Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer 
£38,000 Per Annum
Bilston
Monday – Friday 7am – 4pm with a 1-hour lunch break
Full Time – Permanent  

Our client is looking for a hands on, mechanically minded with electrical biased maintenance engineer. Someone confident working on your own as you are solely responsible for repair and maintenance of equipment and machinery.

Day to Day Duties:

• Being responsible for the repair and maintenance of all our tools, equipment and machinery.
• Minimise factory lost time by organising plant maintenance and prompt attention to plant breakdowns.
• Arrange maintenance of Laboratory & office equipment with prompt attention to breakdowns.
• Ordering replacement parts.
• Carrying out preventative maintenance.
• Keeping records of all maintenance carried out.
• Outsourcing work when repairs are not able to be carried out in house.
• Report all equipment issues and faults for the requirement of ordering parts and process to relevant Departments.
• Arrange any necessary starting up/shutting down procedures of machinery and security of premises.
• Install and commission new equipment as required.
• Conducting frequent quality checks on equipment.
• Conduct routine preventative maintenance work, respond to equipment faults, diagnose break down and arrange specialist procurement of fixtures, fittings, or components.
• Respond to emergencies, unplanned issues, and repairs.
• Ensure health and safety policies and procedures are being always adhered to correctly and raising where this is not happening.
• Effective management and prioritization of your workload.
• Keeping a record of preventive and emergency maintenance conducted.
• Carry out minor repairs to building fittings and structure.
• To ensure that plant & equipment is in a condition so that a safe working environment is maintained in accordance with current legislation throughout the Company premises.
• Advising the Managing Director of alternatives or improvements, which if implemented would improve efficiency and/or reduce costs.
• Liaisons with other staff & management to ensure that good company wide communications are established and maintained so that highest efficiency is achieved throughout the company

To be successful in this role, the preferred skills are: 

• At least 3 years’ experience maintaining/repairing special purpose machinery as an electrically biased maintenance engineer.
• 3+ years of manufacturing and engineering experience is preferred.
• Good knowledge and experience within the business sector involving Polymer processing.
• The capacity to understand a range of engineering functions and procedures.
• Team Working skills to work cooperatively and consult with people at all levels.
• The ability to take the initiative as and when required.
• Good diagnostic and critical thinking skills
• The confidence to respond positively when under pressure.
• First Aid experience would be beneficial

What happens after you apply for this role?

Applications will be reviewed within 3 working days, however as we are receiving high levels of applications, if you have not been contacted after 5 days of sending your CV unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. If successful you will be contacted by a consultant to discuss your application and CV further. There’ll also be a chance for you to ask us any questions you may have about the role.