Maintenance Engineer

Overview

Please note: we are only able to consider candidates who already have the legal right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we cannot provide visa sponsorship for this role. White Horse Plastics is a UK based injection moulding company specialising in the manufacture and assembly of components for the medical, consumer and engineering sectors. Our services cover all aspects of production, assembly & packaging. Our legacy lies in the automotive market, where we have been a trusted supplier for over 40 years. More recently, we have expanded into the medical sector and since attaining ISO 13485, have been producing millions of medical components a year at our premises in South Oxfordshire. We are also a biopolymer moulding specialist and have been working with a project partner to scale up the production of innovative materials for the sustainable packaging sector. With over 50 years’ experience (founded in 1973) White Horse Plastics has the single-minded objective of providing total solutions for their clients.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and repair electrical/mechanical faults that occur on plant and/or equipment.
• Further develop/improve the preventative maintenance programme for all plant and/or equipment (hydraulics, robots, ancillary machines automatic assembly).
• Validation of new plant equipment, automation and upgrades, arranging and liaising with outside contractors if and as required.
• Process/equipment troubleshooting and failure analysis.
• Ensure all items of plant and/or equipment is in good safe working order.
• Maintain and update PAT testing and register.
• Manage new equipment installation, arranging and liaising with outside contractors if and as required.
• Strive to improve the efficiency and safety of plant and equipment.
• Maintain a high standard of record keeping for all repairs and servicing of plant and/or equipment as required for audit, traceability and warranty purposes, in accordance with the Quality Management System.

Requirements

• Apprentice trained or formally qualified in mechanical and/or electrical engineering.
• A good working knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics and electronic/electrical automation controls. Some knowledge in PLC programming would be a further advantage.
• Qualified electrician with 17th/18th Edition regulations or equivalent.
• Logic fault-finding & problem-solving skills
• Experience of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM).
• General troubleshooting problems on a variety of plant and equipment.
• Must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Personal attributes

• You will be a team player with good communication skills at all levels.
• Good personal and operational organisational skills.
• Tidy.
• Self-motivated.
• Highly focussed problem solver.

What we offer

• You would be joining and working alongside a highly skilled and motivated team, with a fully equipped and staffed machine shop that will support you in your role.
• Typically, a 4 day/40 hour working week, which would generally be Monday – Thursday, but mutual flexibility on working hours is offered to suit the successful applicant’s personal circumstances and cover where additional hours or occasional Fridays are required to meet operational needs.
• 20 days (5 working weeks) paid holiday allowance, plus all statutory holidays – 28 days total.
• Starting salary £37,000+ dependent on experience.
• Company pension scheme.