existing plant and equipment, to improve line efficiencies
Knowledge, skills and qualifications required:
Essential
- Proactive approach, displaying a can do/ will attitude
- Time Served Engineer – NVQ Level 3 in Mechanical Engineering or similar
- Working with pneumatics
- Mechanically biased with some demonstrable electrical experience
- Experience in mechanical drives and mechanical set up of complex drive systems
- Experience of maintaining machine shop facilities (ie.;– lathe, miller, pillar drills etc)
- Ability to interpret drawings, blue-prints, manuals, sketches or verbal instructions
- Experience of working in manufacturing industry would be an advantage
- Work flexibly to support colleagues within both engineering and other departments.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Possess detailed analytical and problem solving skills
- Self-motivated and able to work well in a team environment
Desirables – (NOT Essential)
HNC or BEng in the following;
- Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Production Engineering
Qualifications in the following technical disciplines will also be considered;
- BTEC Operations & Maintenance Engineering
- NVQ Level 3 in Engineering
- C&G Certificate in Engineering
Salary
- £30,000 per annum
This job is no longer available for new applications.
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