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Maintenance Engineer

Consult
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 3 days
Location

Skelmersdale, Lancashire WN8 9JP, England

Salary

£32,000 - £38,400 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • A global manufacturing company is seeking a Maintenance Engineer for their Northwest site, focusing on automated production lines with PLCs and ABB robots.
  • The role requires an 18th Edition Electrically qualified multi-skilled engineer with prior technical production support experience and knowledge of robotics.
  • Responsibilities include improving equipment reliability, meeting production targets, preventive maintenance, and process monitoring using Statistical Process Control (SPC).
  • The position offers competitive pay, benefits, and optional overtime, with working hours from Monday to Friday, including two shifts.
  • Candidates should possess strong problem-solving and communication skills, with a preference for those who can read electrical and mechanical drawings and have experience with vision systems.

Maintenance Engineer

Monday - Friday, 6am - 2pm, 2pm - 10pm with earlier finishes on a Friday

Pay Competitive plus range of benefits and optional overtime available

My client are a global company that manufacture a variety of products worldwide. They now have an opening at their manufacturing site in the Northwest in their maintenance engineering team, for an 18th Edition Electrically qualified multi-skilled engineer to join them, working on several automated production lines with PLCs and ABB robots.

About the Role

Joining a small team on shift, responsibilities include:

  • Improving the overall reliability and performance of plant, personnel and production equipment and processes
  • Ensuring production targets are met, optimising output & minimising defects
  • Providing production line support in line with company goals and objectives
  • Tracking and reporting of process improvement results
  • Preventive maintenance
  • Equipment breakdown repairs
  • Establishing process conditions
  • In-line quality checks
  • Process monitoring and controlling according to Statistical Process Control (SPC) method
  • Analysing data to fault find and developing prioritised improvement plans for the platform
  • Maintaining and developing the delivery of finished products in line with cost, quality and production schedule requirements

There will be opportunity to work on continuous improvement projects to overall improve reliability and output.

About You

To apply, you should demonstrate the following qualifications:

  • First accomplished technical production support experience.
  • Electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, servo controls PLC fault finding
  • Electrical: 18th Edition
  • Experience of robotics (ABB preferred), including experience of automated assembly production lines would be an advantage
  • Experience of vision systems
  • Ability to read electrical/mechanical drawings

Personal characteristics that would help you succeed even further in this role include:

  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to work with staff at differing levels of the organisation
  • Team player
  • Versatile and a self-starter

If you're interested in the above role then please click apply or get in touch to discuss further.

Consult will endeavour to contact candidates within 14 days of application. However, if you do not hear back after 2 weeks then please assume on this occasion, unfortunately, you have not been successful.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.