Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

REED Engineering & Manufacturing are working with a leading Engineering & Manufacturing company.

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer 

Job SummaryResponsible for the mechanical engineering maintenance activities within a medium to heavy manufacturing environment. Providing a proactive service which contributes towards reducing downtime, improving plant performance and reliability using preventative and predictive maintenance methods and techniques. You will be highly motivated, with a ‘can do’ attitude towards your work, as well as having a degree of flexibility to help meet business needs and market demands. You will be a major exponent of Health and safety practices, with a strong focus towards work quality and plant standards.Primary Duties and Responsibilities• Carry out both re-active and pro-active maintenance tasks, including VIM, VAR and ESR furnaces.• You will be required to understand mechanical systems and be able to diagnose problems/plant faults constructively and accurately.• Take part in the development, creation and implementation of PPM schedules to achieve maximum machine availability.• Record daily activities and creation of work orders within a CMMS (Pirana), as well as using the system to assist with any fault diagnosis.• Attend and contribute towards daily and weekly planned maintenance meetings/plant priority reviews.• Identify/specify and order critical parts using the companies system.• Contribute towards the control and improvement of critical spares requirements.• Ensure that all parts required are booked out correctly and recorded as necessary.• Work with specialist OEM service engineers where required.• Facilitate lean ways of working to minimise waste and maximise efficiency, ensuring departmental objectives are achieved.• To participate in training and upskilling activities to help maintain and improve your site and technical knowledge.• Undertake any other tasks, which are reasonable in relation to the skills, knowledge and experience.• Able to perform safety & quality risk assessments and work.• Adhere to standard safe practices and procedures, environmental and legislative requirementsSkills Experience and Qualifications• Some electrical experience/qualification or the willingness to undertake electrical cross skilling training.• Experience of furnace mechanics and their control system would be advantageous• Experience of furnace vacuum systems or vacuum technologies would be advantageous Demonstrable• Experience within a medium to heavy manufacturing environment, although applicants from other industries would also be considered.• Good fault finding and problem-solving skills essential – mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic systems.• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.