Vacancy: Maintenance Engineer
Install, maintain, improve, and repair equipment, plant, services and installations ensuring production efficiency following best practice. This includes total preventative maintenance, managing breakdowns of mechanical, electrical, and robotic equipment (including software programming).
- Carry out diagnosis of faults, the maintenance and repairs to all types of plant and equipment in a safe, timely and professional manner and return equipment to operational service.
- Attend breakdowns, identify faults and problem solve with minimal downtime to production.
- Estimate length of time required to complete a job and likely consequences of failure to complete work within required timescales.
- Identify and escalate any activity that has the potential to cause harm or damage.
- Report breakdown root causes, equipment faults and concerns to management.
- Ensure all work is undertaken to a high-quality standard and adheres to all quality standard regulations.
- Ensure company targets are met in respect of quality of parts produced.
- Identify spares requirements and log usage.
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) schedules as necessary and planned work orders as required and provide feedback to develop the system.
- Assist with the moving, installation, repositioning of machines and equipment.
- Make full use of the computerised maintenance management system.
- Plan and prioritise workload to support production and ensure efficient use of working time.
- Log completion of work on all required maintenance management systems.
- Operate Forklift Truck and lifting equipment.
- Work within 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) methodology to maintain workplace to a high standard.
- Ensure all personal protective equipment (PPE) is identified, always available, correctly used and all associated problems are reported to management.
- Ensure all lost time, and minor accidents are reported.
- Undertake special projects as required.
- Contribute to continuous improvement activities.
- Quality control of work by appropriate reviews.
- Write reports and present progress at project meetings.
- Plan projects or subtasks so they may be tracked and presented.
- A solid understanding of engineering, mechanical and electrical drawings and information.
- Advanced problem-solving skills.
- Ability to plan and prioritise.
- Understanding of Health and Safety practices.
- Practical hands-on approach to problem solving.
- Excellent team working skills.
- ONC, City & Guilds, BTec Level 3, IVQ Technician Diploma or equivalent NVQ level 3 qualification or 5 years’ experience of working in a similar role.
- Proven experience of working in a high-volume automotive manufacturing environment.
- Mechanical, electrical or electronic background.
- Commercial understanding of the impact of failure/downtime on production and ultimately customer delivery.
- Abrasive wheels
- Fork lift
- MEP/Scissor lift
- Working at heights
- Confined spaces
- Cranes
- Manual Handling
- Spill training (beneficial)
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Teamwork
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At Ricor we recognise that being a diverse and inclusive employer helps us fulfil our responsibility to make a difference for our employees and suppliers. We seek to develop a work environment where we treat all employees as individuals, fairly and in a consistent way. We work within the spirit and the practice of the Equality Act 2010 by promoting a culture of respect, dignity and equality. We actively challenge any form of discrimination because of a protected characteristic: sex, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion and/or belief and age. We will remove unnecessary barriers for our employees’ seeking opportunities through training and development, promotion and career planning.