There is a requirement to provide a “hands on” Electrical bias Lead Engineer to drive improvements to our current production efficiencies, maintenance, and improvement programs to significantly reduce our manufacturing costs.
The role will implement and share a program of opportunities including best practices, team development, personal development and supporting the Group Engineering strategy.
Also, a key requirement to drive improvements in our site H&S through effective management, training & discipline of your teams and contractors across the site.
Strong ability to manage, drive and focus the engineers to provide suitable maintenance support at all times is a pre-requisite in this expanding autonomous role.
Shift pattern - rotating Sunday – Thursday 10pm – 6am, Monday – Friday 10pm – 6am.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead a team of engineers to maintain on site equipment, both reactive & preventative, to reduce downtime on equipment.
- Drive the engineering team to improve and better the current maintenance planning & execution system.
- Support, planning & execution of annual overhauls.
- Review downtime data and key priorities to focus engineering support.
- Develop stores and spare parts stock requirements for your area of responsibility.
- Implement a “root cause to manage failure” system – support Engineering Manager to roll out to teams.
- Lead shift hand over meetings and shift reports.
- Deliver team briefs and business reports.
- Provide stand-in support for Site Engineering Manager.
- Lead external audit visits through the breakdown procedure & guidance of Planned Maintenance.
- Hands on engineering breakdown support.
- Support the engineering budget through delivering cost effective maintenance.
- Drive Capital improvement programs through exposing opportunities, cost / benefit analysis reports, requests for cash and implementation.
- H&S Champion always ensuring safe working of your team & others.
- Contractor management & Permit issue management
Additionally
- To ensure that all work is carried out in a safe manner in compliance with the companies Health & Safety Policy and Procedures and to work safely with other employees.
- To protect the health, safety and welfare of yourself and others at all times through demonstrating the lead for H&S on site.
- To take an active role in continuously developing your skills and knowledge through self-development activities and/or through attending Company organised training and development opportunities.
- To ensure that the Company is professionally represented at all times, both inside and outside the business.
- To respond to ad hoc requests and/or take an active role in specific projects as directed by your line manager.
- To undertake any other reasonable duties as may from time to time be required by the Company
RESPONSIBILITY FOR STAFF/EQUIPMENT/BUDGET
- Interaction with site contractors
- Engineering Budget Support
- Engineering KPIs
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS/KEY RESULT AREAS
- Manufacturing efficiency targets
- Planned Maintenance adherence & targets.
- Hazard reports
- Mean Time To Failure (MTTF)
- Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
- Root Cause Analysis reports
- Improvement proposals with clear cost benefit analysis
- Team Development
Skills, experience –
- Strong knowledge of working with single phase & three phase systems.
- Competent in electrical fault finding in panels, 3 phase motors, inverters, relays, contactors.
- Basic fault-finding knowledge of PLC's.
- Good mechanical skills - knowledge of pneumatics, bearings, gearboxes.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
