Role Purpose
To provide day to day electrical maintenance of all machinery, services and facilities within Operations and provide manufacturing operations with technical support and pro-active solutions to engineering/manufacturing problems and initiatives to ensure production ability is maintained and maximised.
Accountabilities
- Undertake electrical maintenance cover for production to ensure that breakdowns and other issues are resolved promptly, and downtime is minimised.
- Utilise the Computerised Maintenance Management System to ensure that all Active Maintenance work is recorded and closed.
- Utilise the Maintenance Request Data Base to ensure that all Reactive Maintenance work is logged, recorded and closed.
- Undertake project work through from installation to commissioning to ensure changes are implemented to the plan and refined if necessary.
- Provide technical support within the engineering department, to other operational departments and external contractors to ensure that the best solutions are identified and implemented.
- Attend and contribute to team meetings once a month which drive departmental performance in order to support continuous improvement and sustainability initiatives.
- Follow all site rules relating to health & safety, environment and quality to ensure that we remain compliant with all legislation and internal procedures.
Scale & Scope of the role
- Major equipment, 12 high speed tufting machines, 1 shearing line, plus ancillary equipment
- Maintain operation for an average of 80k metres of carpet output a week
- Maintain site services including HVAC, Power, Fire sprinklers and Air Compressor
- Two shift rotation Monday to Friday – night shift on call out when required
- Support the maintenance and engineering team
- Fault finding as required on all inhouse equipment
- Completion of planned and breakdown maintenance in a timely manner
- Completion of tasks in-line with McMain (CMMS) and follow up of all documentation
- Commitment to health and safety policy, actively contributing to audits and surveys
- Maintain housekeeping and help to develop 5s within the workshop environment
- Identify and undertake personal development activities
Essential
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- A recognised apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering, typically gained as an electrical engineer in a manufacturing environment.
- Educated to ONC or equivalent in Electrical engineering
- Must be willing to undertake training as required
- Proven experience with AC/DC motors, 3 phase electrics, variable speed drives and servo control systems
- An understanding of control systems with knowledge of PLC
- Experience of fault diagnosis on control systems using schematics, program listing or diagnostics
- Basic knowledge of IT systems
Desirable
- Educated to HNC/BTEC/Multi-skilled NVQ level 3
- An understanding of pneumatics and hydraulics
- High speed tufting machine experience.
- IET 17th or 18th edition
- PLC programming and diagnostic experience
- Engineering Mechanical knowledge
Competency Profile
- The successful applicant will have strong analytical skills both mechanically and electrically, demonstrating a sound understanding of working on electrical and pneumatic systems
- Customer Service Orientation – Concerned to provide a prompt, efficient and personalised service to clients; goes out of way to ensure that individual customer (Production and site users) needs are met.
- Drive – Enthusiastic and committed; demonstrates capacity for sustained effort and hard work over long time periods
- Flexibility – Adaptable; receptive to new ideas; willing and able to adjust to changing demands and circumstances.
- Initiative – Proactive, self-starting; seizes opportunities and acts upon them; actively influences events.
- Problem Analysis – Breaks problem into constituent parts and differentiates key elements from the irrelevant or trivial; makes accurate use of logic; draws sound inferences from information available.
- Technical Skill and Competence – Demonstrates detailed knowledge and expertise in relation to the job; readily absorbs new technical information and keeps up to date in specialist areas.
- Teamwork – Co-operates and works well with others in the pursuit of team goals; shares information; supports others.
