Facilities and Maintenance Engineer

Element has an opportunity for a Facilities and Maintenance Engineer to join our rapidly expanding team. As a member of the operations team, the Facilities and Maintenance Engineer position performs a variety of routine and non-routine inspections, servicing, installation and repairs of machinery and equipment under minimal direct supervision in the Aberdeen lab. The Facilities and Maintenance Engineer position must be proficient in a number of core business and technical skills including but not limited to compliance with established safety rules, code of conduct, and company policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine inspections, servicing, repairs, and replacements of equipment and facilities on the site
• Install new equipment across the site where required
• Participate in the development of current and future equipment
• Work through daily tasks and instructions from line management
• Fault find and repair equipment
• Attend department meetings and provide feedback on outstanding repairs/maintenance
• Understand and implement standard procedures
• Restore or replace equipment and facilities back to normal operating conditions
• Troubleshoot issues with equipment or facilities
• Create and provide technical input to risk assessments
• Provide technical input during SHE and Quality investigations
• Operate within SHE and Quality management system
• Provide technical input to SHE and Quality procedures
• Design, detail and build test rigs, fixtures and instrumentation for test laboratories
• Provide training and support documentation for newly designed equipment
• Integrate new equipment with existing assets, which may be mechanical and/or electrical and require some level of programming
• Decide on and implement appropriate design methods and protocols
• Lead and assign the work of others when needed
• Provide input to staff training plans and competence reviews
• Prepare material or conduct staff training when required

Skills / Qualifications

• Working knowledge of laboratory safety
• IOSH / NEBOSH desirable
• Educated in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering or similar
• Significant experience of working with hydraulic and mechanical machines
• Understanding of various instrumentation types for measuring: pressure, flow, temperature
• Low voltage AC and DC circuits and basic electronics
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a related field
• Experience using CAD software
• Ability to apply an array of engineering techniques in a rational and practical style to help examine issues and build solutions for testing staff
• Any related skills in programming and control applications would be an advantage
• Experience working in a mechanical workshop environment

Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’. When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development. Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”. All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work-related criteria and without regard for age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.