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Role: Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer
Location: Halifax
Shift: Permanent Nightshift
Salary: Upto 48K (Neg on experience)
GPS are looking for a highly motivated Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to work for a leading PVC manufacturer working a permanent nightshift. Reporting directly to the Engineering Maintenance Manager you will be a key member of the site team ensuring the production facility is kept running to maximum efficiency and output.
Key Responsibilities
- Deal with machine breakdowns to ensure that the site can maximize throughput and meet customer demand.
- Reactive, proactive and planned maintenance across a wide range of factory equipment to support plant uptime.
- Maintaining site services and facilities.
- Focuses on saving cost on maintenance work and contributes to cost reduction initiatives.
- Plans and manages individual and team projects.
- To ensure that Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental standards are adhered to including the requirements of
- ISO 9001, 14001 & 45001
Key Skills/Experience Desired
- Strong practical and legal knowledge of electrical and mechanical engineering/maintenance
- Level 3 electrical engineering qualification or equivalent
- Experience working as a Maintenance Engineer in a manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of extrusion, mixing & blending machines is advantageous but not essential.
- Know and can apply the techniques of Planned Preventative & Total Productive, Maintenance to improve machine condition, improve product quality and reduce downtime.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Welding qualification/experience preferred but not essential(MIG & Stick)
Able to read engineering drawings.
