Reliability Engineer (4 on 4 off)

MS577 - Reliability Engineer (4 on 4 off)

Location: Bromborough, Wirral

Salary: £ Completive per annum

Overview: First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Reliability Engineer on behalf of one of our clients. As a key member of the Engineering Team, your primary accountability for providing safe and highly reliable equipment to manufacturing colleagues, achieved through a healthy balance of hands-on maintenance competence, equipment knowledge, analysis of equipment performance and strong communication skill.  

The shifts for this role are on a 4 on 4 off basis, involving 4 x 12 hour days (6:00am – 6:00pm) followed by 4 days off.

Applications from ex-military personnel are encouraged but all applications will be given due consideration.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Undertaking planned and reactive electrical and mechanical maintenance throughout the site.
• Participate and lead Root cause analysis activities on site and drive engineering lead improvements on site.
• Use latest techniques and condition-based monitoring information to improve and maintain all assets on site to their most optimum levels.
• Support and develop CBM activities and techniques on site for the purpose of driving overall plant performance.
• To act as a deputy to the engineering team leader.
• To mentor and develop engineering team and engineering apprentices through their engineering knowledge and expertise.
• Execute planned and unplanned maintenance activities to agreed standards, ensuring safe working always.
• Ensure all site assets are maintained to a high standard and meet sites requirements and are always available.
• Deliver mechanical support to all assets and projects on site.
• Deliver electrical support and projects based on electrical competent assessment and within your capabilities as validated by site engineering management team.  
• To ensure optimum performance of the manufacturing plants and equipment at best value cost and effective use of resource.
• Maintain the engineering standards across the site by providing functional support and expertise.
• Ensure a robust and clearly communicated safe system of work is applied for all activities that you undertake – properly risk assessed.
• To ensure engineering stock control on all parts used – booked out and accounted for correctly within the required systems.
• Coach, train and give understanding to production colleagues to achieve continual improvements in equipment knowledge/performance.
• Act with integrity always to build a culture of professional engineering and proactive equipment-focussed continuous improvement skills.
• Participate in external Quality and Food Safety audits and customer technical visits taking the lead within their department or area of responsibility.
• Ensure that non-conformances relating to Quality and Food Safety are fully investigated using root cause analysis to define effective corrective and preventive action plans.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Time Served Modern Apprenticeship in Electrical/Mechanical (Essential). 
• NVQ Level 3 in Engineering (Essential). 
• HNC or Equivalent technical certificate (Essential). 
• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (Essential). 
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
• Lean Manufacturing i.e. six sigma (Desirable).
• IOSH or NEBOSH qualifications (Desirable).
• FLT certified (Desirable).
• MEWP certified (Desirable).