Maintenance Engineer

Location: Gravesend

Salary: 30-32K + bonuses and benefits

An automotive manufacturing company are now looking for an Maintenance Engineer

to join their team.

Maintenance Engineer – Overview

To safely and responsibly maintain and improve overall equipment effectiveness to maximise plant availability, performance whilst meeting quality requirements.

Maintenance Engineer – Responsibility

• To maintain site health, safety & environmental standards and company policies, be responsible for own safety and the safety of those around who may be impacted
• To attend and resolve equipment breakdowns within agreed target times
• To carry out and record works in accordance with the annual maintenance plan
• To provide engineering support to the operation and minimise non-operational time
• To maintain workshop spare inventory
• To support process improvement activities which affect Overall Equipment Effectiveness (product of Quality, Performance & Availability)
• To actively contribute to capital investment projects
• To achieve and maintain workshop housekeeping standards
• To adopt and behave according to the Business Attitudes, acting with consideration and respect for others
• To supply essential out of hours activity as required by the business, without breaching the Working Time Directive or exceeding the company’s 6-day maximum working policy
• To act on any reasonable request by the company or leadership team

Maintenance Engineer - job requirements:

The ideal candidate must come from the manufacturing industry as a Maintenance Engineer . You will also have the following skills, qualifications and experience:

• Relevant engineering qualifications or time served
• Minimum of 5 years in a manufacturing process environment
• Working knowledge of machinery safety
• Shall possess a strong general Health, Safety and Environmental awareness
• Maintenance and repair of fluid transfer pumps (diaphragm & positive displacement)
• Electro-Pneumatic (actuated valves, switches)
• Practical fault-finding knowledge of Electrical, Controls & Instrumentation systems
• Electrical drive systems - direct, geared, fixed & variable speed controllers
• Mechanical systems – gears, shafts, bearings, drive belts, conveyors Highly desirable..
• PLC checks and programme modifications capability (Siemens S7, ideally Omron and Mitsubishi)
• Compressed air systems, compressors, direct expansion dryers & filtration systems
• Knowledge of steam boiler heating systems
• Knowledge of basic hydraulics
• Root cause analysis methodology skills

For more information please call Sam Arnold on 0161 976 3540.

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