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Job Title: Shift Engineer
Reporting to: Continental Shift Plant Engineer
Department: Engineering
Location: UK – Erdington, Birmingham
Working Hours: Continental Shifts, 4 on 4 off. 2x12 hour days (6am – 6pm) and 2x12 hour nights (6pm – 6am) – Permanent opportunity.
Supervisory Responsibility: N/A
Package
Salary £22.83 per hour with an average of 42 hours per week
Pension scheme
Life Assurance 3 x salary
Onsite dining room and vending machines
24 days holiday
Overtime available at enhanced rates.
Venatu are working with a household and well established brand operating across various countries and with a presence round the globe. They are a business which are involved in multiple sectors and have an opportunity to join their team in Birmingham.
JOB PURPOSE
- Complete permits to work and risk assessments, assessing all risks involved in the work to be undertaken
- Ensure safe systems of work are applied, adhered to and followed out consistently
- Support and achieve Planned Preventative Maintenance, Reactive Maintenance and Plant improvement initiatives, Installation projects, statutory inspections, factory services and any other duties required to ensure plant safety, performance, improvement and operation.
- Supervision of external contractors and service providers
- Interact with all stakeholders at any level within the business on a daily basis to resolve equipment & site related issues
- Be a point of contact for internal customers to resolve plant, equipment and safety issues & Provide technical support
- Interact with external bodies, suppliers and contractors to achieve the above
- Ensure critical spares are available and stock levels are maintained on consumption
- Ensure a high standard of workmanship is achieved
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide a high standard of multi-skilled engineering support whilst working safely either independently or as part of a team.
- Aid in reduction of production losses, energy and waste
- Diagnose faults or point of failure, repair equipment to ensure safe operation, correct function, reliability and equipment availability
- Engineer out equipment failures through continuous improvement
- Plan, co-ordinated and execute installation and plant improvement projects
- Provide support and input to plan & co-ordinate planned maintenance schedules, act on follow up repairs, source spares, complete and file documentation to audit standard
- To able to communicate with suppliers, chase outstanding orders
- Provide shift, factory start up/shutdown cover as and when required
- Specify & procure critical spares, be able to create requisitions to order
- Report equipment issues, follow up works & spares requirements to the Shift Plant Engineer and report in the shift report
- Maintain Housekeeping to a high standard
- Support work requests outside of the sphere of the immediate role
- Any other non-defied duties &/or responsibilities required to support engineering's operations
Minimum Qualification and experience required:
·BTec or equivalent in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering. Would accept ONC / OND or time served apprentice with experienced gained hands on.
·Experience of heavy motorised and hydraulic plant. Rubber and plastics industry with experience of rolling mills / extrusion / moulding / press shop.
·Experience of steam generation, boiler house operation and high pressure fluid systems. Experience with large steam boilers and steam distribution / high pressure hot water systems / process steam control.
·Mechanical and Electrical experience, ability to identify, safely isolate and work on equipment that have multiple sources of energy. Electricity, steam, hydraulics, pneumatics, large motors (1000HP or greater).
·Experience with a CMMS system and reporting.
·Must have a good degree of physical fitness and able to work in uncomfortable environment at times (heat, confined spaces).
·Basic machining skills (radial drill, lathe).
·Ability to weld (MIG, MMA) / fabrication skills.
QUALIFICATIONS
Must have:
•Experience of heavy motorised and hydraulic plant
•Experience of steam generation, boiler house operation and high pressure fluid systems
•Mechanical and Electrical experience (Electrically biased preference)
Should have:
BTec or equivalent in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
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