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Zenith People are working with our client who are recruiting for an experienced, Time-served Electrical biased Maintenance Technician on a permanent basis.
The main purpose of the role is to provides engineering/ maintenance support by performing plant preventative maintenance, engineering support both during working hours and also out of hours support by working as part of an on-call roster (on call allowance when on call)
Electrical Maintenance Technician
Sunderland
40,000
120 on call
4% annual bonus
Split Shift (Days & Backs)
Monday to Friday (40 Hours)
The Main Purpose of the Role
You will be responsible for electrical/ mechanical maintenance, repair and fault finding of plant and equipment.
- Fulfilling the requirements of the facility CMMS to reduce unplanned downtime and works towards improvement of OEE.
- Electrical/ mechanical fault finding, isolation and repair of equipment.
- Providing input into the electrical maintenance and operation of plant equipment.
- Carry out evaluation and risk assessments within all areas of the plant to ensure safe working methods and environment
- Ensure that plant critical spares are maintained at the required level.
- Identify suitable external resource when appropriate for routing maintenance activities or ongoing improvement projects.
- Use SAP to raise purchase requisitions as appropriate.
- Working on plant improvement initiatives and makes recommendations to reduce unplanned downtime.
- Working with suitable external engineering services as and when required to ensure safe and effective operation of plant equipment.
- Undertaking periodic training to ensure that maintenance activities are performed in compliance with best safe working practice and current legislation.
Qualifications & Skills Required
- Formal Electronic/ Electrical Engineering qualification (Minimum NVQ Level 3 or equivalent) with at least three years practical experience working as a plant electrician.
- Experience of maintaining and fault finding on the following types of equipment; PLC control, Variable Speed Drives, Conveyor Systems and Thermal processing equipment.
- City & Guilds 2382 (minimum of 18th Edition Regulations)
- Familiar with the requirements of working within a GMP facility.
- Excellent internal and external communications skills
- Experience of working an on-call maintenance system
If you are an experienced Electrical Maintenance Engineer and would like to be considered for this role please click apply now.
