Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer - Electrical Bias Job

Compensation Data

Grade C – £31,728.90 + £4888.01 as shift allowance 

Grade D – £35,443.63 + £4888.01 as shift allowance 

Mission Details

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias)
Job Category : Maintenance Engineering
Department/Group : Engineering
Location: Leicester Site
Position Type :
Permanent, Full-Time, Shift work

Job Description
Purpose
To provide a comprehensive, timely and effective electrical/mechanical maintenance service to the ProductionDepartments and the site. Through a computerised maintenance management, system (CMMS) theEngineering department maximises the availability of plant and machinery ensuring manufacturing operationsare inherently safe, effective and efficient.

Role and Responsibilities
Promptly react to equipment failure, diagnosing faults and making good.
Carry out planned preventative maintenance routines to the given schedules.
Identify reoccurring equipment failures; work with Engineering management to improve long-term reliability.
Fault find on various control systems e.g. conveyor, bottle filling, mixing, material transfer systems etc.
Work with industrial electric motors, variable speed drives and other starting techniques.
Interrogate PLC controls systems to diagnose faults.
Carry out minor modifications on various PLCs (particularly Siemens S7).
Carry out electrical installation work.
Work to safe Engineering procedures and site safety rules.
Carry out weekend maintenance cover when required, paid at over-time rates.

Qualifications and Education Requirements
A nationally recognised Electrical time served apprenticeship minimum level 3 or equivalent.
Preferred Skills
Multi Skilled - 70/30 Electrical/Mechanical.
Aptitude for process awareness, diagnostic and resolution.
Experience in maintaining equipment located in potentially explosive atmospheres, knowledge of DSEAR,ATEX.
Basic PLC fault finding and small modifications – preferably Siemens S7.
18th Edition.
Basic hydraulics/pneumatics.
Good written and verbal communication
Experience of working in a health and safety conscious environment.