Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Elec Bias) in M6, Salford, Greater Manchester

Location: Salford, M6

Pay: Up to 50,000 per annum

Shift/Hours:

• Week A – 14:00PM – 22:30PM Monday – Friday then 8 working hours Saturday which are flexible and managed ad-hoc between the team who will be working in pairs.
• Week B – 12:30PM – 10:30PM Monday – Friday

Job Description:

• Execute hands-on planned and unplanned maintenance activities to agreed standards, always ensuring safe working.
• Ensure assets are ready to produce products that are of an excellent quality, despatched on time in full to the satisfaction of our customers.
• Ensure a robust and clearly communicated safe system of work is applied for all activities that you undertake – properly risk assessed.
• Coach, train and give understanding to production colleagues to achieve continual improvements in equipment knowledge/performance.
• Act with integrity at all times to build a culture of professional engineering and proactive equipment-focussed continuous improvement skills.
• Ensuring that the daily engineering activity plan is delivered to the satisfaction of production.
• Ensuring that plant history is captured to high standards, enabling equipment performance review.
• Ensuring that the DRM structure is supported appropriately by taking proactive actions.
• Ensuring that high standards to 5S levels are maintained across the factory, including workshops.
• Ensuring that both chronic and repeat downtime events are rigorously assessed for true root cause.
• Ensuring that the site is always ready for internal and external food safety audits (e.g. BRC).
• Ensuring that the site is always ready for internal and external legal compliance audits (e.g. HSE).
• Ensuring department KPIs and targets are delivered on time and in full.

Desirable Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Technical Hands-On Engineering Experience, preferably through recognised time-served apprenticeship within food manufacturing.
• Technical qualifications and competence in mechanical/electrical at a minimum NVQ Level 3 BTEC Engineering certificate/equivalent qualification.
• Broad Knowledge of Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Mechanical, Electrical & PLC/Inverter Assets.
• Skills and capability to logically diagnose and fault find on a variety of equipment/situations.
• Strong experience in ensuring safe working and safe systems of work are utilised and followed.
• Experience of risk assessing maintenance activity and controlling safe working practices.
• Experience of working on high hazard equipment & competent in undertaking safe isolation.
• Strong evidence of good interpersonal, communications and customer engagement skills.
• Specific experience of clarifying priorities to customers in a busy environment.
• Proven ability to get the best from a diverse team through a calm and clear approach.
• Ability to engage positively with production to ensure equipment release for maintenance.
• Experience and knowledge of Lean and Asset Care Excellence techniques – particularly root cause.